issues in training and stress for older teachers. This is a real issue and but a necessity of change.
Professor bans laptops from classroom for two reasons: notes are done better and are more engaging when written by hand, having to summarize, paraphrase, and prioritize; as opposed to verbatim which often occurs with the speed of typing on a laptop. There's not cognitive interaction. Two, is the distraction factor which is very real. This is not different than other distractions students have found in the past, daydreaming, drawing, writing notes, etc. this is a classroom management issue and leads more to engaging students with meaningful activities rather than lecture.
Author argues why teachers like Wesch and Hargadon are too optimistic about Web 2.0 revolutionizing education. His main argument revolves around Web 2.0's collaborative nature which is no different than project based teaching that has been around for years and shown marginal effectiveness. He notes that success relies upon teacher training and effective implementation of technology. This seems rather intuitive. Although in reality it is sad to note that, yes, many teachers will implement poor uses of technology and yield little success; but this is true for all teaching methods and should not scare us away from utilizing new and diverse tools and methods of teaching.
Despite widespread technology use in schools an abundance of free and easily accessed information, gen-y has shown decreasing literacy and writing skills, and poorer results on standardized tests, particularly with historical info and facts.
Author doesn't not argue, but notes improvements have been made where teachers were trained to integrate technology into instruction.
Teacher expresses concerns after implementing one-to-one laptops in her classroom
issues in training and stress for older teachers. This is a real issue and but a necessity of change.
now spending too much time on computer, cannot 'un-plug'.
this is a real concern, however, computers/internet allow for much more information and communication between the student, teacher, and parent that was not possible before. Need some balance/ experience, rules.