In 10 years, would you suspect that the trend for technology is going to go downhill rather than uphill? In a lot of ways, we are going to see it go downhill, because people are using it as a crutch rather than a tool. It is just a tool, and should be nothing more. But if people continue to use it for more than what it should be worth. I believe that is why so many of us hold a device at all times. It’s as if their technology is growing their food! Now more than ever people are living a virtual world and I don’t think that it is changing for the goodness of society or education for that matter. From a substitute’s point of view, how has technology in the classroom (over the years) changed? I can see that they are lacking skills, and relying on the technology to do it for them. Elementary grades are lacking the reading skills, instead of handing them a cassette tape, they are putting them on computers and basically saying “good luck! You’ll do great!” In all reality, they aren’t learning how to read, they are learning how to play games behind your back. When I subbed for the first time (in high school), the teacher had me use the giant stereo to show the band kids what their song should sound like. Now days I can turn the same piece of music from thirty different sources online. Times have definitely changed. Again, from a parent point of view, would you rather homeschool your children in order to save them from the influence of technology in the classroom? Heavens no. Do you know what happens when children are not getting their social dose of playing every day? Yes, that’s right, they become awkward and never learn how to use those social skills everyone seems to have. In order to help a child, you have to let them play. There are some people that I know who are homeschooling their children, and they won’t let them play and discover what happens when they trip and fall. They control every ounce of play time and instead only let them play educational games. Not that anything is wrong with letting your child play educational games, but I believe that it inhibits their social learning. They will probably grow up to be geniuses, but they won’t know how to talk to anyone to get where they want to be. Now, I don’t want you to think that anything is wrong with homeschooling, those who do it, Good for you in having those skills to teach the young levels, but I believe, despite the fact that technology may ruin the face of education, there is still a chance that those kids will learn from what not to do in the future. And that is to not use technology more than a tool. Do you think students would still thrive in school if the teachers didn’t rely on technology? I know they do. My sister lives in Virginia and her kids go to school in this really old place that physically doesn’t allow for technology to be supported inside the walls. Her kids are just younger than my youngest and they don’t seem anymore behind nor ahead. It in fact says a lot about the teachers there- they are using all the old methods to teach the new generation, and it works. You’re probably wondering how a school won’t support technology is even possible in this day in age. I will tell you what, this school is so old that the tax payers are telling the educators that it is a solid building, so why rebuild to accommodate the support of electricity? Again, because they see no need to tear it down, they instead work with what they have. Even if retrofitting the building wouldn’t work, it wouldn’t accommodate for the electricity of the building.
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