Technology is the key to every day life in the 21st century and applying it to education seems like an efficient strategy to boost education levels in America. Although the author takes both sides on the issue, briefly addressing the issue that schools fear the take over of actual manpower from physically teaching pupils, the author he seems to favor implementing educational technology. The structure of the article follows the regular format of an expository, and the transition from introducing the topic to expanding it to other branches such as economy is well structured.
Education has evolved since primitive ages, and now we have better opportunities to improve our education system through the use of technology. New softwares have developed to keep students engaged in learning, so why not implement them in schools? I feel that with the efficiency that technology provides, more American schools should utilize the technology to gain the advantage other countries have. With the many observations included in the article, such as the 12% increase in learning demonstrated by students in Oklahoma using "Cognitive Tutor", there is more support to emphasize the benefit of focusing more on a technology based education.
Although there are also many obstacles in this line of education posed by persuading unions and schools to accept, if the government addressed this issue directly and offered schools to set up designated times for learning through advanced softwares, unions may look past their insecurities of loosing the old-fashioned way of teaching. All in all, I am not saying that teachers should be removed, but schools should take advantage of the modern technology that is available in order to improve the American education system and be equivalent to other countries that are ahead. If technology is proven to help pupils learn faster, why not use them more?
Sorry, "it" in the last line, not "them."
ReplyDeleteI quite don’t agree with your opinion about technology improving the educations. However I am concerned about the cost and the consequences of the student’s behavior when technologies dominate all over the school. Students can be distracted, and they might be able to learn the materials of the subjects easily, but can’t doubt that the new software system will actually improve education. Also, by installing the technologies to the classrooms, I don’t think that students can learn to approach to the teacher for the help.
ReplyDeleteYou have good structure and examples to back up your view point. I feel that some of your sentences are to long and they seem like run ons. Also you talked about the format of the article but not to much on the views or the article. Over all it was a good article with strong examples for your thesis. Good job
ReplyDeleteI enjoy reading your articles. You had a very good perception of the point of views in the article. Also, your use of statistics (12%..) was relevant to the point you were making. I slightly disagree with your stance because technology in some situations can divert us from what we are suppose to be learning. Although as you've said, technology has helped us in some ways, I personally believe that it is corrupting or generation and causing us to be dependent. But other than my own personal opinion, your article was well thought out.
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