The Effects of Technology in Education

Now days, all around us are full with computers and gadget. As we know the technology makes our live more easily. We use technology in every aspect of our daily activities. Technology can use by all generation, for example gadget can used by the 3 years old children until 90 years old man. Technology can use for education, healthy, economic and so on.  When technology is used as a tool in the educational part especially in classroom, it enhances students learning ability. Technology should assist out teachers with helping out students. Teachers and educators use to teach our students how to use technology and now we are using technology to improve academic achievement.

Technology plays a very important role in part of the change in our schools as it relates to student achievement. As students are introduced to technology it will widen the range of students selections as they learn. Implementing technology in the classroom will really make a difference in our children lives for the future. Technology tools and resources has become an essential part of the learning process which is a part of the outcome of successful academic achievement. Our children are our future and what we teach them today will reflect how this world will run tomorrow. So we should give our children all the tools they need to succeed and be great citizens in the world today, tomorrow and centuries from now.

The Positive and Negative Effects of Technology in Education

As we know, technology has been used in the classroom for over 20 years and it gives positive and also negative effect for the student. For student in 1990 they don’t know how to use internet as well as the students in 2010 does. But the student in 2010 to easy to give up to find the math quiz and use the calculator to solve the multiplication quiz than the student in 1990 does. There are also the example of positive effect and negative effect of technology in education.

Researchers have proven that technology motivates our students and they are more positive toward school activities. Lumley (1991) stated, "That students in traditional classrooms become bored if tasks are too easy and frustrated when they are too difficult". When technology is used as a tool to strengthen our students and connected with activities to build on their strengths it motivates our students to learn and succeed. Evidence indicates that when used effectively, "technology applications can support higher-order thinking by engaging students in authentic, complex tasks within collaborative learning contexts" (Means, Blando, Olson, Middleton, Morocco, Remz, & Zorfass, 1993).

Technology is something that our children are interested in mastering. A report by the US Dept. of Education (1995) related that students felt that the use of technology made them fell smarter and empowered them with knowledge that others didn't have. When given instructions through computers it allows the students to be in control of the learning process. Technology enhances students learning ability. Technology is not transformative on its own. Instead of focusing on isolated, skills-based uses of technology, schools should promote the use of various technologies for sophisticated problem-solving and information-retrieving purposes (Means & Olson, 1995). Computers and the internet are technological tools that are utilized in the classroom and enhance the students learning ability. Technology in the classroom help students develops skills that will help them be more effective in today's world. Research indicates that students that utilize technological tools in the classroom are more motivated and shows better organizational skills.

According to the Software Publisher's Association (1994) study, research found that:

* Educational technology has a significant positive impact on achievement in all subject areas, across all levels of school, and in regular classrooms as well as those for special-needs students.

* Educational technology has positive effects on student's attitudes.

* The degree of effectiveness is influenced by the student population, the instructional design, the teacher's role, how students are grouped, and the levels of student access to technology.

* Technology makes instruction more student-centered, encourages cooperative learning, and stimulated increased teacher/student interaction.

* Positive changes in the learning environment evolve over time and do not occur quickly.

In the other side, technology has made it so that virtually any student can be a good student without any effort at all. In our day and age, the key to success within the classroom has become being able to search Google or download the right apps. Now, with the right apps a C student can easily become an A student without becoming any smarter. The idea of getting away with doing just enough is now adopted by the majority of our youth and is being condoned by equipping students with more and more technology. Schools are equipping students with technology in hopes off it aiding them to learn quicker and more efficiently; but it has been the total opposite with technology becoming the victim of humans natural instinct to find a short cut. The student also can share any things using technology such as picture, movie, and games until their own activities. But they also can share a porn picture or a porn video with their friends using internet. The technology also makes our student become the lazy generation because they think we can do anything by using technology. For example they use calculator to count the easy math, they use translate application to translate the text, they copy-paste their friends homework and so on.

 In addition, technology has many positive effects for education but the positive always has with negative effect in education the win-win solution of this is the teachers and the student parents need to monitor their student in using technology in their school or at home.

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