Should Computers Be Allowed in the Classroom
Introduction
Today, professors at colleges all around the country are asking the same question. They are wondering whether laptops in the college classroom actually facilitates a student’s ability to learn or rather it distracts them from the lesson being taught. Laptops were originally considered to be "a small niche market" and were thought suitable mostly for specialized field applications such as the military, the Internal Revenue Service, accountants and sales representatives. But today, there are already more laptops than desktops in businesses, and laptops are becoming obligatory for student use and more popular for general use.
The conflict lies in that a majority of college professors believe that allowing students to use laptop computers to perform academic assignments in the classroom environment negatively affects their in-class performance more so than it benefits. These individuals will say that laptops distract a bulk number of students and will draw their attention away from the instructors. Others will say that allowing students to use laptops in the classroom engages and assists them while supplying equal access to technology, as well as help cultivate computer skills that will be useful once they enter the workforce. Professors from both sides of this issue provide good arguments to support their opinion, and I have therefore established a solution taking in respect the downsides from those against laptop usage, and the benefits from those who approve of them, which should indefinitely satisfy both sides.
Methods of Research My plan for this report was to avoid a biased solution by reading articles from both sides of the issue. I searched various databases, online articles, and experimental results. There are many articles pertaining to my topic because this issue is becoming more of a problem each day due to the gradual progressiveness of technological reliance in today’s society. I choose to focus my results on one article that was for
Today, professors at colleges all around the country are asking the same question. They are wondering whether laptops in the college classroom actually facilitates a student’s ability to learn or rather it distracts them from the lesson being taught. Laptops were originally considered to be "a small niche market" and were thought suitable mostly for specialized field applications such as the military, the Internal Revenue Service, accountants and sales representatives. But today, there are already more laptops than desktops in businesses, and laptops are becoming obligatory for student use and more popular for general use.
The conflict lies in that a majority of college professors believe that allowing students to use laptop computers to perform academic assignments in the classroom environment negatively affects their in-class performance more so than it benefits. These individuals will say that laptops distract a bulk number of students and will draw their attention away from the instructors. Others will say that allowing students to use laptops in the classroom engages and assists them while supplying equal access to technology, as well as help cultivate computer skills that will be useful once they enter the workforce. Professors from both sides of this issue provide good arguments to support their opinion, and I have therefore established a solution taking in respect the downsides from those against laptop usage, and the benefits from those who approve of them, which should indefinitely satisfy both sides.
Methods of Research My plan for this report was to avoid a biased solution by reading articles from both sides of the issue. I searched various databases, online articles, and experimental results. There are many articles pertaining to my topic because this issue is becoming more of a problem each day due to the gradual progressiveness of technological reliance in today’s society. I choose to focus my results on one article that was for