Technologies' Impact on Students

Technology’s Impact on Students In America and throughout the world, there has been a fundamental shift in the use of technology in learning and in schools In traditional classrooms students have lectures with a professor face to face and engage in non-technology based learning, whereas, in a more modern class room many different forms of technology are incorporated into learning. There are benefits to the reliance on technology, as well as potential pitfalls. There are many positive educational aspects directly tied to the addition of technology in schools. For example, personal devices that allow students access to a wider range of knowledge throughout the world and increased connectivity to educational resources are just two of the many potential educational aids that will be discussed in this paper. As students and teachers in the scholastic world enter this new age of technology, concerns have arisen about some potential problems. Some technologies such as cell phones, laptops, and personal computers may bring about certain types of harm. Students can now find almost any obscure bit of information or data, and some of this information may not be wholesome or age appropriate. Plagiarism and the dramatic increase of cyber-bullying also cause concerns over the safety of the Internet. In this paper the potential pros and cons will be discussed and examined. Over the last decade, cell phones have become steadily more prevalent as the communication device of choice instead of land line telephones, according to the United Nations telecom agency “there were about 6 billion subscriptions by the end of 2011 – roughly one for 86 of every 100 people.” (Goldberg) Technology in cell phones have shown amazing growth over the past years, resulting in such added new features as, texting, email, video and picture messaging, cameras, and access to Internet. These new features add a new level of difficulty for teachers, not only to reach a student, but also to keep their

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