In this reading we learned about how technology is changing our entire society as a whole. I found it extremely interesting to learn what the book talked about as being the gains and set backs of technology in the schools. Some of these I agree with and others I don’t. One of the losses they talked about is that the gap between students academically will become wider than before, especially for students of different financial standings. Some say that students who come from a wealthier family may have a higher advantage because they will have more opportunities to buy newer technologies, whereas those students who come from poorer families may not have the same opportunities and will therefore be left behind in the dust. Another negative to allowing so much technology in the classroom is that students will loose the healthy interaction between two people. It is said that students might become too use to being behind a computer screen that they will miss out on person to person interaction with peers and others. It were these and some of the other negatives to technology that I focused on during this reading because it was something new to think about. Before this reading we mostly focused on all of the pros of technology and virtual classrooms.
As a future teacher, I found it helpful to really consider both sides, the negatives and the pros of this new way of teaching and the impacts it will have on our students and our society. And although I have not yet made up my mind on how I feel about this yet, I know that I will continue to ponder this idea so that I can make the best educated decision so that I may become the best teacher I can be.
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