“Technology is not technology if it happened
before you were born.” While this statement sounds preposterous at first, it is
very true once one digs deeper into the issue. In this short video from Adobe,
Sir Ken Robinson discusses technology in education and how students and
educators alike are affected by the role of new advances in technology. Technology, he says, is all about how you
define it. While electricity was a huge, new technology for our great
grandparents, it has never been a huge technology for us, because we have
always known to have electricity in our lives. The same is with all the
technology used in a common classroom today. While the educators think these
new advances in the classroom are foreign, the students do not. They are used
to having technology all around them and in every aspect of their life. So to
not include any sort of growing technology or advances in the classroom would
only prohibit students from learning all that they can learn. The technologies
of today offer new possibilities to all students. I feel like most of the
general public agrees with the notion that technology is good for education.
Most people would agree that the good outweighs the bad and it opens many doors
for students that were simply not available in years past. A common
misconception of technology in the classroom is that it adds many distractions
to the field of learning that causes many students to not learn. While this is
true and should be a factor to consider, technology in education is usually
used purposefully and in a way that students will benefit from it. Why should
classrooms not use something so common to students today when it can help them
adapt even more to the ever-changing world around them?
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