Gelernter's Argumentative Analysis

Since the integration of technology into education, technology has helped give students advanced opportunities, and a chance at a better education than those before them. Technology in the classroom can be a very useful tool to students, and the job of educators is to ask themselves if new technologies are helping students accomplish something that would otherwise not be possible. The answer to this question should always be yes.

Most importantly, the question that must be asked when a new technology is put into education, is if the technology is useful, and if it helps the students learn in new ways that were never possible before the technology. David Gelernter in an article for Time magazine asserts that “It’s as if the Administration

In this quote, Gelernter is arguing that today’s students are unskilled, and that arming them with technology, will be a complete waste of time and resources. Not only is Gelernter’s argument not true, but technology can be very beneficial to a classroom. By putting technologies like virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) into a classroom, students can experience and see things that they never would be able to experience in real life. In an article by Kris Kolo for Forbes, Kolo explains that there’s an app used in VR called Star Chart, where students can learn about astronomy by pointing their phones to the sky at night, and they can also utilize other features to learn about planets and space discovery. In another article talking about VR in the classroom, Marianne Stenger explains that VR can also be used to do virtual campus visits, where students can

According to an article by Saeed Ahmed and Christina Walker for CNN, as of April 20th of 2018, there have already been twenty school shootings in the United States. As reported by the article, “We're only 16 weeks into 2018, and there have already been 20 school shootings where someone was hurt or killed. That averages out to 1.25 shootings a week” (Ahmed and Walker). With this information on the rising amount of school shootings in America, shouldn’t keeping students safe be a main goal in education? Many educators say yes, and a tool that could be extremely beneficial to accomplishing that goal, is technology. In the same article by Michael Poh, he explains that biometrics technology could be extremely useful in keeping students safe while they’re at school. Biometrics technology would include student fingerprints, facial recognition, iris patterns, and voice recognition. These would help keep students safe in school, by making sure that no one who isn’t already in the system gets into the school with or without a weapon. Now with that in mind, it is also the job of educators to make sure that security in schools doesn’t become a burden to students, and that it doesn’t get out of hand. If educators do not do this,