Since I was young I can always remember writing everything down by hand and it was the only effective way to take notes, but as the years went on technology advanced and I saw more people doing taking notes differently, yet I couldn’t change the way I was used to taking notes. In my little hometown in Cuba, we were taught to write the most important things down and then review them for any test. As I grew up I got so used to that style that to this day I still follow that habit since they have gotten me far in all of my tests and classes. I have come to understand that to get better, you have to work harder. In the article “Attention, Students: Put Your Laptops Away”, the author James Doubek expresses the differences between writing down notes and typing them on a laptop or tablet. Doubek says students using laptops tend to “take verbatim notes”(2) and “write down as much of the lecture”(2) these students write down anything the professor says instead of …show more content…
The article is all based on one experiment he read about and then gives us the facts from the study instead of researching more about the experiment to give the reader more details of the topic; since he doesn’t take into account that most of the college students are his audience and almost all of them do use their laptops on a daily basis to take notes. However, Doubek lets us know that technology is improving more and more everyday which will assist students using devices to take notes on mentioned devices and hopefully help as much as the hand-taking notes
What I use to start my paper is what I use when I finish my paper. I use Microsoft Word as my main source of writing my drafts. My secondary method is writing done interesting facts and statements I found during my research that I want to come back to when I am typing the rough draft. I find that writing important things down helps with my time efficiency and keeps me more focused on my research, instead of copy, pasting, and switching screens each time. I believe writing a rough draft with our advancement of technology a waste of time for me, and I choose to use Word for my drafts. It is neatly presented for proofreading. My handwriting is not the best, and I feel that it is easier to read off of a computer screen than reading messy handwriting. Not to mention that Word does a large amount of proofreading for you. Today, everyone is so used to reading off of a computer screen that it has become natural, but depending on who can proofread my paper, it can be right on the screen or from a hard copy. I do believe I work more efficient typing than any other method I used in the past.
In addition, textbooks are heavy to carry around and it takes longer to find a page. Likewise with digital textbooks they are compatible with tablets, smartphones, and laptops; it’s much easier to carry around and affordable price. However, some people may argue that digital textbooks can be a distraction for people because they would not bother read anymore. The author and poet Dana Gioia argues that electronics alternatives may be a bad influence that will lead society to not read anymore. Gioia complicates matters further when she writes, “While no single activity is responsible for the decline in reading, the cumulative presence and availability of electronic alternatives increasingly have drawn Americans away from reading” (161). I think Gioia is mistaken because she overlooks on electronics being a bad influence; but doesn’t see the benefits of electronics. To demonstrate, most of my textbooks are digital, which I can easily carry my tablet around where ever I go. Also, I save more money on digital textbooks and are simple to annotated the text. Journalist Ellen Lee interview a student from Liberty University, and he states that he prefers digital textbooks because he can tap his iPad, opens the digital copy and quickly open the page. Nevertheless, he also like digital textbooks because it has a feature that allows to highlight and mark the
”Books will soon be obsolete in the schools...Scholars will soon be instructed through the eye. It is possible to touch every branch of human knowledge with the motion picture” (Thomas Edison). An idea that was destined for failure has now been made into the key source to get students and teachers more interacted while in a classroom setting. Tablets such as the iPad and the Microsoft surface have made this idea possible, showing students that there is another alternative to the traditional method which would be a printed version of the textbook. Tablets are portable computers that use a touchscreen as its primary input device, meaning that both keyboard and mouse are both physically located on the screen. Early Tablets were built to be used with a pen, today however tablets can be used with just one finger or multiple fingers with the support of multi touch input. Tablet have had a positive input on society especially students in school that are looking to get their work done in an engaging way and, not by moving a pen or pencil like it’s been done for decades. Tablets have proven to be the better tool for learning among students.
He gives the reader facts about the study that took place. Although, he did not find this evidence, he makes the reader knowledgeable of the findings. Some of those facts were… note-taking can be either generative or non-generative, which means that it is either paraphrased and summarized or it is taken word for word. The study, also, shows that students who took notes by computer typed a significant amount more than that by hand. James says that the experiment proved that students who did take notes by hand remembered a lot more than the students who took notes by typing.
With the rapid growth of technology in America’s society today, the use of computers in school classrooms has increased tremendously—an action that certainly has become beneficial to students, educators, and parents. The use of computers has positively skyrocketed over the past ten years. Not only are computers utilized daily in large companies across the world, but the everyday use in classrooms has also become prevalent. Using modern technology to assist school instructors with his or her daily lessons should definitely be regarded as a positive, acceptable method of instruction and not definitely does not prohibit students from understanding or critical thinking.
Over the past few decades technology has advanced quite a bit. The use of calculators, computers, and other techniques in many fields has increased significantly. In a large scale, technology is replacing the method of instruction in the field of education. Many people believe that adopting technology in learning process can increase productivity. However, David Gelernter, who is a professor at Yale University as well as a leading figure in the field of technology, suggests to limit the use of technology in the classroom in his article “Unplugged: The Myth of Computers in the Classroom” which was published in the New Republic magazine in 1994. In this article he offers well illustrated analysis which makes the readers to regulate the use of technology in the classroom. He thinks that the technology comes in a way of building strong foundation of basic skills. He insists that computers should be used to aid the learning process, not to replace cognitive thinking.
David Gelernter author of the essay, “Unplugged: The Myth of Computers in the Classroom,” used some rhetorical appeals but not many in his essay, whilst trying to logically persuade his audience that computers could be utilized in the classroom, but under certain stipulations. Gelernter has great credibility for speaking on education and technology, as he is a professor of computer science at Yale University, so he more than anyone should know the outcomes of using a computer as a tool while teaching. However, when it comes to technology a lot of older generations usually are pretty biased when discussing technologies advancements, Gelernter still had some very good points! Using computers while teaching our young children can be useful but with strict moderations; when, where, and why, because if not heavily monitored, computers could be extremely detrimental to the learning experience and processes for many students.
Technology, one of the fastest growing industry in the world right now, it is also a characteristic that define how well and smart a country is. Simply because the ability and potential to accomplish great things that make technology really important, all this is proved through the fact that technology change the way people do things in every major, from nursing to even heavy manufacturing in factory. And there is no different in school, technology is used in student every day’s life, the most common device that every school have is computer. Computer is a powerful device that change the way student study completely, it make study more interesting, easy to understand and also allow students to do more things with their creativity.
In the article, “Attention, Students: Put Your Laptops Away,” the writer tells the reader differences between taking notes with a laptop or taking them in a notebook. When taking notes with a laptop people have the tendency to write down everything word for word while others cannot help but click a new tab and get on social media. Taking notes word for word has been proven that you do not comprehend what you are writing down. "When people type their notes, they have this tendency to try to take verbatim notes and write down as much of the lecture as they can," Mueller tells NPR's Rachel Martin. After reading the article my opinion is writing notes in a notebook is more beneficial than taking them on a laptop. If I want to excel in school and
People are convinced that technology is an effective tool that will further learning. This can be true, but when you use tablets
Computers are considered standard in a student’s arsenal of weapons used to tackle not only school but also life in general. Computers have the potential to be one of the greatest assets to a student, especially when it comes to writing essays and homework, but they are being used as a crutch when it comes writing sentences with proper grammar, syntax and spelling. Students are becoming mor...
Typing notes instead of writing them out is better. Most people like myself can type a lot faster than they can write. This way when your taking notes, you dont miss anything the teacher has said. Also when you type notes you mostly like wont miss spell word because of your autocorrect.
However, the learning style that best suited my abilities was reading and writing. Based on this learning style, one prefers for information to be displayed in words. Individuals who possess this learning style operate and communicate effectively with words. This methodology of transmitting information from the short term memory storage (STS) to the long term memory storage (LTS) can be attributed to the read/write learning style. It encourages text based input and output in all its forms, utilizing the same skills for reading and writing in order to learn. Being a read/write learner demonstrates learning through the processes most commonly used. Having words is a cultural component of who we are and read/write are both important skills not just for the professional scope, but for the cognitive process as well. Read/write learning style stimulates the frontal lobe of the brain where higher level processes are held. Then in the left hemisphere, where articulation and comprehension for language is centralized, this learning style mobilizes activity in this region which consequently results to increased productivity overall. “Those who prefer this modality are often addicted to PowerPoint , the Internet, lists, filofaxes, dictionaries, thesauri, quotations and words,” ( n.d., stellar leadership). This learning styles is highly encouraged in education and other fields,
They also concluded that "as the human capital capable of supporting a system shrinks, eventually the time required to support the system will increase" (Sanborn and Prabhakar 362). In other words, whole systems become inefficient as people lose the ability to support it. This concept can be applied to lost handwriting skills and is illustrated by a study by Pam A. Mueller and Daniel M. Oppenheimer that found that longhand note taking was more effective than using a laptop because laptop use results in shallower processing (Mueller and Oppenheimer 1159). Shallower processing, in turn, impairs learning. Impaired learning is inefficient learning.
... all ages do not know how to write in cursive anymore. Some students may not know how to sign their name in cursive since it wont be taught anymore. One thing that many people worry about with digital learning is that students will spend too much time in front of a screen and keyboard. It is believed that these kids will have less of a social life and will be less likely to communicate through talking, but choosing to communicate through online messaging and texting. Though students have a variety of information at their finger tips, this can cause temptation for students to plagiarize. Devices such as iPads and laptops are useful learning tools, but at the same time they can be a huge source of distractions. While students should be taking notes, they could be browsing the web, updating social media sites, watching videos, playing games or other distracting things.