Personal Narrative Analysis

With my growing experience in the modern day educational system, I have developed many deep opinions towards my education. The gripes that all students make about homework and tests are expected from a student like me, but obviously my list is ever-changing with the constant reforms towards a vast technological society. As computer’s roles rapidly grow in our society, our education system must also rapidly adapt to the changes. As a result, the integration of one-to-one technology here at Jefferson High School has only complicated my learning and fueled the fire to anxiety built by school. In addition to the technology upswing here at Jefferson High School, my classes have become solely about taking me to the next level in my life. The push

If schooling was used to its highest potential, then these pointless anxiety builders would be nullified, because practical learning for society has no standardized tests. In the real world, there are no scores given to you in order to separate the successful from the poor. These same tests also help high schools separate “gifted” students and those students who struggle academically. Programs like “Gateway To College” that garner students that “were all high school dropouts, kids who had walked out or been tossed out of their previous schools, kids with attitude problems, behavioral problems, drug or alcohol problems, [and] kids whose teachers and families had often marked them off as hopeless losers” may never exist without the constant guiding through of students in need (Broder 158). Programs alike the “Gateway To College”, also become quite successful in “[making] high school education more rigorous and ease the transition from high school to college or the workplace”, as 71 percent “successfully completed” the program (Broder 158-159). These same programs also further prove that high school students can successfully complete a course with a more societal-friendly

According to Todd Gitlin, he estimates, technology users see at minimum “160 short units of mass-mediated [messages] per day”, not including the many forms not associated with an hour of watching television (Gitlin 155-156). This outrageous exposure to many forms of disorderly media aimed towards the minds of sponge-like individuals, is unnecessary. Synthesize the number of computers in a high school and this leads to a classroom full of unwanted distractions. Even more prevalent, electronical assignments and due dates have come increasingly more powerful. Seldom do I go through a class period, let alone a whole school day, where I do not use my Chromebook. The growing influences in the way we use technology in a learning environment has become less helpful as technology