The Negative Effects Of Educational Technology In Children's Future And Education

Educators continue to integrate educational technology into classrooms and schools across the globe. Despite Albert Einstein 's belief that “our technology has exceeded our humanity” (qtd. in Makovsky), leading some to believe technology is detrimental to a child’s future and education, it is evident that technology has advantageously contributed to the education system by creating opportunities for parents, teachers, and students to connect with each other and the educational program. A technological controversy today is technology’s usage in education. Christine Olmstead claims “students who have parents who are actively involved in their education have higher grades and test scores, enroll in higher-level programs, graduate from high

Overcoming the barrier of different learning styles within a standard classroom has been a significant issue for some time now and teaching methods in connection to technology have long been up for debate. But, by utilizing technology’s many usages, a teacher can better connect with individual students and encourage their individual learning styles. A study over a new technological software, the Curriculum Customization Service (CCS), designed to connect teachers to varying academic resources, customizing them for the teacher, conducted by Mimi Recker, Lei Ye, Andrew Walker, Heather Leary, and Min Yaun, found that “at the end of the deployment year, teachers in the impact study reported significant increases in their awareness of other...teachers’ practices and in their frequency of using interactive resources in their lesson planning and classroom teaching” (372). The CCS demonstrates a connection between professionals, resulting in more interactive teaching practices more fitting to their individual students. Still, some teachers discourage technology in the classroom for fear of cognitive offloading, the tendency to rely on the internet for memory-aid. Memorization has long been an active part of education due to the intention of scholars to standardize knowledge. Some worry that the use of technology will encourage students to “cease to exercise

In today’s workplace, creativity is a valued skill. Sadly, as Sternberg states, creativity is “harder to find in older children and adults because their creative potential has been suppressed by a society that encourages intellectual conformity” (qtd. in Ye 28). By implementing educational technology, intelligence no longer needs to conform to one standard. Instead, technology can cultivate coursework to connect to the student 's individuality and encourage higher-level thinking skills to become the focus of the classroom. A study by Hye-Jeong Kim, Ji Hyeon Park, Sungae Yoo, and Hyeoncheol Kim, dealing with the practice of innovative technologies in the classroom to inspire discussion that improves students’ understanding, stimulates their creativity, and allows them to better express and communicate their ideas through drawing, discovered that “the treatment group revealed a higher creativity score than the control group...These students also demonstrated generally deeper information processing... [and] significantly higher on Originality, Abstractness of Title, and Elaboration” (216). Technology supplies the opportunities for the school to harness higher-level thinking processes and forge a generation with the abilities needed to innovate and create a better world for humanity. Nevertheless, one must not forget that technology’s innumerous attributes and applications go beyond educational