All public schools have increasing demands for internet and network content that can benefit teachers and the students. Some schools are going as far as to providing devices for teachers and students to use at school and at home. Others with stricter budgets are continuing to use computer labs or are asking the students to bring their own devices from home. When devices are provided it is usually called a 1:1 implementation if each student gets a device. A 1:2 implementation would mean that there is a device for every two students, with a 1:2 deployment it is likely that the devices would stay in the classroom and would not be allowed to go home. Students in the classroom would share the devices. If students are asked to bring their own pieces of technology from home this is often referred to as B.Y.O.D or the Bring Your Own Device model. Once the students have devices, it wouldn’t do them much good if they couldn’t get to all the content that they are craving. It is now impractical to use standard cabling to connect each student to the internet. With standard cables there would need to be a port available at every student’s desk to access the internet. This is not only limiting, but also logistically hard to pull off. Using wireless technology might not offer the same speeds that a direct connection would offer but make connecting each student to the internet a reality. Using wireless in the K-12 environment will solve the problem of finding a good medium for students but does is create potential security risks. Because there is no port that you plug into you can’t as easily watch who is connecting to the network. Wireless is also a popular medium for hackers to try and access data because they don’t have to be in the building to...
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... but not least, Teachers have to teach with the technology. Improvement can’t be expected just by handing out a laptop to a student. Instruction needs to be guided to utilize the technology and make it so the student makes good use of the tools that they are given.
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In this article, Kieffer describes the concept of the whole "Bring Your Own Technoogy" initiative that schools are leaning towards in our society today. Basically, as schools are adding more technology, they are considering allowing students to bring their own devices to save money. Later on in the article, Kieffer pulls examples from schools in the northeast Mississippi area that have already banned students from using cell phones on campus. This article suits my topic well because it provides a good proposal for why schools should allow personal devices on campus.
Access – Develop and implement a staff and student technology model that provides “just in time” access to technology and resources i.e., improved teacher technology, modern lab facilities with flexible hours, mobile/flexible student technology including strategic access to the web.
The propose research will address a problem confronting many two year institutions in the present-day (i.e. how to best plan, design, and implement WLAN technologies). While WLAN technologies offer the benefits of mobility, reduced installation time, and decreased cost, many challenges must be met by institutions deploying them (Geier, 2005). These issues are related to security, speed, interoperability, and equipment selection, ease of use, reliability, signal interference, installation, and health risks.
Image a school with laptops available to each student to complete their class notes, teachers who are able to help their students through the screens of their computer, children who are excited to learn about numbers with the help of cute, animated characters. With the endless advancement of today’s technology, schools across the world have begun integrating various technology into their curriculum. These devices have the potential to greatly impact students in their learning. When a school opts to use technology in a school setting, the most important factors they should take into consideration are the benefits of using technological devices, the effectiveness of technology used
[1]- Ralph Stair, George Reynolds and Thomas Chesney. 2012. Fundamentals of Business information systems. 2nd edition: Cengage Learning EMEA.
Technology is becoming more and more dominant in our society.Everyday upgrades are being made and new innovations are being discovered. Technology is all around us whether we want it to be or not: it is the vehicles we drive, it can be found in our homes, and can even be found in the grocery store.Every place we look there is some type of technology.I believe technology has had a major impact on our school systems and is still impacting it today.There are those who do not agree, though, that technology has impacted our schools.Eric Gormly writes, “In fact, many theorists point out the overall impact of technology on education has been quite small, manifesting little discernible change in the classroom.” [1]Yes, there are some schools that are not as advanced as others, but many of them do have a significant amount of technology in them.I find it fascinating that so much technology has been incorporated into our classrooms, but I believe that, even with all of the positive aspects that are associated with technology, there are some negative and even dangerous aspects that should be taken into account.I will be sharing some of the equipment that has been used in the schools, how both the students and the teachers use the equipment, and also the positive and negative effects that technology has had on our schools.
...ass. School administrators should remember not to force technology into their curriculum unless they are confident in the student 's ability to learn and correctly recall information presented. When students have no desire to learn and are given tools to distract themselves technology hurts them, or rather their test scores, more than students who learn with book or oral based teaching because the absence of distraction. Computers and iPads are very difficult to repair or replace compared to books, and because most people are not yet “technologically literate” enough to perform basic tasks for the maintenance of their computer, then it would just be easier to use books. These issues create question as to if students are ready for classes to require computer knowledge when some have difficulty learning the material as it has always been learned for thousands of years.
The use of cell phones in schools is one of the biggest issues being debated today since technology is growing more and more every day. Higgins discusses in his article that Datla, a sophomore says, “Using technology in everyday life is not that new to us because we grew up with technology.” The current generation has grown up using cell phones, computers, tablets, and many more devices their whole life. Some schools have installed free Wi-Fi so students can get high-speed Internet on their mobile devices, but it comes with a few rules. For example, the
Electronic Devices in Schools -. Detroit: Green Haven Press, 2008. Print. The. Higgins, Josh.
Schools need to incorporate technology education into all areas of their curriculum. Students need to be able to understand not only the how-to of computers, but they need to understand when to use them, where to use them, and why they should be used. Many students only have a basic working knowledge of computers.... ... middle of paper ...
Internet access in schools has experienced an extreme increase within the last decade. By the fall of the year 2000, 98% of the public schools throughout the United States reported to be connected to the Internet (NCES, 2000). This is a reported 63% increase since the year 1994. Also in 2000, the ratio of computers to students was one to six, an increase from the 1994 ratio of one computer for every eleven students (Mendels, 1999). Aside from having Internet access in school libraries and computer labs, the abundance in individual classrooms has dramatically increased. This allows for Internet learning to be more readily available to students on a daily basis. Statistically over 70% of schools have this access in at least one of their classrooms (Mendels, 1999).
Andy Carvin states “ internet access in schools isn’t worth a hill of beans if teachers aren’t prepared to take full advantage of technology” (2000). Schools spend a lot of money on computer hardware and software as well as other technologies without realizing that many of their employees are unprepared to include them in their teaching and use them to their advantages. Educators often use technology as a classroom management tool rather than an educational one, allowing computer time as a reward for good behavior (Clark & Gorski, 2001). The problem with this is that students learn to use the computer for games and such because it is their reward instead of using it on their own time for educational purposes. This is teaching them the wrong idea. Margaret Honey, director of the Center for Children and Technology in NYC said it best, “The bottom line is, you don’t just put technology into schools or into homes and expect miracles to happen. The technology is only as good as the program that surrounds it” (Meyer, 2002, p.2).
There is no doubt that technology has changed the world in which we live. The world has been transformed with new advances in technology. This is why it is so important to educate elementary students on technology education. The use of technology in education provides students with technology literacy, information literacy, capacity for life-long learning and other skills necessary for the 21st century workplace. If students are taught how to use laptops to help them in their career now than it can increase productivity in the future. “America is falling from its once prominent position as the world’s leader in technology and science. Technology helps prepare students for a world where they will compete with the best and brightest individuals
Computers have always been useful, but not until recently have computers become useful for children who are twelve and under. Of course these children enjoy playing games and talking to there friends on the computer but due to new innovations coming out everyday children can now do a lot more then just play and socialize. Computers have brought school to the home. When children come home from school it used to mean school was over but today if you have access to the internet school is know longer over but just beginning on the internet. The internet has special educational sites that children can visit and learn from. Besides that children actually can have contact with there personal teacher from school. A new invention called the “Mobile Author can be used by human instructors either from a computer or a mobile phone to create their own Intelligent Tutoring Systems and to distribute them to their students. Students can also use any computer or mobile phone to have access to theory and tests.” (Source 2, Journal) Homework, notes, review assignments can now be given over the internet by the child’s teacher from there school. “Instructors can monitor their students; progress and communicate with their students during the course.” (Source 2, Journal) Children can learn new information on the internet and they are able to review and get extra help on things they don’t understand. If a child realizes that they do not understand something when they get home, they know longer have to wait to go in to school for extra help, but they now can communicate with there teacher online or they can go to an internet tutoring system which will give them just as much help as being in a regular classroom.