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Analyzing Bates Managing Technology In Higher Education

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“Education is evolving due to the impact of the Internet. We cannot teach our students in the same manner in which we were taught. Change is necessary to engage students not in the curriculum we are responsible for teaching, but in school. Period.” April Chamberlain said this in 2014 about the massive influence technology has on education. Technology has been progressing and improving vastly over the past years due to advancements made in the internet. Ever since the start of its expansion, people have thought of new uses for modern technology and how to adapt technology into new situations. Education is one of the areas that technology is changing, and it may not be for the better. As technology changes and is put into educational use, …show more content…

It is easy to agree with this statement, but it is also exceedingly hard to properly utilize the technology that is put into today's classrooms. The book Managing Technology in Higher Education, by Bates, is a book regarding successful teaching strategies for teachers that will or currently use technology in the classroom. “We discuss in several places throughout this book whether learning with technology is fundamentally different from classroom learning.”(Bates 2003) Ultimately, this book decides that classroom learning is very different from learning with technology. This book goes on about various strategies and techniques on how to teach/learn with technology. If school administrators and faculty took the initiative to encourage or make current teachers read this book, or similar books, then they could maximize the efficiency of teaching with technology. But the fact is that most teachers have little to no experience or prior training when it comes to technology. So most technology in classrooms today are not being taken advantage of like they should …show more content…

So even if technology becomes fully educationally beneficial, it will undoubtedly change within a matter of years. So when something such as chromebooks are introduced into the classroom, the teachers have no idea how to incorporate them into the curriculum competently. Teachers may be required to take refresher classes or courses, but there is no guarantee that they will be taught how to apply the new technology. Even teachers who are just coming out of college may fall behind in just a few years after graduation because of the constant progress of technology. Over half of all new teachers that go into education leave the profession in five years or less. It is also stated that the teachers who leave have higher measured academic ability than those who stay in the profession. Students today need the best educator possible to help them navigate them through the challenging world of education. (Zucker

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al.). Whether we like it or not, technology is here, and here to stay, so it is imperative that students are allowed to use it freely in the classroom, “78 percent of students believe the internet helps them with school work” (Lenhart, et. al.) indicating that students are not simply using the internet for their personal pleasure, they are using it to better themselves in their education. Technology is here, and here to stay, students everywhere are using it, and for even less than half of the schools in the United states to believe that it is causing their students to be in a “cave”, it would give those students an unfair disadvantage in life after high school because they would lack the skills necessary in the current work force.

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The change of speed in today’s society has increased dramatically, we are expected to process information at a faster rate. There is no time to sit and read new information, we want to be flooded with new information fast. While the technology in the world has increased most schools are moving slower. Most schools do not have up to date technology for their students to succeed in the real world. We can say this is a good thing to have less technology in school, because we can go back to the old days and research of the books.

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The Benefits of Technology in School in a Technological Society The Tennessean published Lisa Fingeroot’s article, “Nashville schools push for more technology,” in November of 2012. She discussed the benefits of technology that include, making learning fun with its inclusive methods, Fingeroot believes technology can improve the quality of education nationwide, and provides a very interactive and personal way for students to learn. She states that Kecia Ray, executive director of Metro schools’ learning technology department and president-elect of International Society for Technology in Education, has the goal of presenting a plan that provides technological access to more students. The first thing a reader notices to an article is the title.

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First, technology is key to the modern educational system. Without the use of technology, students wouldn’t be able to effectively research or understand crucial

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Technology has taken on a considerable amount of roles in education. Teaching a class substituting laptops and tablets for paper and books. Most people extol the ability of using technology while in school. However, the widespread use of information technologies force students’ lives to move too quickly and forces them into isolation. Technology has the world living longer and thinking shorter.

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Friedman a well-known New York Times reporter/journalist would say that technology compliments education for the future. In his article “Come to Revolution”, Friedman argues that online education is potentially better than regular education. He uses many effective rhetorical strategies to make his point. Friedman does a good job of providing background and referring to reliable authorities to enhance his own credibility. In his argument he uses the people he interviews’ credentials.

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A student’s time is usually very valuable with everything that they do, from having five to seven classes and maybe a job; student plan their whole week out. For me with my classes and job there is only about 2 hours to do my school work and with 40 min per class. If I need to do research I just hop on google and type in exactly what I need and it pops up. I only spent about 5 mins doing research in the comfort of my own home eating a sandwich instead of probably the whole 2 hours inside a library where you can’t even eat. I used the technology given to me by the evolution of science are teachers against the growth of technology, because if they are they shouldn’t be teachers.

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Jeremy Rinkel explains, when students are older and want to find a job they need to have technological skills and at least know how to use an electronic device such as a computer, tablet, cell phone, etc. In most classes homework is mainly turn in online by using Edmodo, and today the world revolves around technology and most people know the basics of it. People may reject this statement because what if someone has no clue about how to work with technology; does that mean the person won’t have a chance for a job because of it. Well, since it’s the 21st century and technology is all around it will be hard for people that have no technological experience to get a good paying job, but they can take workshops or classes to learn the basics. Besides of just having technological skills to have a good paying job in the future; not all teachers like using the textbooks that are given to

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Hi Bailee, I agree with you that we need to change the way we teach because technologies got more advanced and it would be helpful if we ultilize it in our teaching routine. Technologies can also help students be more engage in the classroom instead of listening to boring lecture. This will help entertain students while improve education.

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Technology creates new ways to help the students learn. Technology will never get worse in the future infact it will get

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