Should technology be applied in schools for teaching purposes? There has been a huge debate over this question and many articles have been released to try and motivate schools to apply technology as a way for students to learn all kinds of subjects, and most research done in this subject has been positive, so schools should really consider adding technology for the sake of making it easier for students to learn and improving school status. Schools have always been the same since the beginning, for example if you compare a picture of a school fifty years ago and one of present day, there is no change at all. The world is changing and innovating, and some people still can’t believe the only thing that hasn’t changed is the way students are being …show more content…
Many people think that if you just throw technology in a school the school will automatically improve in test scores and quizzes etc. but “This is crucial--administrators should make sure that any professional development or training offered focuses not (at least at first) on using various technologies, but rather on shifting teachers' thinking and actions.... Until this is done, the technology training is unlikely to prove fruitful.” (p. 27) and people agree to this because there are many protests against technology when it should be on teachers since they need to know how to properly teach with technology, if technology is not helping students learn it is most likely because the teacher is not doing an effective way of doing so. Furthermore, many people focus on the fact that technology is just used for school subjects and do not really think of the fact that some schools don’t even have the money to hire teachers so what might they use to teach students? Technology is what they use, some even say that technology is helping to replace teachers, According to Ritz, John M., and M. Lee Manning. “School …show more content…
Although this is a good claim, there has been research indicating that technology is not useless, there is proof that adding tech to everyday teaching increases student performance and schools are looking for this type of benefit because schools want a good reputation so more decide to enroll in that school. Furthermore, it might be true that effective teaching needs effective technology use in order to see positive outcomes. Some teachers will not provide that, but this can be a good thing since teachers are supposed to be doing their job and try to adapt in the different ways of teaching and when they are not able to do this schools will probably fire them and search for effective teachers therefore, technology use will be effective. In conclusion, even though there are a lot of contradictions in believing school technology can benefit students, from information found it is best to conclude that technology does have a big impact on schools therefore, according to researches on this subject. Me being a high school student, in my opinion it is best to use tech more since it is an effective tool for students like us that have complications on certain subjects and it has been seen that schools are trying to involve more tech since they obviously see positive