Technology In Neil Postman's Virtual Students, Digital Classroom

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Technology has come a long way and a lot of people are using it, but how does it affect most students and their education today. Each student can use computers to help them find anything to research. Students can use technology to help them learn more on a subject and can interact with it; therefore, it will help the students that do not know what technology is and to get them to learn it easier.
Teachers can use technology like projectors to show students what they will be learning today. Projectors can be a good source of technology for displaying something on the board for the entire class to view; when students are using a projector in class they can find videos about learning a subject online for them to watch. In his article “Virtual Students, Digital Classrooms” Neil Postman claims that “in the sense that people …show more content…

Students can use research techniques online for anything they need help on with the technology that they have at school; therefore, when students need help they have to use a computer to find answers whenever a teacher is busy and cannot get to them in time which means they will not be able to help the student if he/she needs their attention. Postman further observes, “The goal of giving people greater access to more information faster, more conveniently an in more diverse forms was the main technological thrust of the nineteenth century” (378). Meaning that with what people use in the future has impacted on everyday life to just access thing faster than before; therefore, giving them Students can also use anything the teachers give them like an iPad that has learning games on it for the students to use which will help them in another way with it being said, it can make learning a lot easier for students, so they won’t feel frustrated when given an assignment via paper from the