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Intro
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I want to start off with the question
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technology in the classroom is it better
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or worse for our students today and I
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want to kind of get your guys insight so
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let's see it thumbs up if you think
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technology in the classroom is more
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beneficial to students all right now
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give me a thumbs down if you think
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technology in the classroom is more
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harmful to students okay
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good to get you guys's insights listen
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little secret I must admit I've been
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teaching middle school for five years
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now and I have no idea whether
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technology in the classroom is the best
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thing in the world or the worst so
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example if I'm having students use
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cellphones to do some research I'm
Technology in the classroom
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always impressed when I see the kid
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who's got multiple tabs open they're
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cross-referencing sources and citing
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information all at the same time and I
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think wow technology in the classroom
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what a valuable tool but then you see
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the kid who's streaming Netflix or
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literally doing a tick-tock mid class
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and I think wow technology in the
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classroom what a needless distraction
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this is the problem right if my job as
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an educator is to do what's best for my
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students in terms of technology I don't
The problem
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know what's best for my students so I
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did what everyone what the question does
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I googled it right
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long story short googling did not go
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well kind of muddied the waters turns
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out if you google technology in
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education you're gonna find hundreds of
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articles that can convincingly argue
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both sides from every angle so
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admittedly no help there
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but the key takeaway is this topics
The key takeaway
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debatable right and if it's debatable
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despite the countless and noble elements
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and pissing missing pieces to the puzzle
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there are three things that we know to
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be true about technology and regards our
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students number one we know that
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technology can be dangerous right
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schools face things like cyber bullying
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it can bring problems out of the
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classroom into the classroom whether it
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be academic dishonesty right it can
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technology can make it easier to cheat
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that's true and
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recent evidence suggests that technology
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can even mimic symptoms of addiction
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which is concerning for a lot of reasons
Technology can be dangerous
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but either way we know that technology
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is a minefield and we got to be careful
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the second thing we know technology can
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be infinitely valuable it can advance
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student learning in a way that no
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teacher or school could ever replicate
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it can act as a vast reservoir of
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information that not only can turn any
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expert into a layman or any layman into
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an expert but can do so with a few short
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flips of the thumb right so number two
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we know technology can be infinitely
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beneficial so if you keeping score at
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home we are tied up it's one to one we
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know technology is good we know
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technology is bad and admittedly we're
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no closer to answering our question but
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the third point that we know to be true
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about technology helps clear it up a
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little bit third thing that we know is
Technology isnt slowing down
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that technology isn't slowing down in
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fact it's speeding up it's safe to say
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that technology isn't a fad like bottle
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flipping doesn't have an expiration date
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it's not going anywhere and if that's
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the case and you're a student in 2019
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you were born sometime after the year
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2000 that makes 100 percent of our
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student body card-carrying members of
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Generation Z now Generation Z is most
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commonly referred to as digital natives
Digital natives
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and this term says it all because
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they're defining quality is the fact
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that they've never experienced the world
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without the internet without cell phones
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without complete access to the entire
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world and if that's the case then that
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means that to our students technology is
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less of a device that they possess and
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more of an environment that they inhabit
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right so hypothetically if school is
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experiencing cyber bullying issues let's
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say they may decide to ban technology
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because this the problem is clear
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technology has a negative impact on
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student learning and the solution is
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simple no technology means no problems
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but this solutions only
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temporary when you consider eventually
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that bells gonna rain right and at that
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point students are gonna leave the
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classroom they're gonna open their
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locker they're gonna take out their
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phones and they're gonna exit that
Conclusion
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safety bubble at that point students are
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gonna find themselves in a familiar
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digital environment with the same risks
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and dangers but this time maybe
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inexperienced and underprepared so when
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we re-examine the question is technology
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more beneficial or harmful to our
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students we realize that it's the wrong
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question to ask because it doesn't
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matter if technology is more beneficial
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or harmful to our students when we
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remember two things number one as
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schools and educators our
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responsibilities to do what's best for
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our students and our students have a
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device in their pocket that is both
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infinitely valuable and infinitely
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dangerous that's why it becomes clear
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that utilizing technology in the
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classroom is less of a choice and more
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of a responsibility right because as
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educators were men's horse and that
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means it's our obligation to prepare
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students for the challenges of being
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digital natives as teachers we have
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students practice skills all the time
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but navigating digital waters takes
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practice too and that's why it's our
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responsibility to be able to provide
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students with opportunities to develop
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their digital literacy skills and become
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lifelong independent learners thank you