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Integrating Technology Into Education: Summary

Introduction

            In today’s society technology has been about using the new and most improved gadgets to increase today’s luxuries and speed. Technology has been improving for centuries and these improvements have been added into the classroom. The classroom setting, especially in higher education, has had expectations raised. Students are expected to uphold certain standards and use these resources to the best of their ability. When talking about this integration many issues are looked over such as further research and possibilities that certain technology doesn’t enhance education.  By adding these technologies students and schools face educational benefits, legality issues, and social problems along with trying to keep up to date and face the ongoing research.

Background

         Education and technology integration is nothing new it has been going on for centuries. However with the turn of technology advacements more emhpasis is put on technology in the classroom because of all the latest break throughs.

Potential Benefits

         Being able to inegrate some of the newest technologies into the classrooms has it's benefits. For example learning can go above and beyond with a classroom full of students and computers. From Wi-Fi for all to simulated labs that allow students to see more than what they could before.

Legal and Ethical Issues 

        Technology always has its legal issues just like the education system does. Some legal issues are having all the updated soft ware and trusting kids not to download the wrong things. Along with this comes having to train and teach teachers since the median age of teachers is in their forties.

Security Concerns

        Everyone is always worried about cheating but their are more ways with technology. That is why schools are looking into ways to prevent this such as blockers and allowing the teachers to see all the students screens.

Social Problems

        Some people are worried about with our generation so into technology we loose social skills but infact we gain some. By using blogs the shyest of kids can voice their opinions and learn from other students. By integrating technology we are getting the best of both worlds.

Further Required Research

        We still have much to learn. Lewis paraphrases his thoughts and research into questions, “How do we come to practice and understand technology? Toward what ends and means is the subject practiced? What should be the nature of technological knowledge? How should the content of the subject be organized? How is the subject today influenced by its history? How is technology practiced across cultures? Who participates in the subject and why or why not? (1999).” Even with this we Still have many more questions to discover.

Conclusion

            Integration of technology has been an advancement in education and has both pros and cons as seen from different point of views. Along with that we are able to see the financial and legality and security issues that arise. Being such a universal topic, as well as, innovative allows for endless opportunities inside and outside the classroom. This allows for education to expand and raising standards making assignments and higher education increase in information and demands. Technology is a great enhancement to the classroom when used properly and in the right setting.

 

Intregrating Technology Into Education: Internal Citations

According to the Casey Green interview conducted by James Morrison for Over the Horizon he said, “Each new wave of technology—film following the Second World War, television from the 1950s onward, mainframe computers in the 1960s and 1970s, desktop computers in the 1980s, and the Internet and World Wide Web currently—has fostered great hopes of educational promise among educators and others in public life. Indeed, at the turn of the last century, Thomas Edison was convinced that film would supplant books as the primary mode of instruction by the end of the 1930s (J. Morrison, 1999).”

“Advances in computing, advent of the Internet and Wireless Fidelity (Wi-Fi) means that information can be disturbed and accessed almost instantaneously (Panigrahi, 2011, p.46).”

According to the Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education “An integral part of the schooling process resulting in universal computer literacy, computer aided learning and finally (Panigrahi, 2011, p.47).”

According to Casey Green “Finally, the campus community needs to address what I would call the "next wave" issues—those issues that are "on the horizon" and are moving closer (J. Morrison, 1999).”  

In his interview he continues on by saying, “Legacy issues and infrastructure are the ones we deal with almost daily. For example, one major legacy issue is IT financing. As nonprofits, colleges experience significant structural problems managing the financial side of IT (J. Morrison, 1999).”

Green continues his interview with talking about budgets, “We cannot amortize; it is difficult for campuses to categorize technology expenditures—computers, software, and so on—as capital costs, similar to buildings. But we need to find a new financing model, because right now, the one we have does not work well. As I said a minute ago, too much of the technology money comes from budget dust—the money we rush to spend before the close of the fiscal year (J. Morrison, 1999).”

According to Alex Wilhelm, “Your class is allowed to use a graphing calculator for the test? Write a program on it that contains all the formulas that you need and presto, you pass the test. Chance of being caught? Zero (2011).”

“Or just take a picture of your homework and send it via SMS to your friend, who copies it on the bus on the way to class. By constantly cutting down on data transfer times (from letter to telegraph and so forth) it has become trivial to share information that is not yet due, but will be graded (Wilhelm, 2011).”

Wilhelm shares a counter point to help counter act cheating, “To combat this, many classes are slowly ratcheting down their emphasis on graded homework, and pushing harder and more grade-important tests where it can be harder to cheat (2011).”

According to a study done on the analysis of blogs, “For the analysis the ICE (Ideas, Connections, and Extension) three level classification model was used. Findings - The designed blog exercise turned into an informal and formative type of assessment that scaffolds the students' learning, providing a reflective peer-to-peer technology-enhanced learning design (Anders, 2011, p.185).”

Lewis paraphrases his thoughts and research into questions, “How do we come to practice and understand technology? Toward what ends and means is the subject practiced? What should be the nature of technological knowledge? How should the content of the subject be organized? How is the subject today influenced by its history? How is technology practiced across cultures? Who participates in the subject and why or why not? (1999).”

 

Integrating Technology Into Education: Reference Page

Integrating Technology into Education

Reference Page

Anders D. Olofsson, J. Ola Lindberg, & Trond Eiliv Hauge. (2011). Blogs and the design of

reflective peer-to-peer technology-enhanced learning and formative assessment. Campus - Wide Information Systems, 28(3), 183-194.  Retrieved February 25, 2012, from ABI/INFORM Global. (Document ID: 2391067501).

Anders paper helps to give an insight on how the blog is integrating into the classroom. It also shows how ways of communication are able to be assessed by teachers to further the education of students. Along with this we are able to see how socialization between peers goes beyond the classroom setting.

Lewis, T. (1999). Research in Technology Education - Some Areas of Need. Journal of

Technology Education, 10(2). Retrieved February 25, 2012, from http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/JTE/v10n2

Lewis allows us to get an inside on questions that still need to be answered today, some of which we wonder if they ever will. Since he is on the online journal from Virginia Tech we can see how technology allows us to reach many different sources. Lewis goes beyond his own questions and pulls his own research into his paper and allows for us to see why it is important to research to get answers.

PANIGRAHI, M. (2011). PERCEPTION OF TEACHERS' TOWARDS EXTENSIVE             UTILIZATION OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY            Turkish Online Journal Of Distance Education (TOJDE), 12(4), 45-57.

This article showed us just how universal technology is becoming. It allowed us to see into different countries, along with our own, on everyday subjects including Wi-Fi. We got to see how even though it is a great asset to education it also has it flaws.

Wilhelm, A. (2011, January 5). How Technology Has Changed Education [Web log message].        Retrieved from http://thenextweb.com/insider/2011/01/05/how-technology-has-changed-  education/

This blog not shows how blogs are used in education but had a lot to say. Wilhelm showed us how education was being adapted and students were learning. It also played devil’s advocate and showed us how technology also increases cheating, because we as students have so many things at our finger tips with just the click of a button.  She also elaborates and tells that teachers counter act our accessibility to cheating by making tests and assignments harder, which in return helps to enhance our education.

Green. Interview. Internal Citation.

Even though Interviews do not appear on the reference page because APA does not consider interviews recoverable data it appears in my internal citations. The interview with Green gave us great insight into the way of education with technology. He also explained in depth how financial and legality issues become a big part in the deciding factor of what the schools have, and why some use older editions. Green answers his interview questions in a way we can all understand and since he himself is part of a school it gave an inside scoop which was helpful for understanding the topic.

Advantages of Technology in Education

Technology has allowed education to take steps forward. In science for example we are able to have simulated labs such as frog dissection and star distances. These allow for students to have more opportunities and are able to experience more. Blogs have also become a part of learning and sharing information as well. Being more connected and reaching an unlimited source of information are learning is expanded.