Technology in the Classroom: Help or Hindrance?

Ashley Thorne

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  • April 07, 2010

Jessica Custer of the Network of enlightened Women (NeW) has an article at NAS.org with six considerations/questions that our expanded use of technology in the classroom raises:

  1. Online searching may provide an immediate answer but students are missing out on a key part of the classroom—teacher-student interaction.
  2. Does access to Google in the classroom really help students learn?
  3. Does technology-based education teach anything beyond how to use the technology itself?
  4. Is banning laptops in class a good solution?
  5. All technology is not created equal.
  6. In this hyperlinked world, how do we know what’s true and what’s false?

Here's NeW's blog post on the article.

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