week 13 article

WEEK 13

This article made me furious! This is what I mean when I say educators take a good idea and ruin it! Technology in the classroom does not mean students should not have textbooks. One student in the article stated, “computers are much easier to use than books.” This tells me that students still need books, possibly more than we thought. Computers can crash, and information that is so easy to send out is often easy to faked and misrepresented. I agree that computers are a great research tool, and that the information and benefits are endless. However, completely replacing textbooks is absurd. How are we to learn about our past? Examine the ancient writing on an extinct society’s hard drive? Writings and books are essential. I love technology, but I hate that education always has to be one extreme or the other. The white in the middle is the best part of the Oreo!