Consequently, she believes too much emphasis is placed on technology, taking away from the development of basic reading, math and problem solving skills. The underlying question that surfaces throughout this book is "do computers and technology truly improve student learning and achievement?" According to the author, there is little evidence to support the use of technology as a necessity or benefit to student success (pp. 105-106). The author goes on to suggest that students, especially younger students, should be carefully monitored and limited in their computer use (p. 110).
Argument In “Hidden Intellectualism”, Gerald Graff argues that the education system should allow students to take their nonacademic interests as objects of academic study. He believes integrating “nonacademic studies” with the education system will significantly help students develop academically. However, I disagree with Graff’s claim because there is no evidence to prove that Graff’s method will improve student’s academic abilities. Street smart cannot be learned in a classroom because it can only be obtained through life experience. Also, if student’s only studies subjects that interest them then they are being ignorant to the world around them.
This statement may be true for Ban and her friends, but any other nineteen year-old college student who favors speed and effortlessness who pulls an all-nighter for a regular essay would easily wait until the last minute and do the same for a research paper. Ban still brings a tough argument in saying, "Learning how to take what is already known and enhance it in a unique way is an unparalleled learning experience that we should not lose." This ability can be utilized in oral presentations and other essays that do not allow students to use the internet to enhance the work for them. The research paper can be a very useful tool in analyzing student performances and understanding, but there is also plenty opportunity for students to take advantage of electronic information and avoid all of the hard but important work involved in this type of paper. There are other ways of evaluating a student's understanding of a topic that are equally
In fact there is rare evidence that the opposite is true. However, this does not seem so important for 2 reasons. First, no one is really doing anything huge about it besides, some schools have already started to encourage educators who are musicians but to do not teach music at their schools, to volunteer their time to guide students to becoming involved with music and art. Secondly, much of the research which encompasses a different viewpoint than the creative arts is more useful than math, seems to lean more towards drawing a connection between the creative arts and other subjects, showing that the creative arts do make students smarter but that it is still more important to be good in all other subjects as well. The article titled , “Does Music Make You Smarter?”, which was published in Music Educators Journal brings up some important information regarding the problem.
Students do not realize that plagiarizing someone else’s work is actually stealing. The educational system does not teach this to students. The educational system should teach that you have to cite an author even if you just take their idea and do not use their exact words. The online companies that generate essays for students should be outlawed. This is making it where students that have a lot of money can easily get by with actually learning how to write correctly.
I would have to agree with her statement but argue that perhaps parents should ask for help on how to use the technology itself. Teenagers are not teachers by any means, but the amount of knowledge that they have when it comes to technology could make them geniuses. I know from experience that teaching an older person technology is not a very hard process. With a little time and effort parents Although, Goldwasser makes a valid poing in saying parents could have taught more to their children. I have to argue that its not the parents fault.
We do not call this behavior challenging because it summons you to a duel or battle but because it is threatening, provocative, and stimulating, all at the same time. Another website was csefel.vanderbuilt.edu/documents/reading_cues.org, and it was just more less the understanding of why challenging behaviors happens with young children. And the last website that I went to was csefel.vanderbilt.edu/resources/family.htm. This website was more for the families to read and get more of a understand and it gave some resources. If I was to have a challenging child in my class then I would was to involve the parents or caregivers and let them be on the same page as I am.
Fluid intelligence doesn’t look much like the capacity to memorize and recite facts, the skills that people have traditionally associated with brainpower. But building it up may improve the capacity to think deeply that Carr and others fear we’re losing for good. And we shouldn’t let the stresses associated with a transition to a new era blind us to that era’s astonishing potential. We swim in an ocean of data, accessible from nearly anywhere, generated by billions of devices. We’re only beginning to explore what we can do with this knowledge-at-a-touch.
People are instinctively fearful of change in any way, but as time passes all things must change and evolve to survive and become better. I see any option that excites young people to write and read will improve their own reading and writing in school. Crystal also points out that “a trillion text messages might seem a lot, but when we set these alongside the multi-trillion instances of standard orthography in everyday life, they appear as no more than a few ripples on the surface of the sea of language” (337). Therefore, texting does not have the power to destroy any language or communication.
Schools cannot beat the entertainment industry at its own game. What they have to offer students is the chance for intellectual freedom, the power to think for themselves…(Ravitch 163). In school, students are always taught to have an open-mind, how can they have an open-mind when they are being censored? Schools only offer boring, bland topics and cause students to lose interest. Students are so highly influenced by the media that if they aren’t hearing about violence, death, sex or lies, then they have the “don’t care” mentality.