Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Problem

     According to (Johnson, 2010),  Many schools have banned the use of laptops, netbooks, cell phones, PDAs, iPod/MP3 players, and portable game players. Educators are discovering that students are more interested in online resources, such as Facebook, game sites, chat, and YouTube, than classroom lectures and textbook chapters about the Crimean War, square roots, or past participles.(Johnson, 2010)  There are various non-academic needs of students that often go unmet, If we invest in them, the social distractions and disadvantages are reduced and the academic needs have a greater opportunity to flourish. (Antonio, 2009).
    
     There is not a silver-bullet solution to students tuning out succesfull.  When we were high school students long before there were iPads and Wi- Fi,  we were distracted too. Those attentiion grabbers were simply things like being distracted by classmates both male and female, doodling, as well as looking at the view out of a classroom window. Just as good teachers have never relied on a single method, approach, or tool, today’s good teachers will never use a single technology in a single way. 

    
References
Antonio, Chad (2009), Middle School and Administrator Perceptions of the Whole Child Professional
         Development Program Based on the PA School-Wide Positive Behavior Support (Doctoral
         disseration), Available from ProQuest Dissertations and Theses databases, Saint Josephs   
         University (Publicaiton No. Ed 513144)

Johnson, D. (2010). Taming the Chaos. Learning & Leading with Technology v38(n3), 20-23.   
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2 comments:

  1. DocResearchOctober 19, 2011 at 8:52 AM

    Great job on your blog! Although you have good supporting information here, I am missing a nice, clean, concise problem statement (e.g., Technology used inappropriately is distracting students away from their academic studies, or something like this; not sure if you want to focus on just technological distractions or all distractions).

    In addition, although this is a blog and one should not be concerned about APA style in the informal writing of a blog, for purposes of your assignments, make sure that the author is not included in parens when you discuss them in text. For example, "According to Johnson (2010), many schools..." Also, make sure you use your APA manual when citing your references for your assignments.

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  2. T CarterDecember 11, 2011 at 7:41 PM

    Technology is a great thing. But in terms of education, I do believe that having too much technology in a learning environment can be a distraction to students. If personal cell phones, Ipad's, etc. are allowed in classrooms, this only allows for the students focus to be directed to those things(texting, Facebook, Twitter) rather than focusing what is being taught by the teacher. There are enough distractions and interruptions in a classroom learning environment without the added technology.

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