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Technology in classrooms has affected education in ways that seem to be immeasurable. There has reached a point where students now expect classes to have technology in it and actually avoid classes that do not. Education is turning out to be more about the newest technology and how it is being used in the classroom, than about the pedagogy itself (McKinney et al., 2008). Students no longer feel the need to attend class everyday and take diligent notes because they know that they will be able to find all these things online or on the school's Blackboard. Although the downright subject is not being affected, the way students are being taught and the way they are beginning to learn is being altered. This does not necessarily have to be in a negative way, though. Every person has a different learning style and different learning ability, and having technology in the classroom caters to a wider variety.
The impact that technology is having in the classroom is only in the beginning stages. Researchers are so intrigued by how much education and its pedagogy is changing because technology is a relatively new feature. But this will soon change. Technology advances exponentially, and in a couple of years, who knows what will be available. There is going to be a point in time where education will be all about the latest technology and it...
From digitizing books in order to save on paper and clean up the environment, to having full blown courses taught online so that more students could be reached simultaneously, we are only in the beginning stages of technology's advancement in education.
In conclusion, this study (Lavin et al., 2010) has only begun to analyze the affects that technology has on education and how much it will impact its future. Although this particular study was very well planned out by analyzing how the students perceived any given situation, what needs to be researched more is how technology is perceived by students not attending a brick and mortar type of environment and is instead completing courses completely online in the convenience of their own space. As stated before, technology is just in the beginning stages of development and will actually change how education is not only performed, but how it is interpreted.
References:
Lavin, A.M., Korte, L., & Davies, T.L. (2010). The impact of classroom technology on student behavior. Journal of Technology Research. 2:1-13.
McKinney, D., Dyck, J.L., & Luber, E.S. (2009). iTunes in the classroom: Can podcasts replace professors? Computers and Education, 52:617 -- 623.
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