Education and the Internet/Positive and negative impact of educational technology

Positive Impact of   Educational Technology

•Technology provides students an effective way to learn

•Technology in the classroom prepares students to use it in future careers (they won’t be intimidated by it)

•Technology allows more opportunity for differentiation - students can learn at their own pace and revisit tools

•Technology aligned with the lesson plans allows time to be saved, student engagement, and career readiness

Negative Impact of  Educational Technology

1. Large Expenditures There is a high cost for training teachers, the implementation of new devices, and replacement for new devices. Some districts do district-wide refreshments of technology every couple of years.

2. Reliance on Technology Students become reliable on merely looking up information on Google. During class, students have the opportunity to play on different tabs due to feeling entitled to technology. Students can become inefficient learners this way.

3. Misguided/False Information Without being taught how to navigate the Internet and how to discern where to find accurate information for research. Students at the elementary school age are not taught citations through the Common Core curriculum, either. This can lead to the spread of false or inaccurate information among younger generations.

4. Eliminating the need for handwriting Handwriting notes is statistically proven to improve memorization and understanding. A common practice for studying is to hand write typed notes. However, with the dawn of educational technology in the classroom, typing and handwriting are now equally if not disparagingly used in the classroom, with partiality to typing.

5. Effect on Low-income groups Government programs aim to help low-income areas by subsidizing educational technology for those districts, and not high-income districts. However, educational technology as a whole widens the disparity between income groups because high-income students can digitally finish assignments while other students can wont be able to finish assignment

Sources for Findings

Positive:

Blog- Five Positive Effects of Technology on Education

TED Talk- Redefining Learning and Teaching Using Technology

Negative:

American Affairs Article- How Technology Corrupts Education

TED Talk- Why Technology Can't Fix Education

Examples of Educational Technology
There are many different types of technology used in the classroom. They all have positives and negatives. Therefore, let us look into one specific form of educational technology that has been on the rise. Augmented Reality (AR) allows students to see real environments with virtual information. Along with all educational technologies, AR has its positive attributes and its negative attributes.

Positive:
1. AR gives students a real-life experience of the content they are learning about. As the content is becoming alive right before their eyes, they are receiving information at the same time. 2. AR has shown to promote student critical thinking skills. 3. Students are able to have a deeper understanding of their content. 4. Students are engaged to further their learning outside the classroom walls.

Negative:
1. Although AR has some amazing positive attributes, the biggest challenge is money. These tools can be expensive for public schools to purchase. Some tools are less expensive than others but any additional cost will halt any school from trying new technology.

References: “Exploring possible applications of augmented reality in education” Gupta, N., & Rohil, M. (2017). Exploring possible applications of augmented reality in education. 2017 4th International Conference on Signal Processing and Integrated Networks (SPIN), 437-441. https://ieeexplore-ieee-org.csulb.idm.oclc.org/document/8049989

What Are the Pros and Cons of EdTech in the Classroom? Retrieved from https://www.thetechedvocate.org/pros-cons-edtech-classroom/

Laura Lemus

Positive and Negative Impact of Educational Technology Desiree Pascual

Positive Impact:

1.	Maximizes teaching, what can be learned, the speed of use and opens new pathways to learning. Teachers have infinite ways to build in meaning, purpose, and connections.

2.	Utilize different methods of teaching - bring exciting curricula outside the classroom that is based on real-world activities

3.	Unlimited information

4.	Retrieval of information is more straightforward readily available

5.	Easy to publish updated information (King, 2019)

Negative Impact:

1.	Diminishes creativity

2.	Distraction. A study published in the Child Development journal demonstrates “heavy parent digital technology use has been associated with suboptimal parent-child interactions. Results suggest that technological interruptions are associated with child problem behaviors (McDaniel & Radesky, 2018).

3.	Become dependent on the device: An online questionnaire was prepared and distributed among 100 IT employees. The questionnaire was given to them individually to keep away from false results. Each of them took 2–4 min to complete the survey. All data are composed and statistically analyzed. About 42% of them have a habit of using social media for a long time, especially during the night, 63% of them have a habit of checking social media very often. In that 63%, about 40% of IT employees feeling neglected if they do not get a message for a long time. The present study determined that “due to overexposure of screen time, 44% of them experiencing eyesight problems [Figure 2] and 46% of them facing lack of concentration, irritation, and headache. Due to increased screen time, their sleep-wake pattern also altered. Screen Dependency Disorder (SDD) is a screen-related addictive behavior. SDD is closely related to an internet addiction disorder, internet gaming disorder, some social network site addiction, and many other internet addictions” (Sarojini, Gayathri, & Priya, 2019).

4.	Difficult navigation for some: learners must be supported in their diverse needs and capacities.

5.	The expense to maintain and update devices

References

King, T. (2019). Positive negative impact. Retrieved from https://positivenegativeimpact.com/technology-on-education

McDaniel, B. T., & Radesky, J. S. (2018). Technoference: Parent Distraction With Technology and Associations With Child Behavior Problems. Child Development, 89(1), 100–109. https://doi-org.csulb.idm.oclc.org/10.1111/cdev.12822

Sarojini, K., Gayathri, R., & Priya, V. V. (2019). Awareness of screen dependency disorder among information technology professionals – A survey. Drug Invention Today, 12(3), 559–561.