Positive Effects of Technology in

EducationBy: Brandie Smith

Research ➢ Students may use the internet for more updated sources ➢ Use more than one research article for the project➢ Can get the pros and cons of an argument that they might

have to discuss

Enrichment Games

★ Learn basic skills; reading, counting, spelling ★ Makes education more fun for younger school goers ★ Enhances kids ability to retain more knowledge

Globalization ➢ Schools from all over the globe can connect to each

other ➢ Can connect with each other without leaving the

comfort of the classroom➢ Students can interact with foreign students and teachers

to learn language courses

School Improvements

★ Learning ★ Decrease in dropout percentages★ Attendance ★ Student graduating ★ Parent involvement

Correspondence Courses

➢ Correspondence courses have become easier and more effective

➢ Students may now email their assignments to their professors ➢ Internet has enabled students to send work quicker

Web Discussions ★ Students can virtually attend events ★ Actually talk to important people through web seminars;

unable to show up to presentations★ Programs help students with vital information

Enhanced Internet

➢ Videos can show students how to do a specific task ➢ Literature could be enhanced by online sources ➢ Best of all worlds for visual, kinetic, and audio learners

Technological Improvements

Writing Progress

Negative Effects of Technology in Education By: Luis Ruiz

Elevated Anger• Our generation today enjoys the pleasure of themselves in the

internet, texting or gaming.

• Leading to frustration whenever parents ask them to do something while using the internet or playing video games.

• Behaviors like this shatters many parent-children

Writing skills

• Relies on digital communication and forgetting to improve their writing skills.

• Instead of writing the full word out, they tend to use abbreviations/slang.

Academics• Spends too much time in front of the television or playing

video games.

• Tends to be distracted by the new technology.

• Kids multi-task, but they focus more on the interesting things, instead of the more important ones.

Laziness • Tends to go on the internet for the answer without trying to

figure it out themselves.

• Can’t find the mentality to get the energy to accomplish the assignments, so social networks become more as a an attention grabber.

Lack of Privacy

• The internet has stripped the world of privacy these days with their apps and websites.

• People can find all of your information on the website you go on all the time.

• There are a lot of hackers these days, they would do anything to get all your info.

Cyber-Bullying

• The use of technology has increase bullying very much, where kids cannot be themselves because everywhere they go, they get picked on

• They say it on the internet so everyone can see, which they want to act cool

• Teen suicide rates have increased

Stressed

• Using too much Technology results in students focusing more on the outside world.

• Instead of accomplishing tasks they tend to be more concerned with outside matters.

• Slow internet connections

Distractions• Facebook

• Instagram

• Snapchat

• Youtube

• Twitter

Sexual Boundaries

• Happening at young age.

• Messaging sexual body parts that lasts for 10 second,but where does it go after?

• Sexting