Narrated Digital Presentation on Technology in Education

1. How much technology is
too much?
Michael Barreto
Grand Canyon Univesity:TEC-520
May 6, 2019

2. How are Students Dependent onTechnology
andWhy?
• In today’s world it is nearly impossible to imagine a day without technology.
• Students use technology for their schoolwork, social media, lessons, games and
entertainment.
• Learning through technology has its benefits. However, it has made them over
dependent.
• Students of this generation have technology to thank for the ability to gain
information so easily, but the building of skills such as reading and writing are
being overshadowed.

3. Pros ofTechnology in the Classroom
• Technology allows for experimentation and to receive instant feedback
• Helps to ensure full participation
• The vast amount of resources help in making learning more effective and
fun
• Technology is able to automate many tedious tasks
• Due to the fact that we live in a digital world, technology has become a life
skill.

4. Cons ofTechnology in the Classroom
• Technology can become a distraction.
• Overuse of technology can disconnect students from social interaction.
• Students do not have equal access to technological resources.
• Adapting technology into lesson planning may make the process more
strenuous for teachers.
• Technology can encourage cheating on assignments and in class.

5. Our Students Live in a Digital World
• Students born after 2004 are known as the iGeneration or post millennials
because they have never known a world without access to digital
technologies (Maloy,Verock, Edwards & Woolf, 2017, p. 11).
• From early ages, these children have lived media saturated lives, seeing
images from televisions, video games, smartphones, computers, and other
devices.
• According to (Maloy,Verock, Edwards &Woolf, 2017) children ages of 2-10
spend on average of over two hours a day with screen media.

6. The Push to “Unplug” Students Living in a
DigitalWorld
• Children who are given complete control of technology can develop a
multitude of problems.
• They lack a developed pre-frontal cortex which in an adult is the part of the
brain that helps determine good and bad, social control, along with
prediction of outcomes.
• Excessive use of technology during the developmental ages has been shown
to delay frontal brain development.

7. The Push to “Unplug” Students Living in a
DigitalWorld (cont.)
• Due to the amount of nationwide testing of CommonCore standards, public
schools are facing added pressure of preparing students.
• Most tests are for third and fourth grade students and are primarily
computer based.
• As a result of the factors that ride on these tests, schools are increasing the
amount of computer time and also endorsing children to use math and
literacy programs at home.

8. The Push to “Unplug” Students Living in a
DigitalWorld (cont.)
• “What is a mom to do when the test-focused technology policies of her
child’s school conflict with health guidelines and with her own instincts and
beliefs about the right way to raise her children?”(Shank, n.d.,p.8)
• Due to the increased use of technology in school along with the programs
being endorsed for home use parents like Jenny Shank are essentially
“unplugging” their children's technology use at home in favor of reading a
book or taking them to a park.

9. The use of Automation in Education
• Technology reporter and author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist The Shallows:
What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains and the new The Glass Cage:
Automation and Us Nicholas Carr stated regarding the rise of automation in
education, “This is an entirely wrong-headed approach and runs counter to
pretty much everything we know about child development. But technology
promises a quick fix, and at the moment, in education and elsewhere, that
seems to be what we want.” (Shank, n.d.,p.24)

10. Advancement & Adoption ofTechnologyThat
Have Changed Societal Norms
• Over the past two decades technology has revolutionized our world and daily lives.
• Tasks such as banking, bill pay, communication, interaction, and ingestion of media have all
been taken to levels we’d never thought we would see thanks to technology.
• It has made our lives easier and faster.
• The surge in prominence of social media has changed societal norms. According to Salmon
(2013) the portion of our lives considered public has expanded, while the portion of our lives
we can consider private has contracted.With the current use of forums such as social media
today, people make a large part of their "private" lives "public" by posting pictures and
videos for anyone to see and comment on.

11. Advancement & Adoption ofTechnologyThat
Have Changed Societal Norms
• Technology has evolved from people using the internet on a computer to
being able to stay connected all of the time via their smartphone on the go.
• Finding jobs has evolved from reading classified ads in newspapers to
applying to jobs with just one click via websites such as Indeed.com and
Monster.com.
• Social media has taken the world by storm. Relationships can be formed
from a world away thanks to platforms such asTwitter, Facebook, and
Instagram.

12. The Balance Between UsingTechnology as a
LearningTool & Being a Distraction
• When planning to use technology in the classroom teachers must minimize the chances of
it becoming a distraction. “How do we teach students to integrate technology into their
schoolwork and their learning while also making sure that they’re staying focused on the
task at hand?” (DigitalTools & Distraction..,2014, p. 1)There are a few precautionary
measures educators can take:
• Make rules and expectations clear to students
• Teach students the skill of self management
• Teachers must state a clear goal and make it clear to students beforehand
• Engage parents so that they can have conversations with their children where they are able to
acknowledge the role technology will play in their social lives.

13. Tools to Determine Risks and Benefits of Using
CertainTechnologies for Particular Assignments
• One comparative tool that can assist teachers in determining risks and
benefits of using certain technologies for particular assignments is a simple
T chart.
• This of course would take planning and be done beforehand, and the
teacher must take several factors into consideration such as the make-up of
their class, amount of technological resources available, what effect will its
use have on space in the classroom, etc.

14. References
• Hertz, M. B. (2017, July 25). DigitalTools and Distraction in School. Retrieved from
https://www.edutopia.org/blog/digital-tools-distraction-in-school-mary-beth-hertz
• How to UnplugYour Kids Despite Schools PushingTech with Common Core. (2015, March 10). Retrieved from
http://mediashift.org/2015/03/how-to-unplug-your-kids-despite-schools-pushing-tech-with-common-core/
• HowTechnology has Changed Society Part 1. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.highvail.com/how-technology-
has-changed-society-part-1-2/
• Maloy, R. W.,Verock, R. W., Edwards, S. A., & Woolf, B. P. (2017).Transforming learning with new technologies.
Boston, MA: Pearson.
• Salmon, F. (2013). How technology redefines norms. Reuters. Retrieved from http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-
salmon/2013/05/18/how-technology-redefines-norms/