The document discusses the impacts of technology on the quality of education in the United States. It argues that technology has greatly improved engagement and collaboration among students by encouraging activities like blogging and social media use. It also states that technology helps prepare students for the job market, where 85% of employers require computer literacy. Additionally, the document discusses how technology benefits teachers by allowing easier communication and grading of assignments. In conclusion, it asserts that embracing technology in the classroom has more advantages than disadvantages for students and their educational quality.

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IMPACTS OF TECHNOLOGY IN THE QUALITY OF
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Impacts of Technology in the Quality of Education
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Technology is a major contributor to the current improved
standards and quality of education system in the United States.
The introduction of technology to the learning institutions and
more especially in classroom has greatly encouraged
engagement and collaboration from the students which defines
whether learning is taking place or not. The current generation
having grown up with technology in their fingertips, its
inclusion in the learning environment will have more of positive
impacts than negative impacts to their academic performance
and their future success in general. This paper serves to analyze
the encouraging impacts of technology in the education system,
its importance to both the learners and teachers and why it has

2. to be embraced in classroom.
Impacts of Technology in the Quality of Education
Introduction
Is the incorporation of technology into the learning and teaching
system improving the quality of education? From history,
technology has been like a catalyst for the many changes that
we are experiencing in the current world. For instance, when we
think of the way the internet has unified the world into a single
society, technology takes credit. In production and
manufacturing industry, efficiency and productivity have been
greatly improved through technology. With the many benefits of
technology, it's no doubt then that our learning institutions are
making use of technology even in the classroom. However, the
most commonly asked question is whether the technology in the
classroom helps students to learn. Well, some individuals may
argue that technology is distracting students from their full
learning potential, I am certain that the use of technology in our
learning institutions plays a vital role for the betterment of the
students’ future. As David Warlick said, “We need technology
in every classroom and in every student and teacher’s hand,
because it’s the pen and paper of our time, and it’s the lens
through which we experience much of our world”. In this paper,
I will discuss the importance of technology to the student,
teacher and the education system as a whole (Al‐Zahrani, 2015).
According to the Social Constructivism Theory, learning is
viewed as students’ integration into a knowledge community
that involves collaborative assimilation besides accommodation
of new information. Students' engagement in the classroom

3. serves as an indication that the learning process is taking place.
For the students to be effectively engaged in class activities,
group work is highly encouraged for the essence of
collaboration to be appreciated in the learning environment. The
facilitator has to choose on an effective method that he or she
can use to engage the students well bearing in mind that the
current students have never defined life without internet which
is actually technology. Therefore in such an incidence,
technology can be taken as the best method since it can enhance
collaboration via blogging and social sharing sites. 90% of the
students between the ages of 12 to 18 years use the internet in
the United States of America, and due to the fact that the
current generation has grown up with technology, they find it
easy and confident to use computers to share ideas. In fact, a
per the research of the NSBA, 60% of the students discuss about
educational topics on the social sites online with 50% talking
specifically on homework solving problems (Salomon, 2016).
The main aim of educating a child is to see him or her having a
bright future which entails that he or she will apply the skills
learned from school to secure a job to boost his or her living if
not venturing into entrepreneurship. According to statistics,
about 85% of the United States employers are hiring computer
literate employees. And, in fact, not only computer literate but
employees who can be able to integrate their computer
technology skills towards solving the real world problems.
Although innovation, leadership, and collaboration are very
fundamental for any successful employee, the employers are
dynamically changing to hiring employees who on top of these
attributes; they possess a cognitive, public besides cultural
dimensions of how to apply technology in different settings.
Since technology has made the world a smaller society,
employees must have the quality of constantly changing to catch
up with the constant changes in technology. Therefore, it's good
to appreciate the fact that with the use of technology in the
classroom, it's not only assisting the students to excel
academically but also to shape them to fit in the job market

4. after school (Salomon,et .al 2016).
The world needs leaders who liberal minded in terms of
thinking besides accepting changes and new ideas in society.
Technology can positively impact on the individual’s insight
and thoughts. For an individual to think liberally, he or she
must learn different types of proficiencies that can't necessarily
be thought by a teacher. However, they can be learned through
the use of technology. Computer literacy, as well as cultural
literacy, is some of them and an expert in these areas,
technology must play a major role. Because the information on
these issues is in the internet, and with the change of web from
1.0 to 2.0 which is a read-only interface which leaves learners
with many opportunities on how to schedule and spend their
learning time, the young generation has no excuse of not being
knowledgeable, and classroom is the best place to start learning
this information from as there are experts to guide them on the
excellent practices (Hainey et .al 2016).
The reading literacy and writing literacy are very crucial
in any developing child. According to the cognitive theory of
development, the development of a child vocabulary and speech
is mostly from peers. While in school, the writing and reading
of the learned vocabularies are given priority because they are
the main building blocks of learning. Although many
individuals say that with the use of technology in our learning
institution, the competency of reading and writing is being
affected, I will tend to differ with them. Technology can assist
in a better understanding of reading and writing. For instance
blogging, students preparing web pages for either assignments
or personal use greatly contributes to enhancing the student's
reading and writing skills. In fact, according to the research of
the PEW Internet and American Life project of 2007, 93% of
the teens used the internet for social interaction, 64% of the
teens used the internet for content creating activities. During
social interaction and content creation, there is involvement in
writing and reading skills (Sharma, Joshi, & Sharma, 2016).
According to Jean Piaget, if a teacher is teaching in a class

5. of four students, then he or she must understand that there are
four different ways of understanding from that class. This
means that for the teacher to effectively deliver the knowledge
to all the students, he or she must adjust the teaching
curriculum that all students in the class will understand. In
Patricia A. Cranton and Caroline Kreber article ‘Exploring the
scholarship of Teaching’, an individual have three different
reflections of learning which are, content reflection, process
reflection and premise reflection. This also shows that there are
many different ways to achieve the above three reflections for
the purpose of helping students learn and develop. Therefore the
teacher has to understand what will work better for every
student in the classroom and given the fact that technology is
part of the young generations’ life, it must be considered to be
the best way to be used to deliver the knowledge that is
necessary and relevant for the students to be acquainted with
(Fathema, Shannon, & Ross, 2015).
On getting out of standardizing students, technology has
provided students with what I can term as modified enlightening
experience. By the introduction of technology in classroom,
there has been enablement of many differences in the learning
environment, where students who not only know how to answer
multiple choice questions but also having relevant knowledge to
enable them think critically in anything they do, whether in
school or in society are produced. This has helped the learning
institutions more especially in the United States to produces all
round and responsible citizens. According to the National
Technology Officer Cameron Evans, the important projected
benefit that will result from incorporation of technology to
learning is that, the graduating students will be producers as
opposed to the non-technology era where only consumer of
content students used to graduate. It’s through this reason that I
believe, on the side of student enablement, technology has
greatly assisted in nurturing them, both academically and
professionally hence brightening their future life (Al‐Zahrani et
.al 2015).

6. The teachers have not been left behind as far as technology use
is a concern. Many schools in the United States have got
internet connectivity. In fact, almost 99% of public schools in
the United States of America are connected to the internet. This
facilitates communication from one department to another
through electronic mailing. Also, the exchange of knowledge
from one teacher to another has been fastened with internet
connectivity. The advanced level of research from the American
scholars who happen to be academicians mostly is as a result of
the improved and availability of the necessary technology to
boost the research. The communication between teachers and
students has been fastened in United States Schools because of
the presence of technology. In fact, even issuing of assignments
from the teachers to the students is through technology use and
in return the students submit the assignments through the same
technology (Domingo, &Garganté, 2016).
The use of technology has also helped the teachers to mark the
student's assignments and tests faster besides evaluating
individual student’s performance as far as academics is a
concern.Through the introduction of classroom technology, the
teachers have been able to close the gap between the new
literacy and old literacy via online book clubs. These clubs
usually tend to be committing some suitable events to the
students and they are usually seen by the parents as well as the
teachers. Also, technology use through digital storytelling
allows the students to become more through topic selection,
research conduction besides writing a script which also
promotes reading and writing skills. It is also important to note
that technology has greatly helped in curbing cheating and
malpractice cases in the learning institutions through the use of
plagiarism software. This has contributed to the integrity and
quality of the United States of America education system. No
wonder the best educational institutions in the world ranking in
terms of quality of education offered are from the United
States.The institutional administrators also make use of
technology to communicate easily to various departments

7. besides helping them in decision making. For instance, the
management decision-making tool is software that is
technologically designed to aid the administrators in decision
making (Carver, 2016).
In conclusion, technology has been evolving within our midst
and it will continue evolving from generation to generation. It’s
high time that we eradicate the norm of ignoring technology in
our society but rather embrace the good changes that come with
technology as it will always continue impacting positively to
our language, thoughts, and behavior. While I appreciate the
fact that technology won't take the position of a teacher in the
classroom, it's better for the teachers to familiarize themselves
with the teaching strategies that will reach besides engaging all
their students in the classroom where technology stands out to
be the only ways as far as the current generation is a concern.
Although at times it may tend to narrow down the thinking
capacity of the students due to overreliance on technology to
search everything instead of thinking, it will be of no
consequence that once technology has been successfully
embraced and effectively understood by the students, they will
future exhilarate on the benefits of this technical knowledge,
when they will find competent enough anywhere they may go in
this world to almost all the available job markets. This is due to
the fact that, from the discussions on this paper, classroom
technology use has stood out to be of more advantages to the
students in terms of educational quality (Lai, & Smith, 2018).
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