Monday, August 28, 2017

Should schools and parents give only a minimal amount of time for electronics or even ban them-AJ

  • Many learning experiences and fun action has been introduced through technology. Kids these days have been given devices such as Ipads, smartphones , laptops, and etc.. These devices have been used for many purposes such as academics, games, interactions, and much more. Especially nowadays schools have been giving there students extending privileges on using these devices for academic purposes. A common problem though is that kids have been taking advantage of these devices, that many parents, teachers, and principal have had thoughts of banning such devices in class or having an effective and controlling procedure for these devices. While other parents have denied that and believe students should be able to use it in a different, and non-abusive way.
  • A mother in Michigan does support that schools should have certain ways of threatening or even stopping usage of electronic devices.For example,a mother in Michigan believed it was fair to cut down the usage of technology. It was her sons senior year in high school and he was given a laptop and Kindle fire for academic schoolwork. It was his first day to receive the school's devices, and he looked very happy about getting them. In his school, all they had used was their devices. Their laptops and kindles were used for schoolwork, productive in class discussions, projects, testing , and also home work. Since his homework was done on his devices he was allowed to take them home every day, but the mom noticed that had finished his homework extra fast, and that he was doing other school work.
  • The mom was surprised at this because she had known very well that her son had been very troubled in keeping up with his past classes and went to special ed. She was convinced that her son had started to become better at doing his schoolwork because of the provided technology. She was also a little curious because her son would always spend a lot more time on his devices after he had finished his schoolwork. When the first semester grades were shown the mom had found out her son had gotten b's and some c's, which was some what better than his past grades. The school had newly added an activity scanner on students devices. The mom was recent her son's letter grades receiving all  f's on his report card and on the bottom was clearly underlined as plagiarism, cheating, and misuse of device. The mom found out and had a serious talk with her son. The school had decided to take away his devices before the end of the school year and his college was informed causing him to struggle because of it. 
  • On the other hand, many parents do believe that it is a good thing to apprehend devices in teaching. They believe this because technology has had tremendous benefits for kids in ways of being taught and learning new development skills. for example, many kids in school may be bad in many academics, but they can still have a great job and college career if they are great in handling different types of technologies. Kids have had successes in ways of learning so many schools have been putting great enforcement on utilizing them.
  • In many ways technology has been a great factor in daily lives. These lives are especially of young students trying to learn, but many have misused them.  That is why schools have found better ways of preventing them. Technology can be a great friend when properly used, but it can also be your worst enemy when misused.

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