Impact of technology on the educational system
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Shortly after the internet explosion of the 1990s, technology
was immediately integrated into the classrooms.
, and David DiBiase of the Pennsylvania State University
, observes plagiarism
among the adult learners of an online geography course offered through Penn State's World Campus Geographic Information Systems (GIS) certificate program. Findings of the Braumoeller and Gaines Survey of 2001 show that for every two classes, in a student size of 151, 13% of students per semester copied material verbatim and with poor paraphrasing from web sources.
The main concern is the issue of cutting and pasting (transferring data
, files, objects, photos, information
and material
, etc. from one source directly to a destination). With the wide variety of sources that everyone has at their fingertips through the internet
, it is easy and tempting for students to cut and paste, and difficult for teachers to locate and identify plagiarized sources. Educators are turning to Turnitin.com, a web site for students to upload assignments for teachers to view with a built-in plagiarism filter coherent with the web.
Videos such as Baby Einstein
s line of infant DVDs are a topic of conflicting interest, according to the University of Washington study of infant vocabulary is slipping due to educational baby DVDs.
Published in the Journal of Pediatrics, a 2007 University of Washington
study on the vocabulary of babies surveyed over 1,000 parents in Washington and Minnesota
. the study found that for every one hour that babies 8–16 months of age watched DVDs and Videos they knew 6-8 fewer 90 common baby words than the babies that did not watch them. Andrew Meltzoff, Ph.D, a surveyor in this study states that the result makes sense, that if the baby's 'alert time' is spent in front of DVDs and TV, instead of with people speaking, the babies are not going to get the same linguistic experience. Dr. Dimitri Chistakis, another surveyor reported that the evidence is mounting that baby DVDs are of no value and may be harmful.
The digital revolution
hit generation z
, also known as the digital generation of youth with a new way of interacting with the world and with their own identities. Social networking websites, such as Facebook
are tools by which the digital generation as a means of assessing their culture.
Michel Rich, an associate professor at Harvard Medical School
and executive director of the center on Media and Child Health in Boston said of the digital generation, "Their brains are rewarded not for staying on task, but for jumping to the next thing, and the side effects could linger: the worry is we're raising a generation of kids in front of screens whose brains are going to be wired differently."
(Attention Deficit Disorder) has been linked to prolonged exposure of abundant information, 15% of elementary students are on psychotropic medications and by college, 40% of students are taking prescribed medicine. fMRIscans revealed that activity in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (a region behind the forehead responsible for decision making and emotional control) increased as information was added to a decision until it reached a critical mass and cognitive overload when the activity abruptly subsided.
itself has unlocked a world of opportunity for students. Information and ideas that were previously out of reach are a click away. Students of all ages can connect, share, and learn on a global scale. Success at difficult technological tasks, as well as social networking such as Facebook
can also lead to improved self-esteem
. The environmental aspects of e-mail and online drop boxes are the most compelling argument. Branches, trees, and forests are saved everyday, let alone the countless resources no longer wasted to harvest the paper crop.
Students in school today are constantly surrounded by technology; we live in a technological society. Utilizing these technologies is the best way to reach out to students. Many students have different types of learning styles and using different types of technology is a great way to help all kinds of learners.
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And at the same time, the impact of multimedia does not only stay in opening a new door for searching materials, but also it would encourage people to create much more writings. Because of the low efficiency with hand-writing before, universities' students tend to avoid creating additional sorts of writings, such as letters, novels, diary and etc.(e.g., a research from Stanford University
would help you understand it further.)
Technology
Technology is the making, usage, and knowledge of tools, machines, techniques, crafts, systems or methods of organization in order to solve a problem or perform a specific function. It can also refer to the collection of such tools, machinery, and procedures. The word technology comes ;...
was immediately integrated into the classrooms.
Educational implications
The student teacher dynamic has drastically changed since the introduction of technology based class structure. The instructor is no longer the king of the classroom but rather a middleman between information and student. Instead of a passive sponge soaking up knowledge, the student has now become an active informational architect, procuring, rearranging and displaying information. Two-thirds of teachers surveyed at the turn of the century stated that they were not comfortable using technology, leaving tech-savvy students in a position to assist the teacher in technology based lesson plans.Technology as a means for cheating and plagiarism
A quantified case study by Christine Jocoy of California State UniversityCalifornia State University
The California State University is a public university system in the state of California. It is one of three public higher education systems in the state, the other two being the University of California system and the California Community College system. It is incorporated as The Trustees of the...
, and David DiBiase of the Pennsylvania State University
Pennsylvania State University
The Pennsylvania State University, commonly referred to as Penn State or PSU, is a public research university with campuses and facilities throughout the state of Pennsylvania, United States. Founded in 1855, the university has a threefold mission of teaching, research, and public service...
, observes plagiarism
Plagiarism
Plagiarism is defined in dictionaries as the "wrongful appropriation," "close imitation," or "purloining and publication" of another author's "language, thoughts, ideas, or expressions," and the representation of them as one's own original work, but the notion remains problematic with nebulous...
among the adult learners of an online geography course offered through Penn State's World Campus Geographic Information Systems (GIS) certificate program. Findings of the Braumoeller and Gaines Survey of 2001 show that for every two classes, in a student size of 151, 13% of students per semester copied material verbatim and with poor paraphrasing from web sources.
The main concern is the issue of cutting and pasting (transferring data
Data
The term data refers to qualitative or quantitative attributes of a variable or set of variables. Data are typically the results of measurements and can be the basis of graphs, images, or observations of a set of variables. Data are often viewed as the lowest level of abstraction from which...
, files, objects, photos, information
Information
Information in its most restricted technical sense is a message or collection of messages that consists of an ordered sequence of symbols, or it is the meaning that can be interpreted from such a message or collection of messages. Information can be recorded or transmitted. It can be recorded as...
and material
Material
Material is anything made of matter, constituted of one or more substances. Wood, cement, hydrogen, air and water are all examples of materials. Sometimes the term "material" is used more narrowly to refer to substances or components with certain physical properties that are used as inputs to...
, etc. from one source directly to a destination). With the wide variety of sources that everyone has at their fingertips through the internet
Internet
The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite to serve billions of users worldwide...
, it is easy and tempting for students to cut and paste, and difficult for teachers to locate and identify plagiarized sources. Educators are turning to Turnitin.com, a web site for students to upload assignments for teachers to view with a built-in plagiarism filter coherent with the web.
Effects on children
Technology base educational videos and games are being integrated into the lives and classrooms of new generations. These videos and games are meant to be used as tools to help growing minds develop, and to increase knowledge and awareness.Videos such as Baby Einstein
Baby Einstein
Baby Einstein is a line of multimedia products and toys that specializes in interactive activities for children aged 3 months to 3 years old. Subjects such as classical music, art, and poetry are prominently explored. These products are currently made by a division of the Walt Disney Company,...
s line of infant DVDs are a topic of conflicting interest, according to the University of Washington study of infant vocabulary is slipping due to educational baby DVDs.
Published in the Journal of Pediatrics, a 2007 University of Washington
University of Washington
University of Washington is a public research university, founded in 1861 in Seattle, Washington, United States. The UW is the largest university in the Northwest and the oldest public university on the West Coast. The university has three campuses, with its largest campus in the University...
study on the vocabulary of babies surveyed over 1,000 parents in Washington and Minnesota
Minnesota
Minnesota is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. The twelfth largest state of the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with 5.3 million residents. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the thirty-second state...
. the study found that for every one hour that babies 8–16 months of age watched DVDs and Videos they knew 6-8 fewer 90 common baby words than the babies that did not watch them. Andrew Meltzoff, Ph.D, a surveyor in this study states that the result makes sense, that if the baby's 'alert time' is spent in front of DVDs and TV, instead of with people speaking, the babies are not going to get the same linguistic experience. Dr. Dimitri Chistakis, another surveyor reported that the evidence is mounting that baby DVDs are of no value and may be harmful.
The digital revolution
Digital Revolution
The Digital Revolution is the change from analog mechanical and electronic technology to digital technology that has taken place since c. 1980 and continues to the present day. Implicitly, the term also refers to the sweeping changes brought about by digital computing and communication technology...
hit generation z
Generation Z
Generation Z is a common name in the US and other Western nations for the group of people born from the early 1990s through to the present....
, also known as the digital generation of youth with a new way of interacting with the world and with their own identities. Social networking websites, such as Facebook
Facebook
Facebook is a social networking service and website launched in February 2004, operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc. , Facebook has more than 800 million active users. Users must register before using the site, after which they may create a personal profile, add other users as...
are tools by which the digital generation as a means of assessing their culture.
Michel Rich, an associate professor at Harvard Medical School
Harvard Medical School
Harvard Medical School is the graduate medical school of Harvard University. It is located in the Longwood Medical Area of the Mission Hill neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts....
and executive director of the center on Media and Child Health in Boston said of the digital generation, "Their brains are rewarded not for staying on task, but for jumping to the next thing, and the side effects could linger: the worry is we're raising a generation of kids in front of screens whose brains are going to be wired differently."
Neurological changes
Angelika Dimoka, Director of the Center for Neural Decision Making at Temple University in Philadelphia pronounced, "With too much information, people's decisions make less and less sense." Neurological differences shape the brain of youth, reading and writing are taking a back seat to scrolling and clicking, 80% of families did not buy or read a book in 2007. ADDADD
* A.D.D. , a song on System of a Down's album Steal This Album!* A.D.D. , the first studio album by Blake Lewis, the runner-up on the sixth season of American Idol...
(Attention Deficit Disorder) has been linked to prolonged exposure of abundant information, 15% of elementary students are on psychotropic medications and by college, 40% of students are taking prescribed medicine. fMRIscans revealed that activity in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (a region behind the forehead responsible for decision making and emotional control) increased as information was added to a decision until it reached a critical mass and cognitive overload when the activity abruptly subsided.
Positive effects of technology and education
The InternetInternet
The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite to serve billions of users worldwide...
itself has unlocked a world of opportunity for students. Information and ideas that were previously out of reach are a click away. Students of all ages can connect, share, and learn on a global scale. Success at difficult technological tasks, as well as social networking such as Facebook
Facebook
Facebook is a social networking service and website launched in February 2004, operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc. , Facebook has more than 800 million active users. Users must register before using the site, after which they may create a personal profile, add other users as...
can also lead to improved self-esteem
Self-esteem
Self-esteem is a term in psychology to reflect a person's overall evaluation or appraisal of his or her own worth. Self-esteem encompasses beliefs and emotions such as triumph, despair, pride and shame: some would distinguish how 'the self-concept is what we think about the self; self-esteem, the...
. The environmental aspects of e-mail and online drop boxes are the most compelling argument. Branches, trees, and forests are saved everyday, let alone the countless resources no longer wasted to harvest the paper crop.
Students in school today are constantly surrounded by technology; we live in a technological society. Utilizing these technologies is the best way to reach out to students. Many students have different types of learning styles and using different types of technology is a great way to help all kinds of learners.
Usage of Multimedia technology in Literature
As the great development of database derived from technology, more and more scholar articles could be uploaded into electronic library through the internet. And as a result, tens of thousands academic articles and masterpiece can be shared by public, especially satisfying the need of the academic writers and college students. However, before the application of multimedia, even like in last 90s', people can only go to the library of a university or a public civilian library to borrow and referenced resources from the vast of pages. Whereas, the multimedia turns the whole human being's society into a new era. Today, people could find the useful resources from internet through typing the key words into the search engine, like GoogleGoogle
Google Inc. is an American multinational public corporation invested in Internet search, cloud computing, and advertising technologies. Google hosts and develops a number of Internet-based services and products, and generates profit primarily from advertising through its AdWords program...
.
And at the same time, the impact of multimedia does not only stay in opening a new door for searching materials, but also it would encourage people to create much more writings. Because of the low efficiency with hand-writing before, universities' students tend to avoid creating additional sorts of writings, such as letters, novels, diary and etc.(e.g., a research from Stanford University
Stanford University
The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...
would help you understand it further.)
Further reading
- Sample, Ian. "Oxford Scientist Calls for Research on Technology 'mind Change' | Science | The Guardian." Latest News, Comment and Reviews from the Guardian | Guardian.co.uk. 14 Dec. 2010. Web. 14 Mar. 2011.
- Laster, Jill. "Students Retain Information in Print-Like Formats Better - Wired Campus - The Chronicle of Higher Education." Home - The Chronicle of Higher Education. 27 Mar. 2010. Web. 14 Mar. 2011.
- http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-565207/Modern-technology-changing-way-brains-work-says-neuroscientist.html