On Monday, we skyped with the classroom from Russia again. While we were talking, the Russian professor brought up technology in schools in America. He asked about how technology was advancing and how it was affecting education, teaching and learning at our university. In many ways, technology is fostering the educational experience by creating new interaction between social groups.
Technology allow classmates in the same courses to share information, connect with one another, and follow each other on various forms of social media. Through networking sites and other internet resources, technology allows students to communicate and collaborate. Through advances in technology, students who are in the same classes can work together and interact with one another. Now, as we are finding, students who live across the world from each other can just as easily interact, communicate, and learn from one another.
However, these advances in technology can also be negative. Many students now choose to interact solely through the internet and networking sites such as Facebook or Twitter, rather than in person. When students are reduced to interacting only behind a computer screen or a cell phone, they tend to lose many of the basic benefits of communicating in the first place. Many of the human aspects of communication and interaction are lost when students choose to only communicate via texting or social networking sites.
Overall, technology can be very beneficial and benefit education and interaction between students, but it can also be detrimental in many ways.
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--Carissa Vinovskis
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