April 27, 2009

This week we discussed the importance of technology and the trend it is taking with educational learning. We saw that technology is not actually making easier for students to learn but the level is staying consistant. To me, this makes prefect sense. Just like our parents learned from text books, is how we learn from PowerPoints. The information is presented in a way that is easy for us to understand but does not really make it more informational or interesting to us. We are just understand the information in a more technological sense then that of our parents. It is important to understand that we are not learning more because of technology, it is just the way we understand the material. If a class was presented in the way of the past it would be less likly for students to understand the material as quickly. I think this was a good lecture because it explained this idea. So far this class has been about how important technology is, which is true, but it is also important to note that it is just easier for students to learn, not that they learn more.