Technology And Learning Environment Of Children Of All Ages

Technology in Classrooms As a child in your elementary school classroom, have you ever cheered for joy when your teacher allowed you to play games on a computer or tablet to help you learn? Have you ever been more interested in the vivid colors and pretty designs in the game? Rather than the actual material within the game? Well I have. As a child, computers have distracted me from learning. I’ve been more interested in the bright colors and funny-looking animated characters in the game that it began to disable my ability to learn from the content within the game. Recently, Technologies such as computers and tablets, have been incorporated into the learning environment of children of all ages. There are many positive and negative effects†¦show more content†¦These technologies in these classrooms have become a distraction to students, a safety hazard for students, and it has caused student reliance. Technologies such as computers and tablets should be limited in elementary school classrooms . Many people have found technologies such as computers and tablets to be beneficial in elementary school classrooms. According to Cleaver, technologies that are used to personalize learning leads to student understanding; which means that student understanding can be increased by using technologies that personalize learning. Student engagement can also be increased by using computers and tablets, and students are more likely to spend more time working with learning technology. Cleaver then notes that technology is particularly helpful with memorization—in terms of vocabulary, maps, mathematical formulas, and colors (Cleaver). Although Cleaver may be correct in terms of the memorization benefits of using these technologies, I do not believe that these technologies that are allegedly used for personalize learning leads to student understanding. I view personalized learning as a way to give students the opportunity to learn in their own way. The issue with that method is that stud ents would most likely close the easiest way of learning. Instead of them taking the extra steps of learning in different ways, they would automatically choose the easiest way of learning and understanding the content—which may cause complications