INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN SCHOOL

Information Technology in School

Information Technology in School

In education, the issue of technology is constantly increasing in the debate. Schools should spend money on computers and networks, which is a very difficult to keep both software and hardware? Schools have found both the benefits and disadvantages in investing in computers and technology.

Students benefit greatly from the use of information technology in many areas. Information technology has encouraged the development of productivity, increased student participation and has enabled students to complete projects with students from other cities, states and even countries (Carey, 26). Studies students who have twenty-four hours access to laptops have shown that students show an increase in problem solving and critical sills, improve learning in core academic subjects, to produce higher quality work and have even contributed over one-on one time between teachers and students (El 16).

Technology is an integral component of learning. It is that students learn at different rates, technology can individualize instruction. You can move at a pace appropriate to provide a solid foundation of basic skills. Computer-based technologies can administer individualized lesson sequences that branch and remedy according to the student's unique needs, quickly and automatically monitor progress and generate reports (Peck and Dorricot 11).

The Internet offers a communication tool that can assist students in networking within and between schools. Internet technology allows rapid student-student communication via e-mail relatively inexpensive. Through Internet students can also find friends by correspondence on the Internet and experience the world through the vision of the other students (Carey, 24).

While computers and technology to provide a lot of progress in education, there are some basic problems. These difficulties range from the psychological addiction to the lack of ethical misconduct and the actions of producers and users of technology. With regard to addiction, some people are so addicted to its use to the extent that they have left the university Flunk, the loss of their husbands, become mentally ill in view of their jobs, their human rights and the decline in contracts. Some people avoid the excessive use of personal contacts on the Internet in order to reduce their personal communication with people.

Some have also gone into seclusion Internet, while the daily routines of care in order not to work and deal with people. With addiction there is no such margin of progress in providing education (Eddy and Spaulding 392). The technology can change ...