The perfect age to introduce technology to students

Nowadays technology has became in something really necessary in or world since the the adult people to the elderly people, but children are getting more involved day by day because they are getting borned in a completely technological environment; in the past was believed that just adult people could learn something new about technology or that just them would use it, but now children understand and learn even better through tecnology. In some cases we can say that introducing technology to our students is better if we do it since their first years, but we have to be very careful because we can be doing something bad instead of good because children may go in another way and use technology not in the way we want, there is a complete world that children can discover through technology, but as we have a good world we also have a bad one and we have to be very careful to protect them of that and to guide them through we right path in technology; the teacher plays a very important role because he has to check and supervise in the process of using technology. I strongly believe that there is not an exact perfect age to introduce technology to students, but the sooner you start the better will be because students will learn more and in a better way because there are many advantages about using technology because many years ago, particularly before the Internet was invented, people has to go to libraries or buy books just to have the information they need in making book reports, projects, researches, theses, and other related academic papers. For mothers, they have to buy recipe books just to learn cooking new recipes. Fathers have to buy newspapers just to get updated about the latest news. Business people have to buy business magazines just to get updates about economic growth. Fashion savvy people have to buy fashion and lifestyle magazines just to get updated about fashion trends. All these are costly and consume time and effort. Today, all these are eliminated as information is easily accessed through the Internet. It is also important to say that through the use of technology he help our environment because a school is an institution that can be found in every state or country. With this, one could only imagine how many billion sheets of paper are consumed yearly. Apart from it being costly, it also contributes in the faster depletion of the forests. That is why with tablet computers and smartphones, the need to print more books is lessened. Actually, there are now schools that use especially designed computers for their classrooms and libraries. This also lessens the need to reproduce information in black and white. So as a conclusion I can say that the best age in which as teachers we can introduce technology to our students is the one in which they need it and and also the one in which they find that useful; besides that technology would always help students in many aspects, so as I said before the sooner you introduce technology to your students, the better performance they will have in education.

Traditional Classes vs Online Classes

I think this is a very good topic because there's a lot to say related to this. First of all, I want to recall there for years there has been a tradition talking about education of course, specifically with classes, for a long but really long time poeople have gone to school, high school, college or university because that is the way in which we learn things, but technology came to change absolutely everything because in the past it was an obligation that you had to go to school in order to learn; now the story is completely different because you do not have the necessity of going to a certain place and get together with a number of people to listen to a teacher in order to learn things, you can do that by yourself online without going out of your house, work, or any place. The important thing here is that even though we have that modality now of online classes we still have regular clases though so why regular classes or online classes? I will tell you now some advantages of both of them so that you have a better idea. We are going to start with the regular classes; first of all, regular classes or classes that we have in a classroom offers multi-sensory appeal. You can listen to the teacher, receive visual cues through PowerPoint images, handouts or whiteboard lists and participate actively in hands-on activities and case studies. You also have direct access to the teacher in class. Interaction is immediate and you normally have opportunities to ask questions and participate in live discussions. This also allows you to benefit form the firsthand accounts of other students' experiences. If you want to build and maintain personal and professional relationships during your education, classrooms also offer greater personal contact with other students. On the other hand, we have onlne classes an in here you can sit at home or go to a library to do your coursework. This eliminates the need for driving, which saves gas, and in some cases, allows you to take classes from distant schools. Online learners also get to develop their Internet, technology and virtual team skills by participating in online discussions, tests and other virtual learning activities. The ability to do coursework on your own schedule and to manage the pace of your learning experience are also benefits to online students. As we know we have also disadvantages for both of them; in the case of the regular classes learning is normally fairly structured. You meet at regularly scheduled times on the same days each week. This limits flexibility with work and other activities. You generally must be in class to get the learning experience and to keep up with requirements. Unless your teachers record lectures, in-class instruction is not available after the class session is over. Students who struggle to focus may also find classrooms distracting to their learning experience. We have the other case with online classes because students sometimes misunderstand that online classes are less rigorous or time-consuming. Instead, they require more self-discipline, time management and motivation to complete work. Limited interaction and access to instructors and no personal contact with other students are also common drawbacks. While effective online instructors are available via e-mail, phone and web conferencing, you don't have the same interpersonal relationship in most cases. The potential for miscommunication and misunderstandings is more prevalent online as well, especially given the lack of context and nonverbal messages in e-mail and discussion forums. In the end, I stronly believe that combining both of them is the most wise decision because you can take the best of both in order to make learning more significant to students.