Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Using Technology as a Tool
While listening to Susan Jacoby she mentioned that many people believe that technology is making us smarter. Susan explained that technology is not making us smarter and that technology should only be used as a tool. When I think about this it reminds me about the school in Manhattan, New York that Ms. Fletcher brought up in class. When I first heard Ms. Fletcher talking about this school I did not know what to think. The thought about a school teaching through videogame-based lessons raised many questions in my head. Like, is this a bad thing or a good thing ? It also scared me a little because it seems like we are just becoming more dependent on technology and that we are slowly transforming into a world like Huxley's. All day I had that question in mind and all I could think about was that this could not possibly be a good thing but after I thought about what Susan Jacoby had mentioned. Teaching through videogame-based lessons does not necessarily have to be a bad thing. If it is used in the right way and as a tool for learning I can not see how it would be a bad thing. Ofcoarse I still believe that learning through videogame-based lessons will have consequences but maybe it is not as bad as it seems.
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Yes certainly it can have consequences, there are consequences to everything you do, for example if you eat too much of one thing even if it's like broccoli it can be bad for you.
ReplyDeleteIn school you learn and are tested through tests, but there are no scantrons in real life, so how could these be used to measure our intelligence?
I think this would be a good idea, but video games aren't the right medium to use. I could go either way I'm quite unsure.
I have one question though, why would a parent risk their kid's education and send them to a school where all they did was play videogames.
Personally, video game lessons would be a good risk to take regardless of the consequences. Nowadays some kids and teenagers that even I know can barely go home and take care of their homework and studies because it seems to them as too boring and time consuming. But if lessons were based on video games for sure kids will be assumed. Yes this goes back to Postman's theory, but it may in the end cause more kids to go to college and have more success in their lives.
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