The article “With “Vizit” Elementary Students can Share Pictures…” by David Warlick talks about a new technology that will supposedly revolutionize education. The “Vizit” allow elementary school students to share pictures with the others across the room or even around the world. It also has 3G broad band. The price for this device is 279.99 plus the addition of a monthly payment. Warlick talks about this as a helpful tool to possibly help autistic kids, but overall it would be a waste of money and the kids would still end up writing and with a pencil and paper.
From my perspective I think the way teachers think they need all of this technology to make education better and interesting is ridiculous. Teachers may try to make education fun or have meaning or involvement; but truth is school is school. I don’t think peoples’ minds are going to change about learning just because there’s a piece of technology that’s involved. Students still have to learn the same material no matter what. So why does changing how you learn it matter that much? At my school all of the class rooms had Smart boards. Some teachers definitely took good use out of them, but usually it was primarily used as a projector and a white board. So why was the extra money spent to do just that? I mean it’s not like there was a dramatic change. So they could show us things and then write on the material. Whoa guys, that’s a huge revolution I’m glad we spent our money well (sarcasm).
I think we should stick to old fashion textbooks, pencil and paper. Apparently something was wrong with that so we had to make computers so it’s not so hard on us. Then again it’s probably because we’re getting so lazy to do anything anymore. Think about this; would you rather check Facebook, or go take a walk? Maybe we should go backwards in time instead of forward; and think about what our necessities in life really are.
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