2007年2月9日
Digital Distraction
Every coin has two sides. While we enjoy the convinience brought by Advanced technology, we also have to take a serious thinking on the problems it has brought or might bring to us. From my personal experience here at NIE, it’s really attempting to surf with my laptop rather than take notes of what teachers say, though I seem to take notes seriously and ponder on them. And I believe most of my classmates have the same experience. Mostly it is not because that the lecture is not interesting or informative enough. So in this situation as described by the writer, technology keep us away from concentrating on lecture. But, technology is not to blame. Whether it can serve classroom teaching well depends on how we make use of it. Maybe, in future teaching practice, this will be one of the prblems that I must face. I believe banning the use of laptop when it’s not necessary, when lectures are going on, is a good way to solve this problem. Or maybe, by some technological means, we can control students’ access to internet or the content they can access.
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I agree with you that banning laptop use at class when it is not necessary.
But what about necessary use of laptop at class? How can we control or make sure that students are not doing the right thing?
yes, the use of laptops should be suitable to the teaching needs and situations.or it will be a block to the effective classroom learning.
I wish what you suggested "banning the use of laptop when it’s not necessary" could be realized. But how can we decide when is the appropriate time to ban the laptop use in class. Or who has the right to ban it?
So far I cannot see any good way to solve this problem. Just as you mentioned "maybe by some technological means", we wish we could control students’ access to internet in class.
Dear cheng yanping
Actually, what you said reminds me sth. In my univeristy, some departments have already got some technological means to ban the comupter use in class. That means teachers can have the control over the computers. But it is a pity I do not know exactly how, maybe I can get touch with some former collegues for more information about that.
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