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“Increasing reliance on the use of new technologies in the classroom has distracted from, rather than contributed to, the learning process.”

The increase of technologies has aided the development of the education system. Digital gaming and social networking technologies have helped develop outside the box thinking and communication skills for the students. Using social networking skills can help you stay in tune with your students and their parents.

Three advantages have been found regarding technology in the classroom including:

> Three advantages have been found regarding technology in the classroom including:
 * Educators should use technology in the classroom because its wide range of uses and forms has the potential to reach students of all learning styles, as well as be more efficient.
 * The interest and motivation that technology induces in students makes its usage in schools important.
 * Educators better prepare students for the future when using technology aimed at addressing each learning style.

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Eric Klopfer, Scot Osterweil, Jennifer Groff, Jason Haas © copyright 2009. The Education Arcade Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Folks, please read p. 7-10 of your textbook. It provides oppulence of information and literature on the topic. Otherwise, please have my notes below... Clues: I researched the online dbase Academic Search Premier keywords: technol*, learn*, impair, obstruct, distract, hinder

An increasing amount of literature proliferates the use, impact and benefits of technology in education. An avalanch of research strives to prove the usefullness of technology in education. After the first wave of enthsiasm surrounding technology, scholars start scrutinizing the real impact of technology in the classroom. One of the most persistent and obvious negative impact is the disruptive presence of cell phones (e.g., Burns and Lohenry, 2010). However, scholars start looking at the wider and deeper impact of technology on the learning process. At the 2003 conference of Educause, the leading U.S. organization for technology in education, it is aknowledged that social side effect of ubiquitous technology is persistent partial attention or the inability to focus on a single task because of our growing susceptibility to distractions (Taylor, 2003). Moreover, theoris are emerging, searching a structured explanation behind the necessity to approach technology implication in conseqential manner (Okojie et al, 2006). English language scholars explain the issue of technology distraction from the perspective of "underculture" and emphasize that instead of demonizing it, instructors need to understand it and internalize it in the learning process (Mueller, 2009). In the same fashion, scholars underline that there is not such fact as multitasking and prioritizing in the classroom must include sometimes exlusion of technology (Gasser and Palfrey, 2009).

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Bandy Increasing reliance on technology has become a distraction for most schools but not in the sense of incorporating but rather than eliminating it. In the school systems where we will be teaching there isn't much fostering the use of technology they rather see it eliminated and use the old school style of teaching. Rather than have a parent's phone number to shoot them a text or have a facebook group set up for their class they rather just send a paper document home and hope the student decided to give it to their parent. Facebook and other social networking websites are completely blocked on all of the school computers around the school even youtube is eliminated so imagine how hard it is for a teacher that wants to try and use websites like these when they can't access them from their work computers. If you want to access youtube or any other website that is restricted you need a special password from the school administration that is automatically regenerated to something different each week. So rather than embrace any of these technologies they have spent countless hours and money to work on eliminating it completely so in summary it has become way too much of a distraction. Poitra, B., (2011), Formal Thoughts on Social Networking, Collection of Formal Thoughts, 22(3), 50-62.