Pro’s and Con’s of Technology in Education

1. Pro’s and Con’s of Technology in Education By Caleb Auer

2. Pro’s • There are many websites that use plagiarism checkers to check if the students are plagiarizing. • Plagiarism is the number one cause of suspension in schools. • The teacher can assign different difficulty of work to different students. • Some students might not work as fast as others.

3. Pro’s • Schools can secure grants to pay for the newer technology. • This makes the technology easily affordable for poorer schools. • Students in special needs class rooms can go at their own pace while working. • Special needs students have different paces of working.

4. Pro’s • The technology is not just for the students. It is also for the teachers so that it is easier to communicate with other teachers. • The teachers need to make plans with eachother.

5. Con’s • Some student will go off track when they are doing research, and they will go to inappropriate websites • You can easily get off track when doing your work. • Not all lessons have things that match up with it online • Don’t plan on something being online for your lesson plan.

6. Con’s • Special needs technology can be very expensive. • Even though this technology is easier to use it is very expensive because demand is low. • Classroom laptops must be replace every 2 or 3 years • Laptops are easily broken, therefore, they have to be replaced.

7. Con’s • Training for the use of computers can be costly and time consuming. • The students and teachers have to learn how to use the technology. It takes time out of the day to learn this stuff.

8. Video • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kx9teghRcPc • This is a very affective strategy for teaching the team how to come together no matter what. It showed what happened to the people who fought against each other.

9. My Articles • http://www.ehow.com/about_5384898_pros-cons-technology-classroom.html • https://blog.writecheck.com/2011/11/20/pros-and-cons-of-technology-in-education/