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Does modern technology help students learn more information and learn it
more quickly?
Marvelous as it looks at first sight, modern technology does not help
students learn information at a greater speed and with higher efficiency in most
cases; or it could work towards the opposite direction which led students to
lose their initiative to learn and explore.
First of all, one property of modern technology is latently harmful to any
learning mind – it distracts. One thing we feel about when we are searching for
information online is that the internet, as an outstanding example of modern
technology and even regarded as the innovator of education, provides us with not
only relevant results to make use of, but also external links to click. More
than once I turned on my computer to check school library for resources, but
ended up watching Youtube videos. In this case, computer as a representative of
modern technology plays a negative role in learning information. We do acquire
more information with the convenient tool, yet most of them are irrelevant and
in the end procrastinating would lower our learning.
Also, students would easily become disoriented in the huge sea of
information. Although modern technology could equip us with easy access to
information, the huge amount of resources would actually leave us
discombobulated. Therefore, it is only we possess information more quickly
rather than we learn it more quickly. An illustrating example is my experience
with a HK digital library which stores almost all the books I desire. At first I
enjoyed downloading them from the database, however, one month later I ended up
with hundreds of books stored in my hardware yet none of them finished or ever
clicked.
Furthermore, modern technology gives students an illusion that information
and real knowledge is easy to learn – just by clicking mouse or watching videos.
But in fact this forms only the first step towards useful information and
effective learning, as learning of any kind requires full concentration and
interactive thinking, which are almost absent in the pocess of popular
e-learning experience.
To summarize, modern technology does not help students learn more
information and learn it more quickly, though it does make access to information
and resources much more easily. The popular e-learning still lacks the
concentration, depth, and interaction that are the hallmark of traditional ways
of educating and learning.
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发表于 2016-7-10 15:25:18