Impacts of Technology in Education

Impacts of Technology in Education
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Impacts of Technology in Education
Introduction
It is no doubt that technological advancements have come with several improvements in the field of education in the world today. These changes range from electronic books, electronic mails, online classes, and online libraries, as well as the use of video games to enhance learning. All these improvements appear to have had positive impacts on education. However, some scholars have come out to criticize the digitalization of education in the modern world. One such scholar is Baron Baron (2014), who feels that electronic reading poses a more significant threat to humanity studies. Other scholars such as Larson (2015) and Marc Prensky (2001) have, however, praised the digitalization of education, citing that teachers should be challenged to change their style of teaching to conform to the current technology. Through discussion of the above scholars' arguments, this paper shall, therefore, justify why the digital education system is the way to go and how e-learning can be modified to support humanities.
Impacts of Technology in Reading
To start with, Baron (2014) main argument in her article How E-Reading Threatens Learning in the Humanities is that electronic learning does not favor in-depth reading. She, therefore, claims that studies such as humanities require deep reading an something that cannot be achieved through electronic text. Some of the reasons that Baron (2014) uses to justify her arguments include the idea that print reading allows an individual to write some short notes on the pages being read and thus improving retaining. This reason, according to Larson (2015), does not hold waters. Instead, Larson (2015) argument on the same in his article The Learning Potential of e-Books is entirely the opposite of Baron (2014)'s reasoning. Larson (2015) argues that most electronic books facilitate students with the option of creating digital notes with the help of note-taking tools, thus improving learners' understanding of the concepts.
Larson (2015) even goes further to affirm that e-learning plays a very significant role in improving confidence in struggling readers. This is because they come with audio assistance that assists learners in pronunciation. Besides, e-learning also gives struggling readers a chance to maneuver through several titles on online libraries to find texts that suit them and avoid difficult ones. This way, the learners get to interact more with the texts as opposed to sticking with hard passages, which makes them bored and thus spending less time when reading. Apart from the benefits that come with electronic reading, there is a single negative thing that digitalization has caused and is yet to be mitigated. This issue, according to Baron (2014), is the distraction. Baron (2014) argues that with the presence of several tabs open in the electronic gadgets used for electronic reading, learners' concentration gets to be distracted, as they are likely to shift from one tab to the other.
With the observation made from the two authors whose arguments have been discussed before, it is, therefore, convincible to argue that technology in education has both positive and negative impacts on lear...