...Our world has changed a lot since the 1800’s mainly because of computers. They’ve revolutionized our world to where you can simply look up what you want instead of scouring the library for your needed material. Laptops seem to have everything, nothing really bad about them. Except distractions. Some people think that laptops are great and cause no real distraction. But most think that laptops are bad because of all the access people have, and how it can be used. While technology does have its benefits, in the classroom laptops are harming students. Computers are a distraction. In the article “Computers Use Distracting” is shows a quote,” students are often distracted by whatever they’re doing on the computer.” Often times when your doing schoolwork online, you always tend to get dragged into the distraction that are much more frequent in the newer technology. Laptops are more harming to students than helping because you have just an open area of doing whatever you want on a computer, but not staying on task and staying undistracted. Another article called, “Attention, Students; Put Your Laptops Away.” a...
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...to their students not only include teaching them, but also giving them an environment that they can learn in. Edward is a student who is having trouble completing his work. This paper’s purpose is to identify what is exactly distracting him and how we can help him focus on completing his work through effective room arrangement. Minimizing Distractions Edward is a little over eight years old, is in the third grade, and continually has trouble keeping focus on his work. This leads him to being unable to complete his work and can be caused by three possible distractions. The Iris Center Star Sheet says, “Items (windows, doors, aquariums, etc.), equipment (computer, overhead projectors, etc.), and individuals (reading groups, adjacent peers, etc.) can be distracting (Evertson, Emmer, & Worsham, 2003)” (Evertson & Poole, n.d.). The first distraction that Edward encounters is the window. With many different grades and classes, in addition to weather changes, Edward can easily be distracted seeing a gym class outside the window or younger students having their recess at the time. An easy way to solve this distraction is to get blinds for the windows (unless they already have some) and pull it over so he cannot see the other students outside. With Edward in his current position, the second distraction he is facing would be the computer. He could easily get distracted if the teacher is using the computer to input grades, or another student is using the computer to complete...
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...has just been blown out of the water the last couple of year. Four years ago, if any of the students in class had a phone, it was a dial-phone that maybe they could text on. And now , it’s all smartphones. It’s been an issue in schools, colleges, and universities across the country for quite some time. In fact, cellular phones were an early problem when students were distracted by phone calls and texts messaging, but now smartphones can do just about anything your computer or laptop can, but in an easily concealable handheld device. Assalamualaikum and a very good morning to our respective teachers and my fellow friends. Today I will be talking about the effects of smartphones. Smartphones is a cellular phone that performs many of the functions of a computer, typically having a touchscreen interface, Internet access, and an operating system capable of running downloaded applications. Nowadays, most of the students own smartphones. According to an article posted in Trends in Ed, 50% of students own it. The use of phones is usually discouraged on the first day of class by teachers and professors, or talked about in the class syllabus with consequences for even the first infraction. After all, since smartphones pretty much allow you to do anything you want these days, having them in the classroom might be distracting students more than ever. Smartphones allow students to text, check, and interact on social networking sites such as Facebook, Myspace, and Twitter...
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...the bad. Even though technology could be a distraction in the classroom, it could also be a helpful source. Having a computer right in front of you through the entire class period, you will want to get on the internet and use it, whether it’s school related or not. Assigning computers in the classroom could be a distraction to many students. No matter what the situation is technology will always be a distraction in the classroom. Right when students get into the classroom they immediately login to the computer, get onto the Internet and login to either Facebook, or their E-Mail. As for myself, I use to get into the classroom, log on into Facebook and spend most of my time on the Internet; I paid nearly no attention to the professor. I saw myself slacking off almost every day. Actually, students that showed up to class would immediately get on the Internet (browsing non-related classwork) till class was over. According to Christine Careage a journalist “Technology is disengaging students instead of engaging them” (Careage, 2010). Many students are careless about the lecture and are focused on what is new on the Internet. Students aren’t doing well in class because they’re too busy exploring the Internet and it’s definitely a problem. Even students, who don’t go on the Internet as much as other student’s, see the person in front of them doing whatever on the computer, and it’s a distraction. Exploring the internet during class non-stop made me realize that it made me less knowledgeable...
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...Meagan Donnelly William S. Durden English 102 March 21, 2013 Smartphones and the Social Life On October 17th, 1973 we made a huge leap forward in communication. The first mobile phone call was made by a company known then and now as Motorola. Mobile phones were not widely known of until the mid-80’s and were not even carried and used by many individuals until the early 90’s. Stated by the U.N. Telecom Agency; now, in 2013 103.9% of the United States population uses a cell phone! That means some people carry more than one cell phone and many young children are carrying phones as well. According to Jennifer Ludden, on average a child has a cell phone by the age of eight, and a smart phone by the age of fourteen. Cell phones have now become the main means of communication, and not necessarily through phone calls. People are most commonly communicating through text, whether it be text messaging, emailing, or with social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr. People are now able to do a countless amount of tasks from their cell phones. You will commonly hear many people say “there’s an app for that!”. Essentially referring to the fact that you don’t need to go to the library or ask a friend for information that you are not knowledgeable of, you can just browse the web on your phone, or download an app that will have what you are looking for. You may be thinking that this gives people more time during the day to do more important daily tasks, like spend time with...
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...Of course to have technology they need to have internet for most things to work. Schools must block certain websites so students do not get distracted. These websites would be like social medias, inappropriate websites, and websites that could communicate with other people. Schools block these websites because they are distracting for kids in the classroom, students can could talk to strangers and endanger them and the school, and certain websites could damage the computer by viruses. When having the option to listen to the teacher or get on their phones most students will get on their phones. It might seem that schools wouldn’t have to block social media considering they could go on during a nonintrusive time but, students will still check their social media feeds during class. The school must block social media because those apps are most used on a student's phone. “92% of teens that are ages 13-17 and have a phone go online to social media everyday” (Teens and Social Media). Students will also go on other websites to look at online shopping. If students can not access these websites to get distracted then they can pay attention better....
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...keywords to help the audience focus on your message - Don't include too many details and data (no more than 7 words to a line and 7 lines to a slide) - Don't crowd the information - Don't use flashy or curvy fonts - Don't use all uppercase letters (they are difficult to read and will appear to your audience that you are yelling) - Don't use abbreviations - Don't use punctuation marks for bulleted items Noise Effects Noise Effects - Use sounds to help convey, complement, or enhance the message - Don't use sounds when they aren't appropriate - Sounds can be distracting and can make your presentation less effective Color Color - Limit the use of color to 2 to 4 colors/shades - Use colors that will stand out and will be easy on the eyes (dark backgrounds and light text is best) - Remember, the colors projected from a data projector will look different than the colors on your computer screen - Don't have multiple color schemes - Don't use dark colors on a dark background (red, blue, and black should not be used together as text and background) Online Resources: http://graphicdesign.about.com/library/color/blweb.htm http://www.colormix.com/ Images and Shapes Images and Shapes - Include images that make the issue you are presenting more true to life, so your audience will understand and identify with it - Only include 1 to 2 images per slide - Use shapes to illustrate complex topics - Don't use too many graphics (can...
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...Chapter IV Presentation, Analysis and Interpretation of Data This chapter deals with the presentation, analysis, and interpretation of data gathered from the responses of the 271 respondents. The data are presented by tables and discussion of findings on the mainly on the problem of the study. Table 1 Age Number of respondents Percentage 15-17 73 26.94 18-20 155 57.20 21 up 43 15.86 Total 271 100% This table shows that 73 respondents or 26.94% out of 271 respondents from first year to third year has the age of 15-17, 155 respondents or 57.20% out of 271 respondents has the age of 18-20, and 43 respondents or 15.86% out of 271 respondents has the age of 21 and above. Gender Number of respondents Percentage male 57 21.03 female 214 78.96 Total 271 100% Table 2 This table shows that 57 respondents or 21.03% out of 271 respondents from first year to third year are male and 214 respondents or 78.96% out of 271 respondents are female. Part I Question #1 Number of respondents Percentage First year 92 33.95 Second year 79 29.15 Third year 100 36.90 Total 271 100% This table shows that 92 respondents or 33.95% out of 271 respondents are first year, 79 respondents or 29.15% are second year, and 92 respondents or 33.95% are third year. Question #2 Number of respondents Percentage Public 266 98.15 Private 5 1.85 Total 271 100% This table shows that 266 respondents or 98.15%...
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...CHARACTER TRAITS OF A GOOD STUDENT There are many character traits of a good student. A few are: study habits, not procrastinating, and taking notes. If a student takes these traits and applies them to his student life they will benefit him and make him a good student. Good study habits are very important in a student’s life. There are a lot of ways a student can study. Making note cards or studying over class notes, taken during the week are very good ways to study for an upcoming test or quiz. Also studying away from the television, computer, cell phone, and other distracting things is a good way to study. Procrastinating is a very serious thing that every student should avoid to become a better student. Going ahead of time and getting assignments done is a good way to avoid procrastinating. Another way to avoided procrastinating is to start on your homework and studying as soon as you get home from school. Also taking advantage of study halls and other short breaks to get ahead on assignments is another great way to avoided procrastinating. Taking good notes is a very important thing to do to become a good student. Listening in class and writing notes off the board is a very good way to get good notes. Making sure your notebook is neat an ordered is another important thing to have done to be able to look back and understand what was said in class. Asking another student for notes missed on an absent day is a very good way to have great notes. If a student applies himself with...
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...Information and Communication Technology (ICT), it has become a lot simpler to teach and to learn. The evolvement of the computer has helped both students and teachers, as it has become a lot simpler to teach and a lot more practical to do so. Some suitable examples of this are as follows:- a) Textbooks The days of carrying around numerous different textbooks on a variety of different subjects have virtually disappeared. Nowadays, the same amount of information required is available, in a few textbooks, which are accompanied by compact disks (CD-ROMs). (This is reinforced by the fact that in future the Encyclopaedia Britannica will no longer be available in book form, but on CD-ROMs). The CD ROMs that accompany the text books often have MS PowerPoint slides with them and teachers can easily adapt these slides to suit their own teaching requirements. These CD-ROMs also contain data files that are suitable subject examples, and these can be used by both the teacher and the student. This serves two purposes:- 1) It reduces the time required by the teacher in researching suitable examples of the relevant subject. 2) It provides the student with suitable examples that they can practise with to determine that they have actually understood the relevant subject b) Software packages With the introduction of Microsoft Office both the teacher and the student have access to user-friendly and cost-effective software that can be used to write assignments (MS Word), produce statistics...
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...school budgets. In order for a school to successfully integrate technology, there must be a replacement or updating plan in place to keep technology updated and useful. Because of connection problems, downloading issues, illegal software and other difficulties, teachers can sometimes stop using it simply because the lack of time. To lose the 10 minutes period just because of connectivity issues is not fair, and it's one of the main reasons for the failure of technology integration in schools To sum up, technology can be powerful learning and educating tool, but schools must first ask themselves if they have the resources, not only the material but also human resources, to afford and maintain such expensive equipment . This can lead to students and teachers competing for such resources, which can only affect badly to the school environment. While technology can be a great...
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...introduced to computers, and told we would need to know how to use these when we were older. In reality, I have been born and raised in an era where technology is viewed more as a machine and not as the thriving life source of our community as it is now. Today we have digital technology everywhere; in our pockets, in our homes, in our cars, for some - even in their glasses. We are never too far from our technology or the access to social media it possesses. Social media is taking over our world. Now is this a good or bad thing? My answer to that is it always has been and always will be – there is no wrong or right. Meaning that technology and media in itself has always been progressing and digital media is just another step. Today’s media is in an ever progressing state, and it will continue to grow; such is the nature of media and social relations in themselves. Technology today has given us the ability to interact with one another much differently than we have in the past, it also has reached new heights in our ability to share and distribute knowledge, but one of the biggest problems is that of the generation gap between the technologically savvy and the technologically dim. Media is an ever-changing presence in our world today. It tends to get argued that it is all consuming and distracting, but in reality we as a society choose how to use technology and we decide what technology will do for us not the other way around. Some people believe that the internet is too distracting and takes...
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...Summary In instructions and usability testing assignment, I tested the UNH student’s ability to connect to the UNH secure network based on the instruction I wrote. In this project, six UNH students participated, there of them were from class and the remaining three were out of class students. In overall, out of class testing went faster than in-class testing, mainly because for out-of-class testing, the instruction was revised based on feedback from fellow classmates. In both in-class and out-of-class testing, there weren’t any network or computer problems and everything went as planned, and everyone finished the task under 4 minutes (table 1). In average, in-class testing toke 216 seconds (3 minutes and 36 seconds), while out-of- class testing...
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...sound. It involves more than just inserting a computer into the classroom, and asking the class to research a topic. While this very well might be a task asked of the student; the teacher has far more to consider. Classroom integration involves such thing as the network environment, hardware and software and software tools, and how these things are used to benefit the lesson plan. Technology that is just thrown into the mix without a purpose and desired outcome can be counterproductive. This planning and understanding of the uses of technology in the classroom is what will be one of the biggest challenges in creating the best learning environment for my students. ENVIROMENT Technology integration begins with the hardware. Computers, projectors, laptops, tablets, whiteboards and other devices give me the tools I need to fold technology into the classroom. One of the biggest questions in this aspect is “How do I get information to the devices?”. This involves setting up a network to deliver information and the internet to the students. There are several ways to accomplish this with one using a hard wired network, and the other using a wireless network. Each has their own pros and cons that must be weighed. The hardwired network while offering a more stable environment also ties computers and peripherals to certain locations, and the required wires could become a tripping hazard. On the other hand a wireless network allows the computers and peripherals to be used around the classroom...
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...speech sounds and uses harmless radio waves to send these to one or more FM receivers, which a child wears behind the ear (e.g. connected to their hearing aids). The result? The child hears the speaker’s words directly in their ears, without any distracting background noise, allowing them to enjoy and participate fully in a conversation” (phonak.com) It has often been used for students that are mostly or partially deaf but is becoming more prevalent in classrooms, not only for those students with hearing difficulties, but those with ADHD or autism. The reasoning behind why the FM listening systems work is because they do cut out a lot of the outside or background noise. It helps a student that may be having difficulties with concentration, focus better and not become easily distracted. These systems are also able to be hooked up straight to a computer and the computer program speak to them just like it would through headphones. For a student that needs something to help them hear better, focus more, or guide them as they go through school, this could be the tool. Based on a journal reading, “the studies that have been conducted are encouraging for autism students in a classroom but they have also been high functioning students” (The Hearing Journal). They found they...
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