s you have figured out by now the main goal of this blog is to expose technology for all the issues it causes in higher education classrooms. My argument remains that when college students use technology in classrooms, both their education and the teachers are affected. I understand technology is important in today’s society but there is no need for it to follow students into the class room. Although many students may not agree with this statement I think it is important to truly expose technology.
Being a student I face the front of the room along with my fellow students. My teachers are always looking at their audience of inattentive students as they lecture about class material. I started this blog with the intention to flip the perspective of the student and teacher so that both sides that make up academia could see how technology is not beneficial when used in classrooms.
In the following pictures you will see how technology is used by majority of students in a college level classroom. Although these pictures do not suggest that all students misuse technology in classrooms, students who are trying to take notes are often distracted by the pictures that are appearing on their neighbors computer screen or the vibration from a recently received text message. So in the end, when technology is in a classroom it affects every student in some way. I hope these pictures also make teachers feel better about all the hunches they have had while trying to teach a class, because those hunches are most likely true when it comes to what could be going on with students and all the technology in their hands.
Although I may not be able to persuade you, I feel good knowing that these pictures will be good insight into the misuse of technology. One last thing that I would like to mention is that being able to take a picture of another person being distracted by technology is not an easy thing to do. I understand that it is a big part of my argument, so the best way I can get that part of my argument across is simply looking at the fact that I was very distracted by what was going on around me that I actually took the time to take a photo of all these events.