Technology: Benefit or Hinderance?

There a lot of ups and downs about technology in the classroom. As we have seen in this class even, it can serve to be somewhat distracting when we've got the computers out and we are doing something that we aren't supposed to be doing. But, there are major benefits to having these computers in the classroom. One can have immediate research taken, facts can be proven or disproven, etc. It is that handle on immediacy that makes technology great.

Of course, this is just an example of modern-day technology. Other technological advances in the classroom have involved projectors and slides and refillable ink pens and pencils. They help to bring convenience and, as said before, immediacy to the task at hand. That sense of immediacy is what technological advancements are all about.