What Is Going On?

I’m currently 15 years old attending high school & over the years mine and many other schools are slowly transitioning to the advancement of technology but is it working? Here I am to tell you from a first hand experienced perspective of how students use technology at school.

What Schools Imagine What It’s Like

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Every student is provided with a computer of sorts (e.g. laptops & iPads), it saves paper and it can be more efficient learning because it will hopefully attract the kid/teen to interact and study with the work. There are educational applications that can vastly help students collaborate, work efficiently or just assist the student with work.

What It’s Actually Like

Student on Facebook http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Education/Pix/pictures/2012/1/4/1325692222021/Student-reads-facebook-in-007.jpg

I’m sorry but it’s not working entirely that way, yet. Students will start off with doing the work in class but when work gets boring, students start procrastinating. We will try and find the answers on the internet, watch YouTube, go on Facebook using proxies, shop for clothes, read Tumblr, surface Reddit and some hide their phones in their pencil cases and start Snapping (Snapchat) in class. These are some of the activities that go on with most students, not all.