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By: Leah, Logan, Krystal and Shannon

Do Computers Negatively Affect Student Growth? . By: Leah, Logan, Krystal and Shannon. Computers Negatively affect student growth in different areas: How students learn Student health How a student’s mind works Computer software is a poor teaching tool. How students learn.

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By: Leah, Logan, Krystal and Shannon

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  1. Do Computers Negatively Affect Student Growth? By: Leah, Logan, Krystal and Shannon

  2. Computers Negatively affect student growth in different areas: • How students learn • Student health • How a student’s mind works • Computer software is a poor teaching tool

  3. How students learn • Younger students learn through experiences, not by learning facts • Children need to use 3D world to learn • Negatively affects student growth • Developmental • Mental • Physical

  4. Ideas aren’t created by information

  5. Facts vs. Knowledge

  6. A supplemental teaching aid • Connecting People (Skype) • Google Earth (geographical examples) • Stimulating Games • Computer can provide scaffolding which makes a student more independent • Immediate feedback

  7. Computers are Poor Teaching Tools • Poor model of reality • Poor software • Affordability • Outdated • Bugs • Constant change • Inappropriate material • No advances in academic performance • Distractions

  8. Not poor teaching tools, just how they are being used • Teacher training issues • Age-appropriate software brings benefits • ESOL/ESE • Filtering software • Smaller class sizes and differentiated instruction

  9. Health • Physical and developmental effects • Eyestrain and myopia • Carpal tunnel syndrome • Poor imaginative and creative abilities • Cognitive development • Stunted Brain Growth • Social and emotional development • Cannot replace human interaction • Attention span reduced

  10. Minimize screen time (1-2 hr.) • Educational software can bring benefits to: • Hand-eye coordination • Reaction time • Social interaction (when used cooperatively) • Increases long term memory and manual dexterity • Ergonomics Here

  11. How a Student’s Mind Works • Less self discovery • Young children learn through tactile methods • Differences in student backgrounds • Teacher choice in educational methods • Exposure

  12. Less self discovery but more access to information • Public schools are not pressured to find the most effective ways to input technology • The business model is not accepted in education

  13. Sources • "Do Computers Hinder Young Children's Development?" Early Childhood (June 2001). Brookes Publishing Co. Paul H. Brookes Publishing Co., Inc. Reviewed 9 April, 2012 (http://www.pbrookes.com/email/archive/june01/june01EC4.htm) • Edwards, Laurie. "Computers In Preschool: Hurting or Helping?" Education.com. Reviewed 7 April, 2012 (http://www.education.com/magazine/article/preschoolers-computers-bottom-line/) • Halpert, Julie. "IChildren: How Apple Is Changing Kids' Brains." The Fiscal Times. 21 March, 2012. Reviewed 9 April, 2012 (http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/Articles/2012/03/21/iChildren-How-Apple-Is-Changing-Kids-Brains.aspx#page1) • Henry, Julie. "Ban computers from school until children reach age 9, says expert." TheTelegraph [London] 13 June 2010, Reviewed 19 April, 2012 (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/primaryeducation/7823259/Ban-computers-from-schools-until-children-reach-age-9-says-expert.html) • Hess, Frederick M. 2012. “Do Computers Negatively Affect Student Growth?” Pp. 325-31 in Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Educational Issues. 6th ed. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill. • Monke, Lowell. 2012. “Do Computers Negatively Affect Student Growth?” Pp. 318-24 in Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Educational Issues. 6th ed. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill. • Young, Mary E. "Technology and Early Child Development." TechKnowLogia. September 2001. Reviewed 7 April, 2012 (http://www.techknowlogia.org/TKL_Articles/PDF/314.pdf)

  14. A short summary http://www.mff.org/publications/publications.taf?page=269

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