Discussion of the social impact of technology on teachers and students.

Technology impacts both students and teachers immensely, especially through the society you live.

You now have all students dependant on technology, if there not updating their facebook status’ their tweeting on what they had for lunch whilst texting their friend whom is sitting directly behind them in class.  

You cannot disrupt the balance by removing the technology, instead we need to grow with the times and accept technology, as it is definitely here to stay.

I remember back in 2003 when I was completing my HSC, there was no such thing as students using laptops in the classroom nor was it a familiar occurrence for students to even own mobile phones, facebook or twitter. Back then our society was not so engrossed on technology as it is today. As society grows so does our education, as our students are being born into a technology hungry world.

Due to the fact that students are born into technology, us, as teachers, need to keep up and understand how we can incorporate education and technology together. If you were to ask basically any teenager to go a day without any technology, including mobile phones, internet or computers, they could not do it, to them it would feel like we were asking them to not eat for a whole day.

So not only is technology a major impact on students, it also impacts teachers, and creates a new style and approach to learning.