Using technology in the classroom..

    
    I found an extensive news article about a school that replaced most of its books with Ipads. An entire class of fifth graders would be the first in the school to take their tests, do there reading and classwork on an Apple Ipad. The purpose of doing this is to see in over the course of a year that the students would actually be gaining from the technology. Off the bad the teachers notice the students are paying attention more and more interested in being active in class.
     In my opinion teaching students this way is a terrible idea. Rapidly younger generations are losing the abilities to do simple tasks without relying on technology. Technically were making them dumber, because if there was ever an instance where they cannot rely on some sort of electronic gizmo, there doomed. I see children younger than 8 with an Iphone, because there parent wants to be able to stay in contact with them. What they dont realize is they are feeding into bad habits, that child not only can talk to the parent, but perhaps Facetime with some classmates. That's going to lead to trouble because children are not mature enough to do the right thing with technology like that.