A student council
of the North Central high school in Indiana helped to raise up money to install
Wi-Fi internet access on school buses.
As this was tried
out, bus drivers said that these bus drives with the provided internet were
much more quiet and peaceful compared to the earlier drives without Wi-Fi
connection. Students were not pinching or shouting at each other anymore,
instead they were quietly surfing on the internet. This was done so that
students could also work on school work after classes.
The school even
offered netbooks to students that had drives longer than 60 minutes.
Superintendent
claims that students on the bus would not only use the internet for class work
but the same way the would use at home which would be surfing on the web,
chatting online etc. However, teachers assume that most of the students are
doing their homework on the bus in the morning instead of doing them the night
before at home which is not very good. Students do their homework very quick just
to have it done and don’t even learn anything from it, what they say ‘they just
don’t want to get into trouble’.
I would like to
point out that students don’t even realize in how much technology they live and
they wish to have even more.
Students come from different kind of families, some of them are used to have technology around them 24/7, others don't really need it but they get tought of having technology around them and this is how they get used to it. In other words, students that are not into technology and don't need it get easily influenced and the school provides them with so much technology that they automatically think they need it in every way.
When reading your blog I agreed with everything you said.
ReplyDeleteIn my opinion the advances of technology has benefited us as our research work became easier, and as well teachers use technology during lessons. It makes things easier. However there are students who tend to abuse technology by cheating, or becoming less social which is a great issue of our generation.
Another thing id like to say is that when reading this part of the blog I actually giggled. As when I was in Israel for a visit they had wifi connections on the bus and trains and when I got back here and sat for an hour on a bus to just get home I wished there was a way that there would be wifi on the busses when my mobile phone with 3g is without battery. But at the same time im glad we dont have it as it would just deteriorate our society even more.
Actually in some trams you can access wifi... But I agree with your point - we can get use to it very easily and 'secretly' wish to have it too.
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