Technology in class

If you didn’t have a laptop, tablet or mobile phone in class, how would your learning be different? Nowadays, technology is present in our classes and many students carry laptop, tablet or mobile phone, which has advantages and disadvantages.

On the one hand, one of the advantages of using laptop or tablet is that you can use it as a digital notebook to take notes faster and follow the teacher's explanation easier. Furthermore, it is a good way of saving paper. This is very important because saving paper is vital for the planet. Another advantage is the immediacy because if you need information about something you can search for it at the same moment. Furthermore, if you take a laptop or tablet to class, you will weigh less than if you carry a backpack with many books. Currently, teachers also use new technologies to explain. They use internet and some gadgets like power point or prezzi… to prepare the subject and expose it in their classes.

 On the other hand, the technologies have some disadvantages because they are expensive, for example. Also keep in mind that new technologies can be difficult for some old teachers. Many of them prefer to continue using paper because they don’t understand the use of certain software or they don’t know how to use the PC. The biggest disadvantage of new technologies in class is that they can produce many distractions, especially with the use of mobile phone, because of it is forbidden in class:  it causes many distractions and it hasn’t anyadvantage in learning. 

 When I was a school student I didn’t like to use laptops because they were a waste of time and they weren’t as advanced as nowadays they are. However, when I have started studying at university I like using them apart from the text book because they are very useful.In short, laptops and tablets have started a new way of studying, based on technology which is stronger every day.