According to the readings, 70% of us spend an hour each day online and most of us have high speed internet. Technology is taking over more and more as the years go on and it is making more of an impact on us than we think. Days in the classroom are very different than what they were before, now students are bent over laptops instead of desks. As I was reading in "Reading 3," I read that at Kyrene School District their desks are covered in laptops and interactive screens. "The district has invested roughly $33 million in such technologies." The school districts are spending an enormous amount on these technologies and keep raising the bar for districts that might not have that much money to spend on technology in the classroom. The digital devices allow the students to work at their own pace and become very independent.
On the other hand, this technology every day is having the students not have as much student to student interaction or student to teacher interaction. I think this will highly impact the students in the long run with how they interact in the "real world." The school districts are getting higher number of students which end up needing more technology, meaning more and more money spent. Studies have shown that students test score have been rising since this technology came about. Also, in "Reading 3," it discusses how class sizes have risen and the teachers are no longer able to stay effective in teaching everybody because of the higher class sizes.
