Summary Classrooms, With and Without Computers

Over the past couple of decades computers have grown to play a very important part in our everyday lives. One important area where computers are beginning to take control is in education. The article, “On Classrooms, With and Without Computers”, by Stoll C. (1995), comments on how the increasing use of computers and similar technologies, like the internet, in schools around the world is actually changing education for worse, not for better. The article discusses disadvantages …showed first 75 words of 309 total…

…showed last 75 words of 309 total…with certain topics. Furthermore computers can’t identify a student’s weaknesses and can’t explain in further detail concepts which the student can’t grasp. Other disadvantages using computer based teaching methods according to the article include the lack of control in accessing undesirable material such as pornographic websites, the fact that computers usually only supply basic simplistic answers and the idea that information displayed by computers are just substitutes for real life experiences.