research 1

Research 1

Source:
Can Computers Replace Teachers?
http://ideas.time.com/2012/01/26/can-computers-replace-teachers/

My Topic:
The smart classroom that computers teach students is not efficient.

What I hope to learn from this source:
I want to find specific facts that affect students negatively, and objective evidence that computers are not helpful for students.

Notes:

1. Interactive whiteboards have been around since the early 1990s and done little to transform how teachers teach, and computers are often unaligned with classroom instruction, even though 90% of classrooms around the country have them.
2. Many teachers are not familiar with technology or how to use it in the classroom, and high-quality training programs — either in schools of education or as part of a teachers’ ongoing professional development — are rare.
3. Despite Dreambox’s overall good functionality, there are places where students can become frustrated — not because they don’t know how to do the underlying math, but because the directions for the online activity are confusing. 
4. Still, according to Department of Education data from 2009, just 61% of students use computers to prepare texts “sometimes or often” and just 45% do more complicated tasks, for instance to “solve problems, analyze data, or perform calculations” on a regular basis.

Final Thoughts:

This source was very helpful but I want to know about students' experiences of using computers to study.