How is technology affecting learning and tradicional schools in England?

To what extent is technology affecting learning in the uk?How is technology affecting learning and tradicional schools in England?
The real problem is that technology is being largely ignored by many students. In recent years the internet and wonderful world wide web has opened up a very easy source of research and communication. When your parents and grandparents went to school and had a homework assessment task they had to ask others, visit a library or get the big set of encyclopedias out. Now students have the answer at their fingertips, but do they use it? No of course not, most students just use technology to socially interact. Of course I am hugely generalising here but this is affecting learning. Students ignore the best that the web has to offer and I as a parent, and teacher cannot believe the ignorance that some teens prefer to live in when the answer is a click away.

The only way to truly determine how technology is affecting learning is to take it away for a while. Imagine if this happened, most adults would function completely normally - but most under the age of twenty something would not be able to cope.

Students have forgotten how to spell, structure, paragraph, formalise a discussion or argument, use pronouns and prepositions, be polite, how to speak to others in the relevant tone/style (because they message instead). They have forgotten how to be patient and wait for those things that matter (we live in an instant world) and would rather queue for the latest video game release than get an education.How is technology affecting learning and tradicional schools in England?
This is a big topic.



Every school has computers and, usually they are networked.



Students can therefore access all sorts of learning resources using them, although internet access may be strictly controlled.



Associated technology, such as interactive whiteboards, are also becoming more widespread.



It can also be argued that these developments have forced improvements in the standard, traditional text book.



All this means that the students' learning experience should be improving, but much still depends on the quality of the face-to-face teaching received and this can be variable.