Technology in the Classroom

Do you think technology in the classroom encourages or hinders exploration or creativity in students?

                                             
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I feel like technology in the classroom is a good thing but it also depends on what it is used for and who is using it. Younger children should be encouraged to use their own creativity with out the help of technology when creating projects that are suppose to show their own personal creativity. They can be influenced by the technology and end up not using their own ideas and therefor stopping their ability to be creative on their own. Technology is helpful when they are doing educational programs and activities on the technology but should be monitored so they only have a specific amount of time on the computer or other sort of technology. For older students like in high school and middle school where they already had an opportunity to be creative on their own with out technology they should have the chance to use technology in the classroom, because by that point in students lives they have already discovered if they are very creative or not. They also already have had to learn to use other resources other than the internet so they should be more up to date with the way people now in days find out information on the internet. Technology is a very useful resource when it comes to looking up information and gathering facts on topics that the students are learning about. They should have that resource available to them so they can further their learning but should not take advantage of it when coming up with creative concepts of presenting the information they have learned. Technology in the classroom is a good thing but also depending on what it is used for can be harmful because of the stunt in children's ability to use their own mind to create something new and exciting rather than getting the idea to do a project in a way they saw online.