Sunday, November 6, 2011
Gender Inequality and Technology
I think technology has made some great advances since I was born almost twenty years ago. Today, technology is beginning to be used more and more in the classroom. This will help students learn more at a one on one bases. When there is one teacher for a large class, many students do not get the help that they need. Many times, the teacher cannot tell that the student needs help. With technology, every student will be able to use different techniques to help them learn. Also, this helps the teacher know where each student is at. With these large classes, a majority of the questions the teacher asks will be directed towards male students. Most of the time, the teacher does not realize that they are directing it one way or another. However, it is still a problem. With technology, a teacher may become more away of one student who needs a little more help or give the entire class equal opportunity by using technology such as the clicker. Many students are keeping quiet and moseying through school. In general, girls are more talkative than guys, but more questions are directed towards the guys. Guys try to keep quiet in hopes of not being called on. However, most teachers do not call on girls for two main reasons. First, society looks at males as the leaders so they should "know" more. Secondly, once a girl starts talking, it becomes difficult to stay on task. Guys are more to the point so them answering gives more time to teach. Technology could help solve all these problems.
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I mean, it's a good point that the teacher may be more capable of knowing where the students are at. However, it also means that the teacher has limited control of class focus, so the students will usually not be working as hard to learn the material, because there are way better options to be taking advantage of on an ipad (or most other forms of technology).
ReplyDeleteI see where you are coming from that technology can help with classroom management and other areas so that students are learning more effectively. But this is not what we are discussing. We are trying to find if the gender inequality is really going to be helped my technology. I agree that we have this idea that guys have more the right answers and know more so isn't that going to be the same in technology when the guys are excelling more. I do not see technology solving the problems of gender equality with students having more equal opportunity. Guys will still have the upper hand because of how their brain's is developed.
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