Comments: iPad into the classroom is conducive to teaching or conducive to learning

According to media reports, the city of Luwan pilots iPad teaching for the next month, mainly as an aid. At the same time, in order to protect students' vision, the expert reminds that each continuous use time should not exceed 20 minutes.

With the rapid changes in electronic devices, the application of some new electronic devices to the classroom can be described as a trend. However, I believe that according to the wisdom of our ancestors, many things are too unobtrusive, and using too much will not actually have any effect. Say this iPad, according to a report in the United States "New York Times", in its invention in California, there are schools refused to introduce the iPad into the classroom. Moreover, the parents of many students in this school are the staff of technology companies, and there are many executives from Apple Inc. and Google Inc. The school’s teaching tools are very traditional. There are pens and papers, as well as needlework and even dirt. There are no computer and other technology products. Why do tech company staff allow children to receive traditional education? The reason is simple, because there is no evidence that teaching tools such as the iPad can improve students’ learning ability. Moreover, the core of teaching is communication between people, and technology products only distract people. As for the purpose of education, the key is not the indoctrination of knowledge, but the cultivation of abilities and the establishment of values. These are not what technology products can bring.

Specific to the country, some schools want to introduce iPad, iPad as a teaching aid, can make up for the lack of teaching. However, after reading relevant reports, the writer found that the so-called “repair” here is related to examinations. For example, students can use the iPad to do questions directly, so that immediately after submitting, they will know whether their answers are right or wrong. They need to be handed over to the teacher before they know whether they are right or wrong. Again, the iPad has a statistical function, in which areas a student is good at, and is not good at which aspects of the subject. Looking at it like this, the introduction of the iPad saves a lot of things for the teacher. As to whether students can learn better, it is estimated from the point of view of the question to be somewhat effective. However, the results should basically be similar to those of Americans for improving learning ability. In fact, some schools have introduced so-called advanced equipment and often benefited from teachers, such as projection equipment. With this, many teachers would be much easier to prepare for lessons, and they would copy it online.

Therefore, in addition to facilitating the use of the iPad, encouraging the examination-oriented education, reducing exchanges between classmates, and between teachers and students, the introduction of the iPad has no real benefit. Moreover, the development of technology is now becoming more and more foolish. Passing the iPad itself will not improve people's ability to use new technology products. In other words, a computer could be used to calculate a skill in the past, but now it will be nothing at all with a computer. As for the iPad, this is even more because basically it is a touch operation, as long as it is not a fool.

In the final analysis, instead of letting these new gadgets into the classroom, it is better to introduce more traditional things. After all, traditional things are more affected by modern science and technology. However, some things in traditional culture adapt to our modern life and maintain our national cultural identity. Very favorable. Such as calligraphy, with computers and mobile phones, many people can not write, the school can not open the calligraphy class, let the pen and paper into the classroom? Calligraphy is not only about writing, but also about the human nature. How well a word can be written reflects one's psychological state. In addition, there is tea art. Tea is not only a drink we usually drink, but also a culture. In such an era of turmoil, the essence of these traditional cultures is very helpful to our self-cultivation and abandoning impetuousism. Of course, these are really welcomed by students. The key is to change the status of exam-oriented education. But in any case, if we can't change the status quo and change its thinking, then we should not add another tool to encourage exam-oriented education.