Responding to “Digital Distractions in a Wireless Classroom"

This article reminds me of the traditional classroom, in which the teachers try their best with the help of voices, gestures, facial expressions, instant interaction with students to convey the knowledge to students. But now, the scenario has changed to computer-aided teaching.

Every classroom is decorated with technology. It is a fashion. If some teachers are still using the old method, it seems odd. Here I don’t mean it is not good to use technology in the classroom. Teaching benefits a lot from the digital technology.

But technology brings the benefits, at the same time, it leads to some problems, too. Education and the advance of the society interact with each other. Education motivates the development of the society, but if we can not apply the education in an appreciate way, some problems may appear, as the example in this article.

So my question is “is this wireless classroom the technology problem or education problem”?

I think most of us would agree that this is not the problem of the technology or science, but because we don’t apply technology in the proper way.

Therefore, I suggest the following:
1. Schools arrange the digital literacy course for students to raise their awareness.
2. Schools and families work together to regulate the time, space and situation on the use of the computer.
3. Traditional etiquette education should be strengthened both at school and in families as well.
4. Perhaps most important of all, the whole society should work together to protect the innocent young students in the Internet.