Technology Takeover

One of the major topics on everyone’s mind in this day and time is technology. Technology has a hand in everything we do and the different ways we can implicate technology in our day to day life. From using them as a necessity for emergencies to using them as a luxury for gaming and social networking, we find a way to constantly use technology. With many compact devices such as smart phones and tablets, who wouldn't think that it would be the perfect idea to wholly combine it with educational needs. There are already many apps from learning a foreign language such as Japanese to learning how to play the guitar. Regardless of hobbies, how would higher educational establishment feel about introducing much more technology into their curriculum?

This blog is for linking higher education to mobile technology; its imperative to point out that the opinion of the students on a large scale is extremely warming towards technology in the classroom. Being a student myself at the University of Greenwich, studying Accounting and Financial Information Systems, I tend to agree with that opinion. However, the view of the teachers could be entirely different, in my own experience I have found lecturers react differently to the concept of mobile technology. For my project which is a part of this blog, I’ll be looking into the reactions from the teachers.  How do the teachers feel about this new nevertheless growing concept?

Keeping in mind what my focus for this blog is the classroom environment from a teacher’s perspective when technology is integrated into it. Mainly focussing on questions such as;

Could students benefit from more technology in the class?

Are there ways to control technology within the class?

How much technology should be given to a point where its too much?

Will technology one day replace teachers?

With revolutionary movements in technology, it will be intriguing to hear the views from not just teachers but students or professionals. If you do see this blog please leave a comment with your opinion and we could have some interesting conversations or debates.