In my opinion, I believe that ubiquitous access should impact teaching and learning. Without immediate access to the internet, we are limiting our ability to learn new things and broaden the way we both teach and learn. Giving the students the ability to use the internet in class and have ubiquitous access can help them to understand certain things better and have more fun with what they are doing. Completing activities the same way every school day and doing homework, all the same, would get boring. As would listening to a teacher lecture all day long. With access to the internet and all the great things that it encompasses, students have the ability to learn, complete and think a completely different way than they did before. There are a ton of platforms that are useful in school. For example, when I was in middle school I did not have a teacher teach me math. I learned and completed all of my math homework and tests on an app called Aleks. It was a whole new way of learning and doing things. It gave my teacher a ton more time to get her work done and plan things, and simultaneously it gave us students time away from sitting and listening to lectures and it let us interact with what we were learning. Sure, when we had questions we would go and ask the teacher and she would help us but we weren't learning directly from a teacher, we learned from the internet. Most of the students benefitted from this and excelled in math. It gave the students the ability to work at their own pace and the students that were ahead could work ahead and the ones that were behind got to work on their own time. Another thing that this access can impact is the way that students do presentations if they are given the option to use the internet this broadens the platforms available for them to complete said presentation. There are an immense amount of benefits to students having ubiquitous access to information but there are also a ton of challenges. If the students have access to information whenever they want, there is always the risk of students googling answers, cheating, and plagiarism. The internet can be a scary place so if a teacher were to give full access for students to use the internet, they should create certain locks on websites and different things. The risk of students cheating, copying, and or plagiarising information is something that they would do at their own risk. There are plenty of websites that check for all of these things in which a teacher can check all their work with their access to the internet. Ubiquitous access definitely allows students to be more creative like I stated before, they may have the ability to complete projects on different platforms such a creating a website with complete access. Since Ms. Tucker tells her students exactly how to complete activities and they have to complete them this way, it really does eliminate the aspect of critical thinking if they are all doing it the same way. With the help of the internet the teacher and the students can learn more ways to teach, and learn. There are also a bunch of different websites and apps that would let students use more creativity and think critically. There is way more than just one way to complete things in school, and by Ms. Tucker only letting them do things one way might make things boring for both her and her students. Having to grade the same exact projects and having to complete everything the same way gets old really fast. Some suggestions I would give Ms. Tucker are that she should expand her way of thinking things have to be done if she gives her students a little bit of freedom they then have the ability to be way more creative and think critically on different ways to complete tasks in school. Yeah, giving ubiquitous access can be scary because of the fact that the internet holds a ton of answers, pre-done homework, and papers for the students to cheat their way and copy things, but there are also things you can use like turnitin.com which catches plagiarism, copying and cheating. Students will always have the choice to take shortcuts and cheat but you also have the option to catch them with the internet.
In my opinion, I believe that ubiquitous access should impact teaching and learning. Without immediate access to the internet, we are limiting our ability to learn new things and broaden the way we both teach and learn. Giving the students the ability to use the internet in class and have ubiquitous access can help them to understand certain things better and have more fun with what they are doing. Completing activities the same way every school day and doing homework, all the same, would get boring. As would listening to a teacher lecture all day long. With access to the internet and all the great things that it encompasses, students have the ability to learn, complete and think a completely different way than they did before. There are a ton of platforms that are useful in school. For example, when I was in middle school I did not have a teacher teach me math. I learned and completed all of my math homework and tests on an app called Aleks. It was a whole new way of learning and doing things. It gave my teacher a ton more time to get her work done and plan things, and simultaneously it gave us students time away from sitting and listening to lectures and it let us interact with what we were learning. Sure, when we had questions we would go and ask the teacher and she would help us but we weren't learning directly from a teacher, we learned from the internet. Most of the students benefitted from this and excelled in math. It gave the students the ability to work at their own pace and the students that were ahead could work ahead and the ones that were behind got to work on their own time. Another thing that this access can impact is the way that students do presentations if they are given the option to use the internet this broadens the platforms available for them to complete said presentation. There are an immense amount of benefits to students having ubiquitous access to information but there are also a ton of challenges. If the students have access to information whenever they want, there is always the risk of students googling answers, cheating, and plagiarism. The internet can be a scary place so if a teacher were to give full access for students to use the internet, they should create certain locks on websites and different things. The risk of students cheating, copying, and or plagiarising information is something that they would do at their own risk. There are plenty of websites that check for all of these things in which a teacher can check all their work with their access to the internet. Ubiquitous access definitely allows students to be more creative like I stated before, they may have the ability to complete projects on different platforms such a creating a website with complete access. Since Ms. Tucker tells her students exactly how to complete activities and they have to complete them this way, it really does eliminate the aspect of critical thinking if they are all doing it the same way. With the help of the internet the teacher and the students can learn more ways to teach, and learn. There are also a bunch of different websites and apps that would let students use more creativity and think critically. There is way more than just one way to complete things in school, and by Ms. Tucker only letting them do things one way might make things boring for both her and her students. Having to grade the same exact projects and having to complete everything the same way gets old really fast. Some suggestions I would give Ms. Tucker are that she should expand her way of thinking things have to be done if she gives her students a little bit of freedom they then have the ability to be way more creative and think critically on different ways to complete tasks in school. Yeah, giving ubiquitous access can be scary because of the fact that the internet holds a ton of answers, pre-done homework, and papers for the students to cheat their way and copy things, but there are also things you can use like turnitin.com which catches plagiarism, copying and cheating. Students will always have the choice to take shortcuts and cheat but you also have the option to catch them with the internet.
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