Why do we need technology in education?

American children today spend 10 hours a week online on average.
Today, we can carry internet in our hands in the form of the smartphone.

We are living in extremely technological world today.
And this question is, shouldn't education incorporate technology as well?

I'm not saying we weren't incorporating technology in education so far,
when I was in high school, I was supposed to type all my essays and papers, as well as doing research paper finding resources online.

Well, first of all, why is it so important to incorporate technology to our classroom?
It can definitely enhance learning environment, but do we really need it?

In my opinion, yes we do need it.
It is essential to have some information on today's technology as students will need it throughout their life. In fact, we've been using technology that were essential at the time throughout the entire era.
That's shown in this video:



We've been using text books in education so far, and that's technology. We just have to switch text books into computers, that doesn't neccessarily mean replacing the text book, but we can use both of them for learning diversity.

Here are my personal reasons for using technology in classroom:

1.) Students are used to technology in home environment whether it's TV, computer game, PSP, ipad, smartphone. If we incorporate familiar technology in projects, it would be easy for students to engage in those projects.
2. It gives professional developments for students. Wherever we go and whatever job we'll have in today's world, it'll require some knowledgement of technology. By incorporating technology in classroom, we are teaching students informations they need to learn and how to navigate around technology as well.

(On personal note, I really wished that my high school teachers gave me more research papers so I would've learned how to find good online resources for research)

Technology is really just a tool, if we think we can educate our students better without technology, great. However, in my opinion, I think technology can be a great tool in education.

I'm just going to put this video about technology in education because I loved it so much: