The Journal

I think using technology over face to face communication with students is a way for teachers to hide and not do their job to their best ability. It is okay to send an occasional email or to send a link but to hardly ever communicate in person is ridiculous. Instant messaging and online chatting should be for personal use only, not for instruction. Teaching methods such as those don't do anything but make people more lazy. Instead of getting out the bed and going to school they sit behind a computer screen all day. Nothing can take the place of face to face learning. I think it is the most effective way to get ideas across to other people because you can see where they went wrong. The computer is nothing but a distraction because people venture off to their favorite websites and forget all about the assignment their suppose to be doing. The only advantage I see in using text based communication is for friendly reminders or last minute additions to the class. I don't think majority of students retain information when they receive through podcasts and similar forms. Podcasts should be left to view videos and music. Video games can help with studying depending on the the situation. They help people to reason and think more critically and help them to perform in spur of the moment incidents.