Should Educational Technology be Held Accountable for Student's Learning Gains and Losses?

I strongly believe that it is not appropriate to hold educational technology accountable for student learning gains or losses, due to many reasons. First of all, you cannot standardize it because not every school has the same equipment. It is unfair to hold technology accountable for students learning gains and losses when they may not even have the resources they need to succeed. Some schools that have more technology resources will have more learning gains from it while others that aren’t as fortunate to have many resources will have learning losses; therefore, it is not appropriate to hold educational technology accountable for learning gains or losses. Also, not every teacher is incorporating computers enough; they are not using the technology resources they have. It is unfair to expect all students to be on the same level academically with educational technology when not every teacher is teaching on the same technological level. You need to level the playing field for students and it is hard to do that with technology when some schools don’t have the resources and some teachers either are not as tech savvy or disagree with the use of technology. Lastly, I believe it is not appropriate to hold educational technology accountable for student learning gains or losses because the motivation and engagement of the students should come from the teacher, not technology. A lot of teachers are now depending on technology to motivate and engage their students, and this is not beneficial. Most students’ attention will only last so long with technology and therefore, it is unfair to expect students to learn only from technology. Although technology has the capability to be a positive aspect on education, it should not be held accountable for student’s learning gains or losses until every school has the same equipment, every teacher teaches using technology on the same level, and every teacher continues to motivate and engage their students with and without technology.

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