Brainstorming+Pro+Anti+Technology


 * Brainstorming...**

The Pros/Cons columns are not related to each other....two separate lists of ideas...


 * **Pros** || **Cons** ||
 * Supports learning 21st century skills || Without proper planning and thought about how it fits in to curriculum, waste of time and money ||
 * Teacher and student engagement || Without proper resources to support technology (personnel resources, money for maintenance, sustainability), money is wasted and teachers become frustrated ||
 * Teachers' development || technology becomes learning subject than learning tool ||
 * School's reputation || If no buy-in from stakeholders-school board, parents, community, can cause issues ||
 * individualized education || without teachers' training technology (tools) could be useless and even dangerous ||
 * special needs || technical issues can cause disruption ||
 * Supports authentic learning and student engagement || Fear of controlling information ||
 * Supports the way students learn and communicate in the 21st century...rather than ask students to leave all of their tools at home ||  ||
 * tools the students can use in the real world || No time to spend learning and use technology because of time spent on standardized testing ||
 * Levels the playing field for those students who might not have access to technology at home...gives them the opportunity to learn and use at school || Teachers already have too much to do and not enough time to learn how to use technology ||
 * Levels the playing field for those students who might not have access to technology at home...gives them the opportunity to learn and use at school || Teachers already have too much to do and not enough time to learn how to use technology ||