"Computers and Technology"

The article "Computers and Technology" is a response to the rapid escalation of technology in the classroom and the belief that this integration is solely positive. The author of the essay Richard Ohmann argues that technology, especially computers, is not only overhyped, but is an actual destructive force to education. He says that the internet just makes it easier for students to plagarize and is a source of distraction in the classroom. But his biggest qualms with technology in the classroom are the economics and politics behind it. He makes a list saying, "education is big business, education is for business, business calls the political tune, and business is privatizing whatever it can." Since technology is being privatized by big corporations, and since many schools are putting more and more of their money into technology, these big corporations not only have an effect on how education will be taught, but what it will teach as well.
Overall I agree with Ohmann's article, even though I don't have quite as an alarmist view of technology as he does. Sure it has made it easier for information to be obtained and shared, sure it can be a distraction, and of course there should be the concern of the economics behind it, but even with all that I still believe that technology, in the classroom and outside, can be extremely useful and productive. And ultimately technology is here to stay, so it is more wise to try to figure out not how to keep it out of the classroom, but how to best incorporate it.