For this week’s blog, we have decided to discuss and research the cons to have technology shortcuts in the classroom. During our group discussion…

 

  • takes away from the students’ learning
  • students stop thinking about the little details of their grammar and spelling
  • students rely on these shortcuts
  • if you don’t know it, when there is a list of possible correct options given, you don’t know which one to choose.

 

Following our group discussion, we researched a couple of articles and found the following quotes:

 

  • “In using e-mail or word-processing software, we become less proficient proofreaders when we know that a spell-checker is at work” (Nordquist, 2019).
  • “Typically, if you have misspelled a word the spellchecker will offer a list of alternatives. Unless your initial attempt is reasonably close to the correct spelling, you are unlikely to be offered sensible alternatives, and, even if you are, you have to be able to make sense of what is on offer” (Nordquist, 2019).
  • “By middle school and high school, students start saying things like “I don’t have to spend time on this because I can ask Siri,” Gardner said. “I’m even guilty of it. I use Grammarly. … We’re less likely to self-monitor our spelling because we know the computer will do it for us” (Denn, 2019).