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Marshall McLuhan-Critique of the structered learning environment. Lecture Halls causes: Students either have to pay attention or get lost in the crowd Professors dont know many of their students names Professors do research and often give the same out-dated lecture every class. Chalkboard changed learning, allowed students to see the teachers thought process.

Want to know

Should students have the new tools (technology) The old structured educational system produced many great minds, why change it? Is the new process of learning via internet and reading webpages and different then going to a library. Relationship between the chalkboard and something like a google doc. Is the ability for students to contribute to the learning positive and what effects is it having.

Learn

Many colleges and universities were built during a time of a more structured, educational environment. The professor needs a new role. Whether to allow new tech into schools is an ongoing debate (laptops) 200 Students can contribute real-time on a google doc. Students are spending more time online today then they are offline (reading books, etc) 26.5 hours a day doing something (multitasking) Laptops in the classroom allow students to google a teachers lecture and either learn more about it or learn something contradictory. There is alot of misc. false information of the internet that a student might think is true, due to the anonymous nature of the internet. You dont know whether the info you are reading on the internet is a legit site or mayhaps a bit biased.