Annotated Bibliography: Technology impact on student learning

Concerning new media, I personally don't like using technology or seeing schools increase their technology use. After completing my student teaching in a public school and seeing how much students use technology, this was an issue for me. I personally prefer instruction over new media being pushed onto kids. Is there such a thing as using too much technology in school? As you can tell, I am against using more media in classrooms. The topic for my project is regarding the impact technology has on student learning.

Here are some questions I hope to answer during my research: What are the benefits or challenges of incorporating technology? How can teachers use technology in the classroom? Do students learn when using technology? What is the impact of using technology in the classroom?

After completing this annotated bibliography, I need to find more articles that include negative impacts technology can have and find articles that will answer my other questions from above.

1. Cengiz Gulek, J., & Demirtas, H. (2005). Learning with technology: The impact of laptop use on student achievement. The Journal of Technology, Learning and Assessment, 3(2), pp. 1-38.

    This article talks about the laptop program which is a program for students to receive the same standard curriculum but on a laptop. Both the teacher and student outcomes related to an increased use of laptops in school are discussed. This article uses charts to compare data from laptop users to non-laptop users' grades. This helps you to fully see the impact made on student achievement from increasing technology use. This article is biased because it shows a lot of positive data regarding laptop use, although the authors do briefly discuss a couple of limitations from using laptops.

2.Costley, K. C. (2014). The Positive Effects of Technology on Teaching and Student Learning. Online submission.

    The author, Kevin C. Costley (2014), discusses the impact of technology on our lives. Technology is becoming more and more prevalent in our everyday lives and is making an impact on our educational system too. Students are able to enjoywhat they are learning and stay more focused when using new media. The author mentions how technology can benefit English Language Learners and students with disabilities. The effects technology use has on academics in the classroom is also discussed and brings up many great points to think about. This article is biased because the author has a heavy emphasis on the positive impacts of technology in student learning.

3. Schacter, J. (1999). The impact of education technology on student achievement: What the most current research has to say. The Milken Family Foundation.

This article focuses on five studies that were done on technology in education. For each study discussed, the author shares the positive and negative impacts found from this study. Some of these descriptions are very brief or vague unfortunately. At the end of the article, there is a brief description of a Logo program software that older students used to create a program to teach younger students fractions. Although this is a very short article, I think it will be beneficial when discussing the positive or negative impacts technology can have on education and bring up some of the case studies. 

4. Wen, X., & Walters, S. M. (2022). The impact of technology on students’ writing performances in elementary classrooms: A meta-analysis. Computers and Education Open, 3, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.caeo.2022.100082.

This article discusses the impact of technology on writing performance. Two important aspects looked at in this article are the types of technology integrated and the writing genres. Some of the technology integration that is discussed is word processing, mobile technology, online tools, and assistive technology. The article discusses mainly the benefits from using technology on student achievement but also briefly discusses negative impacts it can have. The authors define multimodal and digital literacies and why they are important in education.

5. Wilson, B. G, & Peterson, K. (1995). Successful technology integration in an elementary school: A case study. In Lucas, C., & Lucas L. (Eds.), Practitioners write the book: What works in educational technology (pp. 201-267). Texas Center for Educational Technology.

The authors, Brent G. Wilson and Karen Peterson (1995), discuss how Peakview Elementary school is integrating technology into its classrooms. The purpose of this article is to determine if buying more technology and implementing it into the school was worth it and what impact is has made on the school. Different trends related to teaching with technology are discussed such as small group instruction, teacher vs. facilitator, and focusing on the weaker students. The authors include information regarding computer planning, teacher training, costs and benefits of implementing technology and more. I like how this article includes blurbs from teachers and students to make their points stronger. This article is biased as it mostly highlights the benefits of using technology and the positive outcomes.