As I noted in an earlier post, it's actually difficult to find criticisms of DyKnow products. A Grove City College newspaper article does, however, point out a few students' concerns from when the technology was first introduced to the college in 2006. Since we already know many of DyKnow's benefits from previous posts in this blog, I thought I'd highlight student complaints/concerns here. These include:
-monitoring of their screens (some college students feel that they have the right to look at whatever they want during class without being monitored by professors)
-an artificial atmosphere w/ fewer opportunities for interesting spur-of-the-moment class discussions
-being required to bring computers to class each day
-having to take notes the professor's way
-increased collaboration-over-computer activities detracting from, instead of improving, the learning process
Check out the article here: http://www.gcc.edu/UserFiles/File/news/collegian/090806Collegian2.pdf
Which of these concerns/complaints do you see yourself facing as a K-12 library media specialist (if your school could afford the DyKnow products)? What are your thoughts about them?
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I think that the concerns would be the fact that the students would be required to bring computers with them to class.
Also the cost might be an issue for the school district????
Good point about cost... I will find out what districts have to pay.
The monitoring of screens could become cumbersome due to the short amount of time the students are in the LMC. The last time 4th grade students at my fieldwork were able to search the databases on whatever they wanted, the inevitable happened--one student searched "poop". The librarian was surprised (I wasn't, I have a 4th grader!).
I agree that it might be difficult to monitor screens if you only have a short amount of time with students anyway-- I would probably rather be interacting with students on a personal level and furthering their research that way.
Your mention of the student who looked up "poop" actually makes me think of the whole new genre of "grossology" that's being marketed to reluctant readers. Authors are making fortunes on writing books on disgusting topics to get kids to read, and the kids do read them! :)
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