High Schools online learning during Covid years

The podcast discusses the effects of technology on high schools during the COVID years. The use of laptops and iPads allows for access to more information and quicker learning. However, it has also made cheating easier. The reliance on technology has affected the quality of learning and created an uneven playing field for lower-income families. Despite these issues, the speaker believes that the integration of technology in education is unlikely to change. Hello, I am doing my podcast on the effects that technology has had on high school during the COVID years. So for the effects that technology has had on high schools during these years, I feel like there's been a lot of good as well as a lot of bad to come out of it. So starting out with the good, one major positive is we were obviously able to have school, which is something that even like 10-15 years ago, I don't know or believe if it would have been possible to have happened, as well as on top of this, students now with laptops and iPads becoming a huge player in the learning environment today have access to a great deal of more information and can get it a lot quicker than students could even again 10-15 years ago. However, while iPads and laptops playing a bigger role in the learning environment and all this easier access to information, while on paper it looks like a great thing, it has actually hurt the students' learning environment a great deal. A prime example of this happening is cheating in today's learning environment has gotten exponentially easier than it was even four years ago with the emergence of technologies such as ChatGPT, which are capable of doing anything from answering a short answer to multiple choice question to writing a 3,000-word essay on thermodynamics or whatever the heck you needed to write it on. However, the point of all this is that with the COVID-19 pandemic from a few years ago, or I guess even with we're dealing with it now, we were forced into a learning environment that relied so much more on these technologies, which our readings from this week have made pretty clear isn't exactly a great thing. As students aren't learning as well with iPads and laptops as they were when we had in-person learning, which was actually holding them accountable for doing their work, as well as hurting families and homes that are of a lower income, as laptops and iPads, this technology is all insanely expensive and certain higher-income families having more access to it than lower-income families creates a massive advantage for these higher-income families and creates a very uneven playing field. However, despite all of this, I don't see a learning environment changing at all to have a heavier focus, again, on in-person learning, as in the last few years, I feel like the way technology has become integrated has, in a way, almost become permanent as it's kind of just become the way we do things now. That's pretty much all I've got. Thanks for listening.