s and cons. Some programs do a great job at drilling and repetition, which improve memorization skills. Yet, children are held back because they can not explore and understand what is being taught. It does not take much for a child to learn something by rote and memorization, but a full understanding of the material would be best. Other programs have students shooting at flying letters, hardly teaching anything about reading or comprehension at all. In middle and high school, the fun and games with computers in school are for the most part over. Computers are mainly relied upon for word processing, which is positive and negative. Papers go by much faster than writing and with more ease, but let students slack on spelling and grammar. Word processors can now catch most grammar mistakes as well as spelling. Students seem to rely on the computer to catch their mistakes instead of trying themselves. It becomes easier to let mistakes go by and have the computer catch them, rather than thinking about the grammar themselves.Today many colleges are offering entire courses on computer. There is the option of sitting in class with a computer acting as teacher or the whole course online, never having to go to the campus. More than academics are part of the college experience; meeting new people, learning to be independent and self efficient is an important part. If that time is spent at home on the computer those experiences are lost. In some ways it does save time, but the lack of teachers and peers help can be harmful. There are fewer options to ask a teacher for help or to explain a problem; also the absence of a classroom means no classmates to study with for simple help. More and more college classes spend too much time in the computer labs; professors just assign projects on the computer and do not teach. Once in the higher levels of education more explanation is needed; information gets more difficult and complicated. Teachers and profe...
