Student Interview Essay

I drove to Highland High School on April 5th. I asked Mrs vezmar if I could interview her but unfortunately she said she was too busy for a in person interview but if I emailed them to her she would be happy to help. So on April 10th I emailed her ten questions and on April 11th Mrs. Vezmar responded to them and sent them back to me. I used to go to Highland High School so when Mrs. Vezmar told me they were investing more money into providing more technology to their students I was excited. I asked how many students use the internet for their daily school life and She believed that many do and that Highland is working on providing personal tablets to all their students. If we remember from my phase 1 and phase 2 project I offered this as a potential solution.

She provided positive and negative effects that computers have on their students. Some positives that were provided were easy communication between teachers and students, increase their view of the world, and offer a skill that will be need in college and in the workplace. Negatives of computers were that it made cheating easier and made students procrastinate more. Mrs. Vezmar said that her and other teachers and counselors started a 1:1 initiative. Next year they will have
a personal tablet for every student at Highland and they allow teachers to use technology any way they want to educate in their classes.

When I used to go to Highland we were provided with apple ipod touches to play math games on when we had free time in math.
When we got to use them everyone in our class was very excited and she reminded me of that during our interview. She believes that students are excited about receiving their own tablets next year and students who have financial issues this is a great way to help them develop these skills. Teachers have taken advantage of the technology movement now. With the ability to check plagiarism easier and a new way to educate students, teachers are enjoying their classes. One weakness though is teachers who are not able to operate the computers as good and need some guidance from other teachers or sometimes even
students.

Mrs. Vezmar believes that education is ever-changing and that she believes that a lot of things will be based on effectiveness whether online learning is better or if the old fashion way us. Only time will tell and whatever way is better is they way many schools will opted to go with. In the future Mrs. Vezmar believes that they will change their online textbooks to whatever textbook is more effective and easier to use. With the 1:1 Initiative they believe that apps will be able to turn tablets into their own personal textbooks just without pages. In the last 10 years she's noticed a huge increase in the use of computers and she believes that it will not fully replace the old tradition teaching methods but that it is very effective and online learning will continue to grow every year. Finally I asked Mrs. Vezmar if I can use her answers and he personal information for this interview and she said yes.