The Paperless Classroom

In a paperless classroom, students would be taking charge of more of their own learning since they would be required to use the technology tools to learn and produce. They would be able to contribute to what interests and excites them by adding links of information, pictures, sounds, and videos to supplement what is being studied. Teachers would become more of the facilitator rather than the total expert. Collaboration, critical thinking, and analyzing would be encouraged as students shared and challenged each other. Students could take what was presented in class, expand, and add to it. They would be creating class content along with the instructor. To measure learning, one would have to consider the ongoing contributions as an assessment rather than a final product. Paperless classrooms would encourage networking and make it easier to build. When completed work is handed in on paper, that student’s ideas and contributions often stop at the teacher. Paperless classroom allows those ideas to be shared with all, reflected on, and expanded. Students would take more pride and ownership in their work if it was presented in a paperless classroom.