This article really got me thinking about technology and how I was grown up with it . Since I am in my 20's I did not grow up with technology all around me. My family did not have a computer in the house till I was fourteen years old. So I was always making my own fun and learning new things out on the farm. Today generation you see kids at the age of eleven having a cell phone and can not live with out it. I believe it is a huge distraction to the education. You see kids always worry about the text they are receiving in class or who like their picture on Instagram. The kids are losing focus in the classroom at a fast paste because they are not focus. Technology is shortening the kids attention span and their patients. You see kids having more anger problems in the classroom when the teacher says something they dislike.
On the flip side technology has done a lot to help kids understand the world and research new things. It makes the kids sit down and type a report out instead of writing everything out. You see that typing papers is what they will have to turn in for the rest of their lives and if they get that experience at a young age it will not be as challenging to them. Also it helps their multi-tasking skills because you have different things going on when your on the internet and it helps them be product with their time. Technology can have a positive effect on kids education if it used in the proper way.
I believe that technology is a double sided sward. No matter how you look at it their is always a positive and a negative effect on people. It is how they are raised plays a major role on how they use technology in education. Not growing up with technology all around me I learned to lean on books and go to the library a check out books. Some kids at that age do not even know where their local library is because they relay on the internet for everything.
On the flip side technology has done a lot to help kids understand the world and research new things. It makes the kids sit down and type a report out instead of writing everything out. You see that typing papers is what they will have to turn in for the rest of their lives and if they get that experience at a young age it will not be as challenging to them. Also it helps their multi-tasking skills because you have different things going on when your on the internet and it helps them be product with their time. Technology can have a positive effect on kids education if it used in the proper way.
I believe that technology is a double sided sward. No matter how you look at it their is always a positive and a negative effect on people. It is how they are raised plays a major role on how they use technology in education. Not growing up with technology all around me I learned to lean on books and go to the library a check out books. Some kids at that age do not even know where their local library is because they relay on the internet for everything.