Disadvantages Of Digital Technology

As technology continues to grow throughout our modern society, it starts to become incorporated more frequently in several different aspects of our lives. In particular, technology is growing vastly in regards to educational purposes. In every classroom in today's society, some form of technology is used each day, regardless of the grade level.

Many of today’s students in some schools across the country are using technology in their classrooms. Some students and parents believe this could benefit the students’ education, while others see the many flaws to the idea.

With such a revolutionary platform such as the internet, users all over the globe are rapidly getting access to it. According to the IDC and the Internet World Statistics, during December 1995 there was a mere 16 million internet users. As the statistics were taken on March 2012, there was a staggering 2,280 million internet users. This information suggests that almost two quarters of the world’s population have access to the internet; in addition, these users have access to purchase music online.

Electronic communications have taken over young generations life. College and high school students prefers talking on social media rather than face to face conversations. Students get most of the news or information from the social media according to Rick Nauert, a senior news editor, “For most of the students reporting in the study, information of all kinds comes in an undifferentiated wave to them via social media” (Nauert). Electronic communications have disadvantages on students’ life. The articles, “Harrisburg U.’s Social-Media Blackout Is More of a Brownout,” by Don Troop and Growing Up Digital, Wired for Distraction,” by Matt Richtel discusses about the impact of social media on students’ life. All three articles have a commonality about the side effects of social media and its use. Over usage of social media made young generation addicted to social media, unable to concentrate on study, and encourage the universities to block social media on the campus network as an experiment.

Also, smartphone applications have good availability. We do not have to worry about how we find the application. In this era, we can find anything we want easily. We can find it on the worldwide network, the internet, where we can share anything with other people in the world. We just need to find a site. The smartphone is beneficial because it has two functions. It can be a computing device and a communication device. For example, we can send an e-mail with this device, send a SMS and call someone and we can use it for chat with another user. Smartphones, and even other electronic devices are the best invention that has been found. Smartphones are very complex and sophisticated because it has many advantages such as availability, and operating system. It is important for people who need tools to support their duty.

Nowadays, technology takes over the world as penetrate through human life. The biggest effects would be teenagers as they use technology more often. The technology impacts the family environment, social relationships with people; health of people that do not have rational use of technology, creativity, and focus.

Smartphones occupy a large part of modern day lives and prove very useful. They provide constant Internet connection, which allows for quick and easy access to almost anything that one can fathom. Smartphones make

The Internet is very popular nowadays, almost everyone are using it. In addition, there is no limitation on the age or condition of the user to access the Internet. In fact, the Internet is interactive, flexible, global, dynamic, rich in resources and inexpensive compared to other methods of mass communication, socialization and coordination between the customers. More and more internet services have been developed to support both users’ requirements and actions, and to make it accessible to a diverse audience. (BALINT, A 2014)

The term ‘smartphone’ refers to a multi-functional mobile phone handset that pack in everything from a camera and web browser to a high-density display. Other key smartphone features include masses of storage space, micro SD card slots to allow you to upgrade further and intuitive touchscreen user interfaces so you can access all the great functions of the handset quickly and easily. The first Smartphone’s combined the functions of a Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) with a mobile phone. Some other important features,

The complex social and historical foundations of education are rooted in the need to create a population of citizens capable of contributing to the continuing economic and political stability of our nation. First we were an agricultural society, then industrial, and now we are educating students for futures with that are yet unknown (explainvisualthinking, 2007). The new dynamic, created by the recent and rapid expansion of technology driven globalization has created the compelling need for technology infused education in our schools (Friedman, 2005). As an educational technology leader, I collaborate with other educators and families to create technology initiatives that will support educational technology in our schools.

Smartphones combine both mobile phone and handheld computers into a single device. Smartphones allow users to store information, install programs, along with using a mobile phone in one device. For example, a smartphone could be a mobile phone with some PDA functions integrated into device or vise versa.

Smartphones are a type of phone that can perform many functions of a computer, typically having a touchscreen interface, Internet access, and an operating system that can run software applications. It can allow people to engage in those activities that they used to use on their Personal Computer while with more convenience in a mobile size. In 2008, only 10% of phones users in America are the smartphones users. But before the end of 2011, smartphones became the most popular phone device (Entner, 2010), and by 2013, smartphones overtook PCs as the most common Web access device, and the adoption rate of smartphones is 69% in developed countries today. [3]

These four constructs are comparable to relative advantage, complexity, compatibility and trialability of an innovation in DOI, respectively. Since DOI is one of UTAUT’s core elements, the two theories are very similar. However, while DOI considers new ideas in any context and its constructs focus on the characteristics of the innovations, UTAUT pays attention to new technologies in an organizational setting and its constructs place more emphasis on a user’s perception and expectation of the technologies. In this present study, social media is treated as a new technology being adopted for crisis communication in an organizational context.

In this day and age almost everyone has access to the internet. People can access it through there smartphones, tablets, and computers which is in every home. This generation is just a click away from getting the answers to everyday questions. Technology has been evolving from generation to generation. The use of media has a great impact on today’s society. Most young adults and children know no other way to live but with technology. There was a time in history when books were the only outlet for the mind to be free. Children played outside and used their imagination to create an adventure. One could only envision the endless possibilities the world

Do you remember how the classrooms looked back when you were in school? The chalkboard or whiteboard, the wooden desk, the television set that was wheeled around from classroom-to-classroom on movie day, the chalk, etc. If you went to visit a classroom today, however, you might be disappointed to know that most of those things are now gone.