Is Technology More Detrimental Than It Is Helpful?

Throughout this course, a new perspective has provided us with the opportunity to take a look at many of the different ways in which the digital world has become one of the most dominant viewpoints of today’s generation, and how technology has taken over and welcomed itself into many aspects of our lives. This course paper will take a look at one topic of interest in particular, which in hopes will shed some light on a heavily discussed topic in the education world: does technology help or hinder the student. This paper will look to prove the point and discover more about the way in which technology has been incorporated into the classroom, both in an elementary context as well as a post-secondary context, and the effects that it has had on the student, the teacher, and the overall academic development that accompanies it.

Technology has many attributes and applications that improve livelihoods. As a student myself, one of the most obvious advancements is in the field of education. Educational technology has slowly been integrated into classrooms over the last decade. Today, the basis of technology, digital literacy, is a crucial skill for academics. “Students who are digitally literate know how to effectively use technology to collaborate, create original content, and conduct in-depth research for academic purposes” (Dotterer, “Fostering Digital Citizenship In The Classroom”). Some worry that the use of technology will encourage people to “cease to exercise their memory and become forgetful” (qtd. In Carr, “Is Google Making Us Stupid?”).

You walk into most public-school classrooms and you see laptops, I pads, Desktops and sometimes smart boards. These are used as learning tools. When using these tools, the kids really are learning with a hands-on approach. For some kids, it’s a helpful tool for other kids it’s a distraction. The students can use technology for school work at home and it also helps with the Turing in process with teachers. I think that technology can be useful in a classroom setting but should not replace the classroom

The idea of how technology is affecting us as human beings is a largely argued topic nowadays. For example, a professor of science, technology, and society at MIT University named Sherry Turkle seems to claim that all this digital communication we have access to now is not such a good thing. Turkle has a sample of an essay of hers in the book, They Say, I Say. The name of the essay is “No Need to Call,” and Sherry Turkle 's claims could be implied by this quote from her essay, “subscribing to a new etiquette, claiming the need for efficiency in a realm where efficiency is costly.” Turkle believes that us using digital communication has costly repercussions to our humanity and our ability to have empathy to one another. However, this quote and essay has much more depth to it.

1. What role does technology play in US society in relation to bias, discrimination, and power? What specific examples of discrimination related to race, ethnicity, gender, and disability can you see in our society that has been enabled or exacerbated by technology?

Within the last century, electronics grew faster than ever anticipated. With computers, cell phones and computers in cell phones, many consumers cannot even use the high-tech electronics sold to them. Whether through new invention or simply by means of innovation, countries are advancing in technology everyday. As technologies advance, a natural side effect of the gains they produce can be seen in the degradation of the local surrounding environments. Ground, air and water pollution from chemical runoff can produce greater negative externalities than the benefits they provide to communities and corporations.

Every day the world is changing and things are done differently. Technology has also affected the way students are taught and in which they learn. It has changed the classroom. Technology saves us time and allows us to access material in only minutes. “The Internet and online subscription databases, even as a supplement to the printed works in the library, allow students to see, and force them to consider or reject, points of view that they might never have encountered in decades past” (Gow 4).With all the time technology produces, it also has downsides and it also may have created a less intelligent society.

Technology is such an intrinsic part of everyday life that it would be difficult to imagine society with it. In many ways, the prevalence of technology in environments such as homes, offices, hospitals, labs, and ________ is one of the defining aspects of the current, modern era. The frequent users of technological appliances would state that they make life easier, with the gadgets’ ability to process information quickly and present it in several acceptable formats. With all these benefits, it would seem like a good idea to include technology in the classroom and make it a critical aspect of education, but there is a lot of debate on the model schools should follow with many people offering various perspectives. One such position is of

A person can’t walk into a classroom and not see some type of technology. When teaching young children, teachers should not just give their student technology. Teachers should teach their younger students how to use the technology around them. In his 2006 article, “Overdominance of Computers,” Lowell Monke states that teachers should use more technology in high school than the younger grades. In which I agree, because younger children need to learn how to do things without the technology presented to them. Also, I guaranteed by the time I am teaching and my students reach high school, there is going to be new types of

With the rapid rise of technological developments and advancements, it brings to question does the use of this technology help with learning in the classroom? This simple question moves past simple yes or no and, if used, should constantly be monitored to ensure the technology is relevant, meeting students’ needs as well as teacher’s objectives. In order to provide the best experience in the classroom today’s teacher must be aware of and incorporate technology into their personal educational philosophies and pedagogy. A fact which seems so simple yet has been difficult at best as many established teachers evolve their pedagogy at the speed of glacier melting. Technology itself has great bearing on today’s society and relationships

The topic of controversy for this essay is whether or not technology has a negative or positive affect on people. In order to help explain whether or not technology has a positive or negative affect on us there will be four articles that will be discussed within this essay. The first article is “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” by Nicholas Carr, “The Reading Brain in the Digital Age: The Science of Paper versus Screens by Ferris Jabr, “Get Smarter” by Jamais Cascio, and “Technology Doesn’t Dumb Us Down. It Frees Our Minds” by Damon Darlin. Carr and Jabr’s articles say that technology does affect us negatively, while Cascio and Darlin say that technology affects us in a positive way. An interested, but uniformed person can learn most about this

These past few years technology has grown rapidly in fact we now have technology in our hands that can search, send, and receive information along with numerous other functions; don't forget the laptop that can do everything a computer can do just smaller and portable. Technology has been great for our education because now a student can search for anything he or she has a question on and find an answer rather quickly unlike our older generation that went to a library and find a book to search for answers. Past technology in education was great but now it has reached a time where students are being given too much freedom with phones and laptops in class and our educational system is not seeing the increase in knowledge that was expected. A research project was done where two widely reported studies one from Winona state and one from Cornell university “students using laptops in class remember lectures poorly and miss understand course material. Their ability to focus even on course related Internet searches is weaker than that of students who are not digitally connected during class” (Nettleton 2). Now people can see how technology has its drawbacks and we need to know if it is beneficial or not to have technology in the classroom and should it continue to be a part of the educational system.

Today, our society is more technologically advanced than it has ever been, and our schools have become more technologically progressive over the past few years, but does having technology in the classroom help or hinder the students from learning? A quote by John Dewey from his book Democracy and Education stated “If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.” Integrating technology into classrooms is not only essential in preparing the students for the future, but it is also an effective teaching method. Many surveys and studies have been done about using technology to teach students. Even as early as 6 years old to college level and the outcomes have varied, depending on the way it was introduced and

Bernard John Poole wrote ten pillars of successful use of technology in the classroom. Throughout his paper, he continued speaking of the continuous training teachers would have to go through to “keep up with the new technology.” He also wrote about how parents would have to be equally involved in order to “promote student achievement through technological advances.” Matthew Lynch, a journalist for the Huffington Post, wrote an article on this paper. He ended the article by saying “Does the technology itself provide heightened experiences? I’d argue that it does not. Instead, the implementation of technology is a necessary move to keep students interested in subject matter.”

Education is defined as ‘the act or process of imparting or acquiring general knowledge, developing the powers of reasoning and judgement, and generally of preparing oneself or others intellectually for mature life.’ A good education leads to knowledge, career progression, enlightenment and helps a nation progress, as John F. Kennedy said; "Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource." The introduction of technology in education has impacted education both for good and bad. According to the Oxford dictionary, Technology is; ‘machinery and devices that are developed from scientific knowledge to increase or better, everyday functions.’ Technology used in education, is part of a large debate over whether it is improving educational outcomes in students. Some say technology is revolutionizing education for the better, and others say it is a trend that offer/s no specific improvements to education. Although technology can never replace a good quality teacher, the advantages and benefits of technology, positively supplements a bridge between education and the technological world, hence offers students the marketable job skills they need in order to satisfy in the evolving technological world.