More Distracted Than Ever

This idea that the physical action of such seemingly meaningless tasks makes me want to leave my phone aside for the few hours I spend at school, learning and enriching my mind. These articles have clarified for me that the negative outcomes of technology in learning prevent my mind from absorbing knowledge. My academic work, whether it be in high school or college, will constantly deteriote if I let technology overpower my ability to think and learn. It is not even the fact that the use of technology will probably lower my grades, but the possibility of not growing or learning makes me realize that the consequences of technology use in the classrom are some that I will avoid and prevent by allowing myself to use my senses and knowledge to gain new ideas and experiences. Such implicaitons are ones that I wish to not face and will do so by simply setting my phone aside to learn, and by letting go of the temptation that technology can be, in such a modern, tech-savy

Did you know that about 12% of the students in a classroom are either texting, emailing, or checking social media? Students are more distracted than ever before with the use of phones and laptops. Students spend about a fifth of their time in class on their devices that have nothing related with their school work. Students do not pay attention, complete school work, and retain information.

Annie Paul focused on student’s actions when multitasking complex activities such as doing homework while using social media. The younger generation (M2) that has grown with technology is lacking the will power to focus on one complex endeavor at once. “Media multitasking while learning” is a common task in students, they are learning spotty information if they aren’t giving their full attention. Paul opens with a study on observing: middle school, high school, and college students. Throughout each grade most opened some type of social media while working academically. Even though these students knew they were being observed, the students didn’t hold back on doing their regular routines. It didn’t take the students long to drift away from their homework. It’s a form of anxiety to the younger generation, no one wants to miss out on the new trends and news.

Society has become dependent on technology and it now plays an important role in many people’s lives. Try imagining your life without technology. If the internet, mobile devices, and games were taken away from us, how would we feel? Many people would feel like a part of their lives are missing due to technology now being a necessity in their everyday life. It would be very different from what we are comfortable with today. The truth is, many people rely on technology to get them through the day. Whether it 's at work, at home, or at school, technology is beneficial. Without technology, our lives would be much different. Technology can have both a positive and negative impact on many people lives today, but one can choose how to use it. For instance, positive effects that technology contributes to increased communication, speediness of work and fast access to information. In contrast, negative effects that technology contributes to are decreased in human social behavior, education and health risk. Although, technology can play a positive and negative role in one’s life, one must consider the negative effects seriously because health is important in many people lives.

Click. A bill is paid. Click. A medical diagnosis is made. Click. A life was just saved. Technology is being used for almost everything, everyday. You can conveniently pay your bills while watching television at the touch of a button. Doctors can easily make a diagnosis and start treatment, which, in turn, saves millions of lives. J. Christian Fox, a professor of emergency medicine and assistant dean of student affairs says, “Everything from eyeballs to ankles, and all the organs in between, can be seen in much better resolution and a lot more accurately than the physical examination can ever dream of." Most people think of all the eye-opening ways technology has helped improve our society, but has anyone really thought about how it’s damaging

In the section titled The Dumbest Generation, “Digital Nation” lays out a haunting narrative describing technology’s negative impact on students today. This section draws from an interview with Mark Bauerlein, a professor and author of book titled “The Dumbest Generation.” Bauerlein claims that reading, writing and math skills of students have all already began to deteriorate. It seems that constant interruption and attempts to multitask are at the heart of this deterioration. I received my first smart phone just before the beginning of this semester, from my own experience I can only agree with the assertion that technology puts a damper on the educational experience. The issue does not come with the technology itself, rather, the desire for constant connection distracts from the learning experience. As the first generation of persons who grew up with technology become parents, I hope they can teach their children the skill of moderation and the importance of education – skills often not taught to kids today by their parents born before the technology boom. These ideas will solve the deterioration of reading, writing, and math that Bauerlein speaks

Back in my days, we were not fortunate enough to... Gotcha! Did you expect that to be a dull story like our grandparents or parents may have told to show us how much more difficult their lives were? Not exactly, this writing is about how college students of this generation make use of digital technology. The wide spread of today’s technology via computers or smartphones results in constant connectivity to the internet. Social media, video gaming, information databases, and online classes, have affected college students’ studies. As a result, more students are being distracted, making a wider academic gap with self-disciplined students.

Back in my days, we were not fortunate enough to... Gotcha! Did you expect that to be a dull story like our grandparents or parents may have told to show us how much more difficult their lives were? Not exactly, this writing is about how college students of this generation make use of digital technology. The wide spread of today’s technology via computers or smartphones results in constant connectivity to the internet. Social media, video gaming, information databases, and online classes, have affected college students’ studies, causes a wider academic gap between distracted students and self-disciplined students.

In the article, “Growing Up Digital, Wired for Distraction,” Matt Richtel explains how students’ constant use of media may induce a pattern of distraction and disinclination toward academics. Richtel starts by investigating how parents, teachers, and administrators use technology to pull the attention of students from games and social media to academics. Researchers say when youths use technology and media, their “developing brains can become more easily habituated...to constantly switching tasks — and less able to sustain attention” (2). The intention of using more technology in classrooms is to invoke student interest in academics, prevent distractions, and allow students to concentrate. Richtel moves on to discuss how students blame media

Technology has helped humanity in almost every aspect of everyday life. It has made life so much easier that it has become almost impossible to live without. In Dr. Richard Restaks “Attention Deficit: The Brain Syndrome of Our Era”, and Alexandra Samuels “Plug In Better’: A Manifesto” they both go into detail on how technology has affected today’s society, and how it has changed human behavior to rely on it to such a degree that people have become addicted to technology as if they need it for their very survival. Both Restak and Samuel talk about how technology has made humanity more connected to each other and yet has also disconnected each other at the same time and to the real world. People use technology so much in their everyday lives to solve problems and to carry out tasks that they no longer control its effects on them, whereas before people had to rely on their own individual talents, skills, and efforts to get tasks completed. Gene therapy and other cutting edge medical techniques like all technology, has incredible life changing potential as well as possible side effects

Furthermore, as communication and writing skills diminish our school performance begins to be affected. The entertainment of mobile devices distracts nearly every student in the classroom whether it is texting, or playing games, or surfing the net. Mobile devices also play a big role in communication by making it possible for students to easily communicate with each other when they should not be. The power to communicate with virtually anyone is a major distraction. Some teens are so attached to their technological devices they sleep with phones on and wake up to answer text messages they get at night. When kids have cell phones in their classrooms they are extremely distracted from what is actually being taught. They are looking down and playing their games or going on social networking sites instead of listening to their teachers. With the constant distraction of technology and teens short attention spans reading and writing skills have suffered significantly and vocabularies are shrinking. This relates to their education and their ability to do well in school. Another problem is that technology provides students with the ability to explore numerous search engines for any problem they come across and copy them word for word. It seems that students don’t spend time thinking; they are simply repeating information instead of learning concepts and ideas. When students do this, they do not actually learn the

Books and face to face learning have started to dissipate as technology has taken over. The internet has taken over the teaching world. Apps have been on the rise since iPads and laptops have been introduced into school districts around the country. Applications like Notability, Desmos, and Quizlet have made it easier for kids to study on their own. Online classes are also growing more and more popular since students can double up on classes and get more credits in less time. Younger students don’t use devices for the same reasons, but to catch up on things they may miss in school due to absences or other extenuating circumstances. The school issued electronics are also great for reviewing materials at home, in the instances of an upcoming test. Most classes and teachers have the added help of being able to teach and or use devices for students benefit. Other classes, like art or gym do not benefit. Visual and physical classes are more difficult in the sense that they require full participation from students. Devices can serve as a distraction in these instances. Especially in cases where material is not

As I have grown up, mostly in an age where electronics are a "must have", I have very different opinions on it then most. I believe that, some students do over use the abliites that technology provides. I also believe that in some cases, technology is all that some students connect through.

Digital devices and social media have become so engrained in our everyday lives, it is easy to become oblivious to the impacts that they might have on an individual’s education and cognitive development. It is not uncommon to look around a learning environment of young adults and see an abundance of smart phones, laptops and tablets which can freely access the vast amount of social media sites and internet information. While some would argue it can have its advantages, this ‘Age of Distraction’ does appear to fostering a generation who lack the ability to focus thus affecting their attentional capacity in the learning environment. This assignment will consider what evidence there is to support this claim, the potential short and long term affects digital devices are having in the learning environment, and lastly what we, as teaching professionals, can do to combat this growing phenomenon.

Today, many campuses offer free Wi-Fi internet access in all classrooms. However, students abuse the advantage of Wi-Fi internet availability and misuse their laptops in ways that prevents them to engage and concentrate in class. Carrie B. Fried’s points out that although her research demonstrated that laptops are an effective learning tool, there was more suggestive evidence to ban laptops in class because they detract students from learning. Based on her research results, she concluded that students learning are negatively related to in-class laptop use because students spent “considerable time multitasking and that laptop use posed a significant distraction to both users and fellow students” (Computers and Technologies Journal). With Wi-Fi networks, it allows students to use the internet and do non-course related activities: check emails, play online games, visit social media networks such as Facebook and Blogger, and instant message other friends inside and outside of their current classroom. Students performing non course related activities on their laptops distract their fellow classmates as well. A student who misuses their laptop hinders their own learning as well as the learning of peers who are using their laptops appropriately. A student watching a comedy and smiling can distract another classmates’ learning and the disrespect the professor who is struggling to teach.