Role Models: The Future Of American Society

Many students in today’s world are becoming lazy. As time is there, students find ways to cheat, and lessen their work load through unethical approaches. There are multiple stories from teachers that can just go on about the students that try to cheat the system. The ways of these students could be that they can’t read and are trying to cheat their way through the educational system.

We grew up hearing from elders that education is the path to success. We learned from an early age that the reason we go to school five days a week it is so we can become a member of the successful group. As I read “Against School” written by former New York State teacher John Taylor Gatto in 2003 for Harper’s Magazine I started to question his claims when he wrote that school teaches students how to be consumers and school limits students from growing up by teaching them how to obey. Those statements are spurious. As a matter of fact, the school prepares students for life. Lastly, technology plays a major role in school because it expands the learning for the children.

What do you think of technology nowadays? Can you imagine a day when technology and internet disappears? I would answer no because I grew up using technology and it has provided many sorts of entertainment and educational help. Now, I can’t imagine how things will turn out if they disappear, especially for education because I’ve grown up relying on technology for school work and I believe this applies to almost everybody living in this generation. In Trip Gabriel’s article “Plagiarism Lines Blur for Students in Digital Age”, he claims that digital technology makes plagiarism and cheating much easy. The internet contains much information that is free and easy to access for many students. In his article, Trip Gabriel interviewed professionals or educators as well as students of various Universities in U.S. to prove his claims. By comparing examples from Trip Gabriel’s article and David A. Tomar’s writing on ghostwriting business to my own ethnographic study on younger generations perceptions of technology on

Technology has digitized the traditional setting of a classroom with its enticement of quick access and efficiency. As alluring as it is to Reuben Loewy that we follow along with the times, others believe otherwise, because they believe it puts the students at risk of not only their

With all of the technology Americans have, it’s easier than ever to have access to the news. Patrons of the media then have to take the information given to them and decipher what’s accurate, unbiased news and what is news that

Whether it is news channels on the television or whether it is Twitter and Facebook news, the public will always have a way to find out current reports. Since society has become so dependent on technology, a greater amount of individuals get their actual news online and especially through social media. As many of the public know, you cannot trust what people online are saying. Since individuals are so accustomed to getting the news online, many of them tend to believe what they just happen to scroll across on Twitter and Facebook or any other sort of social media. Finding actual facts and truths on the news have become so difficult now, due to all of the millions of different sites and places where we can get our news from. The news online tend to be biased and untrue due to how openly and freely individuals can create their own site and “reports” on current events such as a real news channels would. Social media has just made it more complicated to find the actual accuracy of current events but with enough research, dedication, and using the SMELL test, finding the right information would not be as

After reading “Stuyvesant Students Describe the How and the Why of Cheating” by Vivian Yee, I can wholeheartedly agree with the opinions and facts presented in the article. Why? The cheating described, whether light or serious, is prevalent in the schools that I have attended. The goal of attending a prestigious university and obtaining a prestigious job has led to a craze over grades, to the point where students describe the feeling as “...addictive, in a bad way, in a sick way” (Yee 20). Similarly, the craze over better grades has led to various actions of cheating such as plagiarism and copying of answers. As stated in the article, cheating has become such a prevalent and normal aspect of schools today that the “lines are blurry”, and that no one really knows what

If Miley Cyrus, Chris Brown, and Caitlyn Jenner are examples of American Society's moral compass what does this truly indicate for our future generations? Young people are choosing paths that will result in destination and and the destiny of America in the 21st century. Role models are people looked to lead by example. The younger generation does not have morally educated role models to uphold standards that the children once did in the 1960’s. Today we are lacking visionaries with altruistic goals like Martin Luther King. He currently being outshined by “gangster” rappers with messages of hate, violence, and the degeneration of women. Young Americans are our country's future. Social media’s are broadcasting scaldis news like sex tapes being

Having a role model is great because of it can inspire me more and help me achieve goals in my life. My role model is a businessman, he went to community college , and a great father. He is my uncle and he achieved many different tasks and he never gives up on what he wants.

News is meant to announce to the public important current events going on around them. Daily, reporters relay headlines consisting of subjects related to politics, entertainment, the U.S. and the world, weather, etc. News also is released in many forms such as broadcasted on television and radio, printed in newspapers and magazines, and by word of mouth. Due to the worlds consistent change of nature, it’s important to have reliable sources revealing up-to-date information. Without it, the public would be unaware of issues around the world that could possibly have a great effect on their lives. But, why has news become such an immediacy where citizens become so angry when not informed at the time they feel they should have been?

It seems that technology is growing, improving, and changing at an exponential rate. Technology now affects every part of our lives from the time we get up to the time we go to bed, and even as we sleep. One of the major areas that has been affected by technology is education. At one time, the only option for students to complete their education was in a traditional classroom setting. There has become a major need for non-traditional education because there has been a growth in the amount of non-traditional students that exist in our society. The advancement of technology has

Today, schools are being pressured more and more to improve the technology they use and teach in the classrooms. Parents are placing this pressure on schools so that their students have the skills needed to compete in the real world job market. Students are placing pressure on the schools to improve technology by having more knowledge of

People see them everywhere; on the television, on magazines, and on the internet; celebrities. Since they are in the media so much, they are constantly influencing society, especially younger audiences. These celebrities are not positive role models for today’s youth. They are not positive role models because they make people believe dangerous, and untrue information regarding health, appearance is more important than everything else, and that more money means more respect.

Technology has made great strides in the past 20 years. It plays a very important role in our lives today and even plays a critical role in the way students learn all over the world. Unfortunately, students now rely on technology instead of learning key fundamentals. Technology has replaced the need to learn and most answers are just a google search away. Technology has also become expensive and lower socioeconomic school districts have found affording the newest technology difficult because of their lack of funding. Technology is a great learning tool when used appropriately. The lower socioeconomic school falls behind in the expanding frontier of technology in the classroom because they cannot afford it compared to their counterparts and results in a gap in education. The development of technology in the classroom has caused students to fail the learning of fundamentals and has exploited lower socioeconomic school districts.

However, some would say that within education, the use of technology can influence students to cheat or take the easy way out on their assignments. “Students today can easily access essays, reports, class notes, tests, etc. online, making it that much more difficult for teachers to know if the work their students hand in is original” (Ronan). This dilemma interferes with teenagers processing new information. The Internet is a great tool; however, teens may rely too heavily on it, and worse, believe everything they see. I believe that the internet can be a great source to gain more knowledge, however, one needs to acknowledge how to effectively use this tool to benefit them.