Technology And Technology

As far back as I can remember I have had a happy childhood. I didn’t grow up depending on technology to teach me the alphabet or learning to draw pictures on an iPad. Instead I played outside for hours in my tree house inventing new ways to climb the tree in my backyard, and learning to color inside the lines of my coloring book that I bought with the quarters I earned with my lemonade stand at the end of my drive way. Families that make up our society and individuals are affected by different aspects of technology everyday. The digital age that we have rapidly approached since the 2000’s has effected minds of young children teaching them to play a digital game in a computer

My earliest interactions with technology were about video games. When I was young, there was a family computer that my parents bought for my brother. Most of the time, I watched my brother playing video games with it. When my brother went out, I was able to play it for a while. My favorite game was Super Mario. When playing the game, I used the controls to jump, run, and shoot a fireball, eating mushroom and flowers and defeating enemies. I felt that the whole word was under my control, which made me excited and confident. Although the gamepad as well as the game screen was not good at that time, the family computer and the video games brought lots of happiness for me.

Ask any grandparent or great-grandparent and you will likely hear something like, “Back in my day, parents…” before launching into an explanation of how much better their way of parenting was. Obviously, children today are raised much differently than in past decades. This is largely due to changes in values, attitudes and beliefs about the role of the parent. Although each family adopts their own unique parenting style, a few of the major changes which have sociological implications have occurred in the role technology plays in parenting, the economic support role of the parent, and the decision-making role of the parent (Knox & Schacht, 2016).

"Happy cure day to me" (31) continuously pops up throughout the entire book. This expression means people celebrate the day they found out they would be able to leave forever, instead of celebrating birth. This concept changes the meaning of holidays and birthdays. Now, people celebrate the ability to live forever in a cruel, unsanitary world. Instead, people should appreciate every moment they get with their friends and family. The desire to constantly be busy doing something surfaces into everyday life. Fidget cubes and spinners are an example because people love to hold and play with these toys all the time to keep themselves "focused" even when their main focus appears somewhere else. With the use and development of technology, everything appears through the click of a button. Tablets, phones, laptops, and computers improve how an individual communicates with their friends, family, acquaintances, and even strangers they have not met. Inevitably, this allows us to ignore real-world events in the world around us.

IntroductionTechnology in the classroom, is it a good thing, or a bad thing? Whether we like it or not,technology is present in the classrooms and it will stay present for quite some time. There are people who have a positive outlook on technology, like myself. As a future teacher, I intend on using technology in almost every lesson I teach. I like the idea of having a somewhat paperless classroom to teach the students how to organize things online. Organizing online will be a skill they will use in the future if they ever work in almost any office, and instilling that information will be important. Throughout this paper, I will discuss the lesson plans I created for my fourth grade classroom and how I implemented technology. I will also inform on how technology is used to transform the classroom into a global learning center, enhance individual learning, connectcontent and specific learning goals, and supplement instruction to achieve content learning goals. There were five lessons written in total for the unit, “You Are What You Eat. The internet had a bounty of instructional materials to use to teach this lesson and I implemented some of thosematerials as well as online tools like Kahoot, Quizlet, Google Drive, Google Slides, and Google Documents.Transforming a classroom with technologyThe good old paper and pencil is just that, old. There are new and exciting ways to convey a lesson plan and utilizing technology is a great way to get students excited aboutlearning in

The technology used throughout the world today has drastically changed from when technology was first invented. With the increased growth of technology, the need for this technology in the learning field has expanded as well. The use of technology in education has provided students and teachers with almost an unlimited number of options for learning in and out of the classroom. The advancement of technology in recent years has enhanced teacher’s ability to be innovative in their instructional methods, by allowing students and teachers to utilize new interactive games and apps, using the internet as a teaching tool, and by creating new ways to learn.

All children develop at different rates. However, they all develop in the same way. There are four major areas in which children develop and learn skills. They develop socially, emotionally, physically, and intellectually. The way children develop with their social and emotional skills tend to go hand in hand. All these ways that children develop can be effected by the use of technology in some way. With the increase of technology, the willingness of parents in letting their children use it increases. “But there’s still so much we do not yet know about the uses or misuses of new technologies” (Farber). “Diagnoses of ADHD, autism, coordination disorder, developmental delays, unintelligible speech, learning difficulties, sensory processing disorder, anxiety, depressions, and sleep disorders are associated with technology overuse, and are increasing at an alarming rate” (Rowan). These disorders can also affect the child in all the areas in which their minds develop and can be a hard battle for the children to fight.

In today’s society, technology is taking over. Every year when technology advances, it attracts people to upgrade and use the new technology. Technology will always be a part of the world because a mass amount of people depends on it. It is exceedingly easy to pull out a phone and search anything. Children have been the most affected by technology due to the fact that they revolve around it. Today, most children own their own tablet or phone. I believe technology has affected children in good and bad ways. Although technology allows children to use it for educational purposes, they can be exposed to real life video game violence, easy access to anything, and distraction from important things.

Technology overcoming the work force has always been discussed as a stern subject matter for people nowadays. For humans to say that technology has made some advancements in the past is a major understatement. Throughout the past few centuries technology has made advances to agriculture, education, medicine, and even more benefiting human consumption. All of this may seem beneficial, but now computers are being invented to imitate human functions, possibly replacing them all together. For example, some restaurants do not even have cash registers, since a computer can compute all similar functions. There are missing components that have initiated challenges for computer’s development, making it extremely difficult to proceed the process of replicating human functions to the full extent.

In modern society, a man in his early twenties walks to a near by bus stop and sits down next to an elderly man. The younger man, wearing tight blue skinny jeans, has long hair, a headphone in his ear with music blaring, and his phone glued to his eyes. The older man give the younger man a dirty look and looks him up and down, judgment on his face. Gaps in understanding like this can be caused by perceived differences caused by generations. Generations are described as a series of people around the same age who because of their similar experiences in the world share overlapping worldviews and beliefs based on the times they grew up in (Berkup, Turkey, 208). Studies done by the Mediterranean Journal of Social Science states that there has been as many as five chronological Generations, starting from: the Traditionalists of 1900-1945, Baby Boomers in 1946-1964, Generation X, lasting from 1965 to 1979, Generation Y from 1980-1994, to present day Generation Z. Thought out society times change and the aging population must learn the valuable lessons that are brought about today by Generation Z, popularly deemed “Millennials”when is comes to having open mindset, understand the importance of technology, and have and over all more awareness to this progressing planet. For humankind to continue to flourish and grow, it is important for these groups to learn from one another.

Entertainment has evolved drastically started with the radio invented in 1895, in the 1927 the first television was invented, in 1973 the first cellphone was invented. Now in 2017 we have stereo systems, surround sound, 70 inch smart tvs that are flat screen with multiple special features, the Iphone X, and so much more. Not only are kids and teenagers are fascinated by the new technology but so are adults.”I never thought you guys would grow up wanting to play with your nephew and nieces toys at the ages of 17 through 25,” my mom said to me with laughter. However adults playing with drones, xboxes, and kid gadgets is only the beginning, kids are now getting cellphones at the ages of 7,8, and 9. Talking to my Mom about giving my little sister a phone a young age she talks about regretting it, because now she always wants to be on her phone and is attached at a young age. Technology can help many with entertainment for many reasons including tv, phones, music, and more. However technology has made the younger generation more lazy and more likely to play on phones and gadgets than to play outside or be less lazy.

In recent years I have noticed an increasing amount of acceptance towards technology. It seems that the most influential times of our lives is being alone on our phones. The amount of technology I use daily is something like a dance between man and machine. Originally, I thought of myself as being independent of need or want for technology. After researching into my own use of technology, the reality was clear to see. My life is completely intertwined with the ever-advancing world of technology. Our lives seem to have always incorporated tools in everyday life. These tools have evolved into a necessity from the automobile, an electric iron, and cellular devices with all different types of applications; applications help with other daily

I think I’m addicted to technology. It has just about disconnected me from the real world. I don’t interact with people the way I used to. I can communicate better online with people, rather than in person if I’m getting to know you. Technology has consumed so much of my time. The televisions, phones, and internet have kept me distracted. I don’t have time to study and, to do homework. I don’t clean as often as I should, it distracts me from getting things accomplished whenever I have certain task to complete. Technology has impacted my life so much to the point where I’m not able to be productive. Has this happened to you?

When looking back on human history, it becomes clear that technological advancements will inevitably lead to changes in some aspects of society. Although some inventions can cause more harm than good and should thus not be used, society should embrace the inventions with benefits that will significantly outweigh any potential disadvantages. One specific aspect of society that has been influenced by technological innovations has been our communication via writing. From marks on clay tablets to ink on paper to pixels on screens, writing has had to continually adapt to new mediums throughout its five-millennia-old history due to inventions such as the quill and ink, the printing press, and computers. Due to the decline of newspapers, some people believe that society may be at risk of losing the written word. However, this is not the case at all; by providing a new instrument for writing, the age of electronic communication will extend the lifespan of writing. The reason why writing was created in 3200 BC was due to humanity’s necessity to record information and communicate (Mark). Humanity’s need for writing can easily be seen by the fact that multiple writing systems were independently developed in three different places – cuneiform script was developed in 3200 BC in Mesopotamia, oracle bone script in 1200 BC in China, and multiple writing systems in 300 BC in Mesoamerica. Since its creation five millennia ago, writing has persistently adapted to become the form that most

I was able to take a break from technology for a majority of the 24 hours, however there were some cases that I had to use technology. I tried to go a whole 24 hours without using technologies like my cell phone, television, computer, anything that requires electricity. I decided to do this project with some kinds of justifications, like I could use my car because I needed to use my car throughout the day or I could use my microwave and refrigerator to be able to make myself food. I decided to stay away from my cell phone because that is the single most used technology in my life and I was curious to how much of my time I spent on my phone. Also, my computer is another one of my most used technologies, however I did have to use it once throughout the duration so that I may be able to do my homework. Lastly is my television, I watch a ton of movies and Netflix when I decide to not be on my phone or computer but also can be one of my most used devices.