Technology And Technology

Media culture and technologies influence on curriculum in the classroom over the last 20 years has been astronomical. The increase in the use of multimedia and technology in our everyday lives has become a major influencer on the way students and teachers navigate within their classrooms. This has created a sense of urgency to incorporate this new tech culture into the classroom. With so many advancements and ideas for the facilitation of technology in the classroom, there are a number of seemingly outlying factors that contribute to technologies successful incorporation and use. When technology is seen as a valuable collaborative tool in the eyes of the students and educators it can aid in student learning, understanding, and lesson facilitation. When technology is not seen as a valuable collaborative tool its implementation and use is stagnant. The perception and attitudes of teachers play a major role in the success or failure of the introduction and implementation of technology in classroom.

The world has basically been taken over by technology. Its everywhere and easily accessible nowadays. There is an emerged advancement of the internet with its different platforms of communication. With all the technology available to use, a question is raised of whether it improves or destroys our minds.

Using technology as a resource in the classroom can become beneficial when helping a student learn material, or further improve, on a certain topic of interest. With the many advancements that have occurred in the classroom, students, in high school or college, are quickly able to find tutors or online guides that can help them solve tough questions. Allowing the use of technology in the classroom provides students access to an extensive network that allows them to adapt to more difficult ideas while pursuing a passion of their choice. Technology can help students, who appear to be shy, by allowing them to pursue topics independently or they can use it to better adapt in a social environment. Students can also benefit from technology by using it in a creative setting. However, students must realize that if technology is not used properly in the classroom, it can result in a distraction from schoolwork.

As a kid, you wouldn’t see me without a book in my hand wherever I went. I read at home, at school, and while I spent the night at my Aunt’s and Uncle’s. Reading was one of my favorite things to do when I was bored, but as I grew up and was introduced to more and more technology, reading became a thing of the past. Reading in today's modern society is seen as something that is out of date and somewhat pointless. With the advanced technology we have today, we spend our time watching videos on YouTube, spend hours scrolling through Twitter, and mindlessly stare at the TV when we are bored. Even if we wanted to read, we have no need to lug around a paper book with us, as we have whatever we want right at our fingertips.

“Today’s social media has undeniably transformed our means of communication, created new opportunities for brands and universities and even brought personality back into a digital world” (Willis 4). Through the recent years, technology advances have shaped the way we view and use social media. From texting on smart phones, internet platforms, smart cars and homes, technology is making it easier and more accessible to explore new possibilities. Some argue that this will make society lazy and unintelligent, I disagree. We our expanding our knowledge and the way we learn, pushing boundaries farther, and it is only the beginning. The new wave of technology and social media is expanding our world for the better.

Today in society, people tend to depend on technology more than ever before. Things like computers, email, and internet have greatly impacted society, but perhaps most of all business. Things can be done almost instantly with the use of technology. Technology has created an immense amount of jobs in our world’s economy. An entirely new group of people are needed to work with, develop, and maintain all the new technology in homes and the workplace. With everything made easier, and completely done for us, through the use of technology, people are slowly but surely forgetting to do things like mathematics, socializing, reading, literacy skills and critical thinking.

Emphasis within the workforce has shifted within the last century: from building weapons and machinery to support the war effort to working 9 to 5 jobs to support a family in the rising population, work had a purpose. However, as society settles into a century of peace, a number of issues have arisen that has challenged success within the workforce. Some of those issues include technological advancements and overworking. As society pushes forward scientific advancements, technology continues to take over skill-less jobs, such as cashies, while employees’ tendencies to overwork increases as the pressure to succeed increases.

Technology, such as cell phones, ruins human interaction. As a teenage user of this expeditious technology, I have concluded that this consumable “must have” item of our time destroys the peaceful tradition of social contact. People today find it hard to talk to others in person. They fidget, avoid eye contact, and on some cases lack the want of any social attention. These accumulating flaws of our human interactions are the doing of our praised technology,  as many have proven through research. Previous generations did not have this problem. Our ostensibly innocent pieces of technology has molded ourselves into people who struggle  to have decent interactions amongst others. Our deceivable devices may seem like they are not doing any harm, but technology is indeed ruining simple human interactions with one another.

We live in a time where when an adolescent complains about a headache or some kind of pain, an adult's first response is, “It's because you’re always on that phone!”. It’s a common belief that technology, such as social media and the internet, is corrupting the youth and making us less productive. Clive Thompson, in the excerpt of his book, “Smarter Than You Think: How Technology is Changing Our Minds for the Better”, asserts that the internet has had a positive effect not only on the quality of our writing but also on the quantity of writing in our time. Thompson supports his argument by first sharing historical evidence, then by analyzing statistics about the effects the internet has had on our writing, and finally, he describes personal anecdotes and expert testimonies to establish his credibility. The author’s purpose is to persuade the audience so that they believe the internet has had a significant impact on the way individuals express themselves through their writing. Although Thompson uses several rhetorical strategies that helped support his argument, there were also moments when his strategy worked against his claim. The author writes in an informative tone to his audience, the readers of his book and others interested in the topic of science and technology, and its effect on our times. The popular assumption is that technology has had a negative effect on society, by making individuals “dumb”, “lazy”, and “illiterate”. On the contrary, I believe social media, and

Many people have different experiences and ideas with and about computers, dependent on a variety of factors, including age and how far technology had advanced at certain points in their life. Some people are exposed to computers in the form of smart phones from birth, while others were born years before desktop computers even became standard household electronics. Most people are somewhere in the middle of those two. However, I was one of the people who was born prior to household computers and phones that did more than just make phone calls.

Everywhere I go I witness toddlers and small children with their faces in their tablets and smartphones. When the children arrive at home, they are back into their devices. When it is time for bed, the kids are watching videos or playing games until they eventually fall asleep. This behavior becomes the norm creating a pattern for children. If they do not have anything to occupy their time, then the parents will put a device in their hands. Technology can be a great learning tool, but parents really should limit their usage.

Technology overcoming the workforce 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 century’s technology has made advances in 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.

Steve Jobs once said that, “Technology is nothing. What's important is that you have a faith in people, that they're basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they'll do wonderful things with them.”

Technology may sound like a modern and futuristic term, but it has existed as long as innovation has existed. A cave man using a stone to grind up wheat is just as much an application of technology as Tesla’s implementation of self driving cars. The invention and utilization of the wheel is as technological as the invention of the smartphone. Every type of innovation and invention can be traced back to a point in time where someone saw a way to apply their knowledge to something. According to Webster’s Dictionary, the definition of technology is the practical application of knowledge especially in a particular area. For the longest time I always thought of technology as strictly being associated with electronics. That’s before I actually

I have a unique story with technology. It has been a big part of my life since I moved to St. Louis when I was five, a lot more than I ever thought about until now. I have made a lot of mistakes through it, like it has opened a whole new can of trouble for me. I have gotten through it, and learned from some of my mistakes. While it might cause me trouble, it also connects me to my family that lives far away from me. Especially my dad and step-mom. When I make those mistakes, my family is always there to glue me back together or “reboot my system” per say. I like technology because it helps me and the world. I can say that yes I have had some problems, but they have helped me grow up, learn about myself, work as a catalyst to connect me with my family.