INTRODUCTION It seems that every year people turn increasingly toward living their lives through technology. It has inundated society, families, jobs, and lives. Three developing trends that in some ways overlap each other are specifically related to living in a technology world. These trends are particularly important to the school librarian because many students are living their lives through the web. In order to reach those students, the librarian must be knowledgeable about the trends and applications and be able to use and apply them in a library setting. By using them, the librarian makes the library relevant to students, and brings the library to students where the students are.
The first trend is social communication
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TREND ONE - SOCIAL COMMUNICATION Social communication is found on the web through blogs, online journaling, emailing, instant messaging, and micro-blogging. People use these applications to track their lives, inform others what they have been doing, make recommendations, rant about an interest, and a variety of other reasons. There is some sort of social communication about virtually every topic under the sun. Blogs, which is short for web-blogs, are essentially a place online where people go to write about their thoughts, ideas, feelings, etc. in their own voice in order to share it with the masses (“Exploring web 2.0 and libraries,” 2006). In a blog, someone can respond to the writer with a comment, and then the blogger can post the comment for others to view, or they can delete it. In education or in a library, a blog could be used to share ideas about a topic, recommend books, share thoughts on a book, share news about upcoming events, share information about a past event, etc. (Naslund & Guistini, 2008). Blogs are very applicable to the library setting. It is a place to have conversations about anything. It could become a sort of on-line book club. The blog should invite participation. The more engaged students are, the more likely they are to care about the library (“Technology trends for a 2.0 world,” 2007). Some of the more popular blog sites are blogger.com, edublogger.com, and blogsopt.com (Naslund & Guistini, 2008). Micro-blogging is
The global dispute that centers on technology, ranging from basic machines to the internet of things, is a very broad one. To each person the use of electronics means something different, some despise the rate in which the world is turning to robots and some praise the idea of the world turning into the real life version of the movie “Back to The Future”. If you walk around randomly asking questions about the future and technology, you are most definitely going to get a wide decree of answers. It seems though, as a unified decision that the world is in favor of such changes and will continue to move towards movies like “23”.
In today's society technology has arguably become one of the most important social aspects. People tend to rely on technology for day to day interactions. That being said has this ultimately taken away needed experiences that youth need to grow from? The answer is yes, now instead of face to face interactions people revert to text messages or snapchats. Which ultimately takes away from the growth that is essential for youth to mature and learn from these social interactions that used to be valued. It also builds unhealthy habits and even addiction.
We all know technology is a good thing, right? Or is it? We can all come up with reasons why technology is helpful or appropriate like we can for a particular medicine. And while some drugs are really great to cure or prevent a disease, sometimes the side effects outweigh any possible benefit. The same is true with technology. Some common negative side effects of technology are kids playing on their phones instead of going outside to play or young people not interacting face-to-face as much as they used to. Parenting is an area that has suffered since the rise in technology, specifically with phone use.
Since the recent advancements of technology in the Digital Age, our youth have opportunities available to them that amplify their learning experience. They now have advantages that weren't presented in the times before them. There are programs and devices that schools now provide in order to promote advancements in education, both in the classroom and on an individual scale. Although there are benefits provided such as furthering education, networking, blogging, and career opportunities, it is hard to ignore that some children may start to compromise their childhood through connections to a technological device. Rather than going outside to explore the world and by extension themselves, they do not come to learn who they are because they are too busy shutting themselves inside, in a state of isolation, while they are online. Technology has clearly had notable ramifications on the youth and their brain growth and stimulation.
Technology shapes the world. Technology is constantly advancing and changing everything in society. It molds who children become and how they act. To place technology in the hands of children is the hand them the entire world in one small box. Should children be given unlimited knowledge? Should they be able to have access to the world during class? Children must learn by the new ways of advanced technology so they can better understand the changing and moving world around them. Computers are important to the classroom environment. They educate children of the world around them and they give children opportunities to research on their own.
Technology has always had a significant impact on the way we communicate and socialise. Today’s technologies have, in many cases, become so integrated within our daily lives, that they play a part in constructing our existence and understanding of reality. The Internet is one such piece of technology that influences our perceptions of our self and our surroundings. This essay will aim to explore the social implications of experimentation with identities online, as well as evaluating the ways in which new technologies may continue to shape this issue in the future.
Technology has always had an enforcement on the United States since it came to existence. Many of these tolls could be for the better, but they could also be for the worst. For example, how many of us have a smart phone that has multiple applications?
Sims are the most dependent people in the world. Anything you say they do, or don’t do, because they rely on us to live. When I tell a Sim to eat they do, when I tell one to go to the bathroom they do, and when I tell them to stay up for three days straight talking to an alien they do. We all know at least one person like that.
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Across the world, everyone has one thing in common: perspectives. However, it is important to note that these viewpoints are not the same. Every individual has had different upbringings, resulting in differing opinions about different issues. One of these issues is the use of technology in learning. With today’s expanding technology, there is a myriad of entertainment apps and games for students to enjoy. This serves as a convenient scapegoat for teachers that have failing students. Rather than accepting that some students are trying their hardest or that they simply do not care enough about the class, they are quick to blame the rise of phones and apps for their student’s poor performance in school. No matter the topic, if both sides of an argument are articulated in a fair manner, bias is more likely to be eliminated.
With the technology that is available today, children in this time period are grasping more information at an earlier age than past generations. The possibilities that are being developed are limitless for the coming years. Today’s technology is entirely beneficial for children when used appropriately inside and outside the classroom. Technology is transforming how we learn today, starting with early childhood education. There are appropriate uses of media interaction and technology in childhood education such as enhancing their knowledge of digital literacy, to introduce different parts of the world and broaden social interactions for the next era.
I do not agree with the APP’s recommendation of having only two hours of daily entertainment and screen time for kids and teens. I believe that there should at least be 4 - 6 hours of recommended technology use each day. There are multiple reasonings to have a 4 - 6 hours of electronic time. People say that technology increases the way people do things at their schools, jobs, and at home. Technology helps people at school because many schools are now having more technology to help the kids understand. Technology also helps people at home, it helps them complete tasks throughout the house. Electronics help people at work because every day most jobs use computers and they help us complete our jobs. Adolescents can become more educated with a touch of a couple of buttons!
People’s current internet and other digital habits do affect their ability to be good friends, students, and members of society. Socially, the usage of technology affects people's ability to communicate and how they react to certain situations. We will explore the changes that have occurred to the human psyche when the body has had any technology usage. Technology affects essentially all members of society and therefore is changing humankind in a sense.
Wanting insight to what has emerged in technology, I pestered my grandmother about what it was like growing up in her generation. “You’ve always got your face glued to your phone,” she says without missing a beat, “back in the sixties when I was in high school, the party line phone hung on the wall and had a time limit of three minutes before disconnecting with a ten second warning prior. There was no such thing as privacy. You had to stand in the middle of the kitchen and talk on the phone in front of the whole family. There was no thought of cellphones.”
If technology continues to influence and shape our brains in the future, then at the end of the life will we be the same person? With the introduction of new technologies in the society, the human mind is constantly changing and adapting to the changes. Today people are becoming more and more addicted to technological devices that their thinking ability is deteriorating. Human minds are continually relying on an electrical device. As a result, it is becoming hard for people to use their own mind. Remembering an important date or information will soon start to disappear as people will lose their memorizing ability. People have become so reliant on technology that it becomes hard for them to focus on simple tasks and the small things that life has to offer.