On June 21, 2018 PBS aired a debate in their program Point Taken, discussing if technology is making us smarter or dumber. In the debate, Emily Dreyfuss and Kathryn Finney advocated that technology is making us smarter, and Daniel Levitin and Jeff Glasse advocated that technology is making us dumber. This debate is highly recommended for
Over the years, communicating has changed tremendously. From oral tradition to email, the future of communicating is endless. Writing has been around for centuries. With the new emergence of technology there is a difference in the way people write. There is many pros and cons to this situation. Technology has brought about writing on laptops
Growing up with the immense growth of technological advancements, it was only to come that technology would start to effect the world of education. It has revolutionized the way that we learn, read, and write. There are so many new advancements that have come about that have increased the speed in these skills. There are…
In the society we live in today, technology has played a huge role in our everyday lives causing many of us to become too dependent and reliant on technology. As mentioned in the PBS video, “the internet is a network of 3 billion people connected by 1 billion websites” this network of knowledge can be
Over the past weeks on the Who Controls your Digital World First-Year-Seminar, the classroom has been discussing about the side effects of technology in our society. The class even went through a proper debate, arguing rather technology has done more good to us than bad. Due to the fact that this is such a relevant
I decided to take a look into the effects our technology today has on the way our society and growing generation is reading. I found this article, written by Martin L. Kutscher M.D., The Effects of Digital Technology on Reading, and was rather surprised by the results I came across. Going into this search blind, I was
The article I read, “Top 6 benefits of using technology in the classroom” stated how students are already engaged in technology making it easier for teachers to integrate technology within the classrooms. In other words, in today’s society technology plays a huge aspect in an individual life that integrating it for educational purposes isn’t anything
The article I read, “5 Problems With Technology In Classrooms” mainly focused on the negative aspects of using technology in classrooms as seen from the title of the article. One of the points the article covered on saw technology as a distraction as some students rather than utilizing the educational apps instructed by their teacher
Technology has really made an impact on the classroom. Five Ways Technology Has Changed Teaching and Learning discusses ways that the classroom has changed from a positive view if technology is used as an extension. The first is that technology can help teachers plan their lessons and make them more interactive for students. The second…
As technology revolutionizes the way we interact, live, and move, it also revolutionizes the way we learn and receive an education. With the new and improved devices from the popular tech-companies of 2018, not only is the way we are learning is being improved but the way we are being taught it is being improved.
