Argumentative Essay On Technology And Technology

As the first generation of the “digital age”, children can be more developed by using technology in their learning activities. “Child is every human in this world who is under 18 years old” (UNICEF). According to Cambridge Dictionary, “Digital age is the present time, when most information is in a digital form, especially when compared to the time when computers were not used”. According to Kumar et. al (1999), “technology consists of two primary components: 1) a physical component which comprises of items such as products, tooling, equipments, blueprints, techniques, and processes; and 2) the informational component which consists of know-how in management, marketing, production, quality control, reliability, skilled labor and functional areas”. The flux of technology , especially internet access, push society to the more fast and instant life. We can find any kinds of information, work, and buy something just by sitting in our room. So that, some researchers believe that technology should be given to children and it proves as followed ;
The dramatic changes over the past decade have prompted the Presidential Committee of Advison on Science and Technology, the U.S. Office of Technology Assessment, and high-level government officials to state that is incumbent upon the public school system to prepare all students to use technology in ways that will allow them to compete the increasingly complex technological workplace. (Ted S. Hasselbring and Candyce H. William Glaser, 2014)