We can watch videos on YouTube and google to learn, or know something new. For example, as an English second language student, sometime I have a hard time understanding what the teacher is teaching in the class. Therefore, I look up the topic in YouTube and I watch videos. Youtube has been the tutor source for me. Also, I watched online videos to learn new recipes for cooking. Importantly, technology saves time. In the essay “The Parent Trap: How Teens Lost Ability to socialize” by Clive Tompson”, he talks about it is not teens fault that they are losing face to face conversation or social skills, but it is parents mistake. To support his essay, Thompson has written research fact which had been done by Danah Boyd. Boyd discovered, “is that today’s teens have neither the time nor the freedom to hang out” (56). Students have a hard time managing time for socializing with friends and family face to face due to the busy schedule. Therefore, technology is useful for students. For example, to do academic research academic, now we can use the internet to do research. If there was no development of technology students had to search for the book and read which would take a lot of time, but now students can just type it in a few words and everything else can finished by internet. Why do we need to have face to face conversation when we can deliver same the message by phone call, or by text? We do need to have
In “What Adolescents Miss When We Let Them Grow up in Cyberspace, Brent Staples argues that as teenagers are using the internet for more of their social interaction, they miss out on real world experiences that help transition teenagers to adults. Staples provides examples from his own personal experience and studies that support his thesis. I agree with Staple's claim to an extent that teenagers are losing crucial social skills from interacting over a screen rather than actual face to face interaction.
I agree with you that we need to change the way we teach because technologies got more advanced and it would be helpful if we ultilize it in our teaching routine. Technologies can also help students be more engage in the classroom instead of listening to boring lecture. This will help entertain students while improve education.
The growth of technology is constantly increasing everyday as people always find a way to either improve upon it or make something new out of it. Technology has been incorporated into almost everyone’s lives; whether it is from work, school, and even for their own entertainment. Almost anyone cannot go a day without seeing some sort of glowing screen; especially children. In 1999, 60% of children had access to a computer at home (Subrahmanyam et al p.124), which was only 18 years ago. Technology had advanced a whole lot in the past decade. One of those aspects of advancement is for children. There are many applications on tablets and computers that they can use for either learning or pure entertainment. Chip Donohue, Dean of Distance Learning and Continuing Education Director,
The question is: “Are computer’s truly effective in learning?” Many would argue that computers are an essential component while others believe that while a computer or technology will be able to function in ways that mimic human such as walking or talking, they have not mastered many other skills that human being possess. In article titled, Wire All Schools? Not So Fast” by Michael Dertouzos, Dertouzos argues that we (America) should perhaps look to our neighbors and possibly take on their ways of learning. This article was written in 1998 and we have now reached a different level of technology use here in the United States.
There are so many innovative ways we can use technology to better our experiences as educators. We can use technology to support diversity among many methods in which can be used. I love observing my students exploring with technology with many learning subjects. This experience helps them to become better communicators and problem solvers. Thank you Tiffany I wish you the best of your endeavors.
Socialization amongst the young has been severely damaged by technology and online media such as Facebook and Twitter. Alleys and parks that once contained multiple groups of children now seem quiet and often dissolute. Even at home children have less peer interaction, they get their social impute through text messages and the internet. The games they play together are often done from separate households. Game rooms, ice-cream parlors, bowling alleys, and gyms are often lacking the youth who used to seek each other out in the past. This will decay the health of socialization of our youth, and even weaken us as a society, if allowed to continue.
Our educational system is failing us. The United States of America is supposed to be the “greatest” country in the world but statistics are showing that our government/educational system is failing us; children/young adults of the nation. Being a student of a middle ranked school in Arizona, I personally have had a first-hand feel for how good and/or bad teaching affects students. Just in high school I have had teachers that would just assign websites as our lesson and even teachers that sit at their desk for the whole hour; don’t even go over the mindset, homework, and maybe only show one problem so that we’ll know what the homework will be like. Until sophomore year I didn’t even know the differences between you’re, your, too, and to. Even
The child may call and text their parents anytime. Using the internet, social media turned out to be a mode for people to unite and communicate with people they previously identify (Hatch, 2011). Social media such as Facebook is a good way of communication with people who are far from one another. It is an important tool for them to be able to keep in touch with their love ones.
Imagine a world today where people didn’t have the technologies. If there were no technologies today, humans wouldn’t have phones, computers, tablets, Instagram, Twitter, or Snapchat. Technology is now a big part of people’s society and predictable future. Electronic devices like cars, phones, tablets, and computers have all been created over time to make peoples live helpful and easier. The benefits of technology are that people can talk to their friends and relatives who are living far from them, they can learn new things and online courses, and they’re able to reach distant places within hours which took years of time to reach in olden days. Even though people think that technology is harmful to people; however, technology is good for people
We all know that technology refers to advancements in the methods and tools we use to learn. In the classroom, technology can encompass all kinds of tools from low-tech pencil, paper, and chalkboard, to the use of presentation software, or high-tech tablets, online collaboration and conferencing tools, and more. The newest technologies allow us to try things in physical and virtual classrooms that were not possible before. Today, I cannot imagine how difficult it is to teach without technology and how hard it is to learn without it. Technology plays a major part in our lives as students.
We live in a rapidly changing, highly technological world, where the present day digital technology affects several parts of our lives. At work, people use digital technology to communicate, gather information and solve problems relevant to their place of work. A growing number of people also use digital technology at home, to keep in touch with friends and family, check bank balances, play interactive games, participate in online forums and interact with others on social media websites and mobile apps, such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. With changes like these in lifestyle, where much of our communication, leisure and entertainment is online, and our smartphones being an essential part of everyday life, questions are arising concerning what technology may be doing to us and if technology is a threat to our health and wellbeing.
Digital Media is any media that is enclosed in a machine and is a readable format. Anybody can create digital media, it can be viewed, shared changed and preserved by anyone on computers. Examples of digital media include; mobile phones, compact discs, digital video, digital television, e-book, internet, minidisc, video games, the World Wide Web, e-Commerce and many interactive media.
Media and information literacy has a big purpose in every learner. It is very important to have knowledge into it and advance education about it. But the come out of this point, majority of the learners are lack of knowledge on MIL and it manifest of-the-line the level of knowledge in media and information literacy.
Technology gadgets have negative effects on children in social relationships. Social relationships are very important in our life in all places. Technology nowadays is creating family division in each house because of the