Every day the world is changing and things are done differently. Technology has also affected the way students are taught and in which they learn. It has changed the classroom. Technology saves us time and allows us to access material in only minutes. “The Internet and online subscription databases, even as a supplement to the printed works in the library, allow students to see, and force them to consider or reject, points of view that they might never have encountered in decades past” (Gow 4).With all the time technology produces, it also has downsides and it also may have created a less intelligent society.
Some look at technology as if has dumbed downed society but if we take a look at the past we see that it has helped to improve. In the early nineteen-seventies, the graph calculator was introduced; this allowed math work to become easier. Move forward and we have Google, a site that gathers facts; we do not have to waste time and look through encyclopedias and waste time when we have all that at our disposal. There are other tools like PowerPoint and excel that there are some who would not give up these tools just because they makes work easier (Gow 4).
“Google makes deep reading impossible. Media changes. Our brains' wiring changes too.
Computers think for us, flattening our intelligence” (Darlin). Darlin says that when technology is first introduced it is feared, Socrates was afraid of the impact of writing would have the man’s ability to think. When the graph calculator was introduced it was banned from some engineering classrooms. It was thought that it would become a crutch for these students. Years later these same engineers brought the invention of iPods, cellphones and high definition television (Darli...
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... a way to learn or to teach. Others use these tools for entertainment purposes only and get no real value from it.
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