The Overuse of Technology Within Education

Our world is changing gradually bringing these changes into people’s daily life styles; consequently, a person’s potential to embrace these challenges and revolutionize with them has become an important factor to analyze people’s way to prepare themselves for the future. According to Gilbert Valdez, educational technology, especially computers and computer-related peripherals, have grown tremendously and have permeated all areas of our lives. It is incomprehensible that anyone today would argue that banks, hospitals, or any industry should use less technology. Most young people cannot understand arguments that schools should limit technology use. For them, use of the Internet, for example, plays a major role in their relationships with their friends, their families, and their schools. Teens and their parents generally think that use of the Internet enhances the social life and academic work of teenagers. Nonetheless, not all people has the possibility of changing towards a technological society due to the lack of personal progress through technology, and the misunderstanding of this tool is leading future professionals to become technologically dependant; in other words to rely only on technology without considering the possible consequences that it might have on future professionals development and their educational background. The overuse of educational technology has been growing over the recent years due to the emergent technological developments around the world; however, it can be solved by searching for a new balance between the uses of technology within education.

First of all, there are three fundamental impacts from the overuse of educational technology over students’ development. On one hand, the inefficient accessibil...

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... potential of creating future professionals. The accessibility and integration that both students and professors need to have in order to enhance this process is essential, besides peoples’ attitude towards the problem and its solutions could be a defining factor for its possible outcomes. If the educational system do not change in a way that it could adapt to the possible changes of the future, the consequences would be sever for students and their academic progress; the changes within the future could be faced through the correct usage of technology; people need to define the limits of technology by working proactively in order to tackle the possible problems due to the overuse of this particular tool; they need to find a way to implement solutions that would successfully overcome the problem in order to face the challenges that the future might bring with it.