Technology: The Negative Effects Of Technology In Education

Many people have the availability at home, work, and school to get on technology. Although most people nowadays don 't know how to use technology in the classrooms, because it is just starting to be a big thing in the field of education. The student 's parents need to know what is happening when all we use to get our work accomplished is technology. Even though during the school day, technology helps the teachers and the students work more efficiently. Technology does create some negative effects in education that can cause problems for these children in the future. The negative effects technology brings on is that there are too many distractions, when it comes to the students learning. Technology also affects the kids in many ways like mentally,

This affects the children’s mind because it is slowly making the child’s memory decrease so we now are relying on technology to remember everything for us. (DeLoatch) This affects the children physically because now no one is being active and all they are going to do is play video games. When kids aren’t active if affects their health and that affects their education because when the children are sick then they aren’t in class, then they don’t get the notes or work. Also video games affects how kids think and how they learn, so when Playing games or texting everyday affects the brain and how information in the brain gets processes. It doesn 't help their grades because no one is paying attention when the teachers are trying to teach or their work that they have to get done. Their emotions are also affected when it comes to using technology. An example is when people are bullying the other kids in the classroom or just in the school. Technology doesn 't help these kids because when the kids go home to try to get away from all of the negativity that the other kids are causing them, they end up getting bullied through social media from the same children that affect them through the day. People believe that technology brings up the self esteem of the children, but it brings it down because now these kids don’t have an escape to get away from these bulliers except getting rid of

It makes them work better because it gives them more capabilities to get more information on subjects they are working on and tools to use for those subjects. Also it helps the students who can’t be at school for any reason, catch up in class, and work on the work that they missed before getting back to school. It also allows the teachers to communicate with their students and answer any questions that they have with their work. It allows the students the availability of online classes and those classes could not be available at their school but it could help them with what they are trying to be when they grow up. Technology isn’t just for high school, the elementary schools are beginning to use technology in their classrooms. This helps the younger children start learning in the earlier ages because the teachers are using the technology in games, videos, and songs. At a young age, it 's difficult for children to focus on learning just on paper but if you make it fun for them it helps them learn it better because they want to do it over and over and technology gives that to them. “By learning to use technology in the classroom at a young age, children, are developing the skills and knowledge that is essential in today’s world.” (Kurzweil) Learning at a young age helps the kids be brighter in class when they grow up because when you learn something that is fun