This video showed in great detail how much technology is influencing the youth of this world. I also know from my own personal experience and from my peers that technology plays a major role in the youths every day lives. Some kids can go an entire day without seeing a single person but are still in contact with someone the whole day. This may be done via texting or through a social network that is found on the internet. The video showed how some children can live a life that is totally different from who they are in real life just by being on the internet. In the movie some students even said that they never read books anymore. Everything they read is on the internet or through a summary page like spark notes. This can be bad for a teacher that is trying to teach English because they of course want the students to read the book themselves. They are missing out on many important details because a summary is just that. It summarizes the book and doesn’t include detail and it is hard to analyze what is going on in the book. Some students might just watch the movie online also. For math you could even go online and fine equations that will calculate the answers for you and all you have to do is type the numbers in. This is not learning for the students. It is just typing numbers into the computer just to get the answer. Then when it comes time to take a test they have no idea how to do it. This is a major problem for educators who are trying to teach students because they are constantly getting bombarded with information because of new improved technologies.
As a future educator you cannot really fight technology because it makes up such a large part of the students life every day. When they aren’t at school they are most likely on the computer or texting their friends. Even when they are doing homework they might have a tab open for looking up information and another tab on facebook updating things or chatting with friends. This can be very distracting and students might not be able to focus and learn. As an educator I want to be creative and find ways to work with the internet and still have the kids learn. Maybe in the future I can have to students find sources on the internet and still have them have to find two sources in actual books. This way they can use technology but still have to learn how to get information from books and to read. You have to find a happy medium between the uses of technology and having the students be resourceful in other ways then just clicking a mouse and having information that may or may not be credible. It is a very difficult job because technology is covering every area of life. When these students get out into the real world they will be using computers and getting information from them. I have to be able to have them learn the material and still have the students be able stay interested and not rely just on that way of finding information. Today computers are so accessible and they are everywhere. It is very important for students to be able to use the internet and still learn concepts and use their brains to analyze things for themselves.
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