Critical thinking is a self-guided, self-disciplined thinking which attempt to do reason at higher level quality in a fair minded way. It allow the thinker to improve the quality of his or her thinking by skillful analyze, assess and reconstruction. But here the question is, Does technology is killing the critical thinking skills? In other words, the improved technology of the modern world had any impact on the way people think. According to my reading and research, I agree with Alfred Thompson as technology did have negative impact on the critical thinking.
In the article “Technology Killing Critical Skills”, I think Helen Crompton had presented a better and strong arguments. Firstly, I like the way she started her writing by explaining about …show more content…
I totally agree with his point that technology is reducing student’s ability to think, comprehend and retain information. It is hindering the ability of students to analyze topic, deliberate and critically think. Partica Greenfield, UCLA distinguishes professor of Psychology and director of the children’s digital media center, Los Angeles, analyzed more than 50 studies on learning technology and found trends that both are disturbing and heartening. According to her, “most visual media are real time media that do not allow time for reflection analysis or imagination”. (Greenfield, 2009, p. 18-19). She stated that learners have changed as a result of their exposure to technology, there is a decline in critical thinking and analysis and an increase in visual …show more content…
As a result, it is essential to understand how to use it in an effective and advantageous way which will enhance both our smartness and intelligence. We should use modern technology as a resource and tool for information necessary to formulate an answer or explanation and to support our idea with data and statistics. We should understand the necessity to maintain our critical thinking and originality as a society and do not want to be a human vacuum that sweep up all information from the technologies we have without thinking. Instead, if we are so smart in using it, we should increase our drive to be inquisitive and think as it can serve as a path to open up research possibilities and truly contribute to our society’s goal of productivity and efficiency. Remember, our cognitive thinking is one of our greatest possession and we should take some measure to preserve it in this technological
In the article “Technology Killing Critical Skills”, I think Helen Crompton had presented a better and strong arguments. Firstly, I like the way she started her writing by explaining about …show more content…
I totally agree with his point that technology is reducing student’s ability to think, comprehend and retain information. It is hindering the ability of students to analyze topic, deliberate and critically think. Partica Greenfield, UCLA distinguishes professor of Psychology and director of the children’s digital media center, Los Angeles, analyzed more than 50 studies on learning technology and found trends that both are disturbing and heartening. According to her, “most visual media are real time media that do not allow time for reflection analysis or imagination”. (Greenfield, 2009, p. 18-19). She stated that learners have changed as a result of their exposure to technology, there is a decline in critical thinking and analysis and an increase in visual …show more content…
As a result, it is essential to understand how to use it in an effective and advantageous way which will enhance both our smartness and intelligence. We should use modern technology as a resource and tool for information necessary to formulate an answer or explanation and to support our idea with data and statistics. We should understand the necessity to maintain our critical thinking and originality as a society and do not want to be a human vacuum that sweep up all information from the technologies we have without thinking. Instead, if we are so smart in using it, we should increase our drive to be inquisitive and think as it can serve as a path to open up research possibilities and truly contribute to our society’s goal of productivity and efficiency. Remember, our cognitive thinking is one of our greatest possession and we should take some measure to preserve it in this technological