Do you use any tech gadgets every day? If so do you think you're getting dumber? People assume that iPhones and laptops are evidence of progress. In some ways that’s true, But it is also having a negative effect on this generation. Technology is making us dumber.
You don’t need science to tell you that technology is making you more easily distracted. Whether it is you leaving from a task to check your phone or scrolling through your friends Facebook profiles. People are becoming more absent minded to the task you should be preforming. Teens this day in age get more distracted than previous generations. In 2012 Pew Research Center surveyed more than 2,400 teachers. researchers found that most of the educators feel that students are more distracted than the previous generations. Eighty seven percent of teachers have agree with the statement, “Today’s digital technologies are creating an easily distracted generation with short attention spans”(wall street journal). Students of this generation have a shorter attention span that any other generation. …show more content…
Most people say the blame for that is because of hypertext. The links are scattered through articles online. These links make your brain work harder than it would have if you were reading a book, leaving less brain power to process what you’re reading. Even just reading on screens, like a laptop or iPad that has links or no links has been shown to lessen the comprehension of the passage. In a survey "students who were asked to recall a passage of text remembered significantly more of the passage after a week" (Scientific American; Saperstein Research). While reading online might seem better than reading a novel your more likely to remember and comprehend the information more than if it was
You don’t need science to tell you that technology is making you more easily distracted. Whether it is you leaving from a task to check your phone or scrolling through your friends Facebook profiles. People are becoming more absent minded to the task you should be preforming. Teens this day in age get more distracted than previous generations. In 2012 Pew Research Center surveyed more than 2,400 teachers. researchers found that most of the educators feel that students are more distracted than the previous generations. Eighty seven percent of teachers have agree with the statement, “Today’s digital technologies are creating an easily distracted generation with short attention spans”(wall street journal). Students of this generation have a shorter attention span that any other generation. …show more content…
Most people say the blame for that is because of hypertext. The links are scattered through articles online. These links make your brain work harder than it would have if you were reading a book, leaving less brain power to process what you’re reading. Even just reading on screens, like a laptop or iPad that has links or no links has been shown to lessen the comprehension of the passage. In a survey "students who were asked to recall a passage of text remembered significantly more of the passage after a week" (Scientific American; Saperstein Research). While reading online might seem better than reading a novel your more likely to remember and comprehend the information more than if it was