Computer technology has been very widely used in everything that we do from work to our studies. Our generation today (well my generation) uses smart phones, laptops, tablets, and other types of technology on a daily bases and even most of the day. More and more schools now are giving students laptops and tablets to work on homework and study the material. But do all students really do their homework and study using electronic devices?
In “Can Students Have Too Much Tech?” an op-ed article on the New York Times on January 30, 2015 by a developmental psychologist and columnist Susan Pinker. She believes that most students with access to those electronic devices are not using them the way that they are supposed to use it. Pinker supports her arguments by using research or experiment that other people have done that involves students using computers, uses some people who are professors, and other …show more content…
She gives information about studies that was conducted to support the argument about the use of technology without supervision effects the student’s progress in school. Pinker did a great job of making the audience relate to themselves and to their children about use of technology in schools to make them see her argument from her perspective and support her. Also, her solution to her argument is very effective at the end of the article because throughout the article Pinker describes her argument to lead to her solution to make not just an opinion article. In the end I think this article have a very debatable topic that has been talked about for years. The debate about the use of technology in schools never ends because people are divided in two, people who support a similar argument to Pinker and others support the opposite of Pinker argument, but overall I think that her article contribute greatly to the debate of the use of the students use of
In “Can Students Have Too Much Tech?” an op-ed article on the New York Times on January 30, 2015 by a developmental psychologist and columnist Susan Pinker. She believes that most students with access to those electronic devices are not using them the way that they are supposed to use it. Pinker supports her arguments by using research or experiment that other people have done that involves students using computers, uses some people who are professors, and other …show more content…
She gives information about studies that was conducted to support the argument about the use of technology without supervision effects the student’s progress in school. Pinker did a great job of making the audience relate to themselves and to their children about use of technology in schools to make them see her argument from her perspective and support her. Also, her solution to her argument is very effective at the end of the article because throughout the article Pinker describes her argument to lead to her solution to make not just an opinion article. In the end I think this article have a very debatable topic that has been talked about for years. The debate about the use of technology in schools never ends because people are divided in two, people who support a similar argument to Pinker and others support the opposite of Pinker argument, but overall I think that her article contribute greatly to the debate of the use of the students use of