With the internet, it connects everyone in the world, whether you are at work, school, home or even on a mini vacation away from your family. The internet has become a very important device for our society. It supplies us with a vast amount of knowledge and has became a keys source for information in the school system. Is this key source actually doing the job to educate our students or is it “dumbing them down”? Numerous arguments have aroused with technology being beneficial and non beneficial. While there are some positive aspects to the technology world in the education system, it seems that it is creating problems in children. “Technology stops children from engagement in these critical factors. Technology is sedentary, isolating, over stimulating, and results in child neglect, causing delays in child development, problematic and difficult to manage behaviors, as well as limited attention and learning ability. Teachers teach, not technology” (Remy-Milora, 2014). Could it be the the delays from the technology that is “dumbing down” our children and students? “Technology isolates children from not only the attentions of parent and teacher, but also from potential cooperative learning with other students. Immersion in a virtual world that is fast paced, immediate, “me” focused, reward-based, and totally in the student’s control, causes immense difficulties transitioning back …show more content…
Many reforms have tried to better it but has done nothing except add more failing objectives such as the common core. There are many reasons to blame for the failing of the school’s system, laziness, technology, the government in charge of the system and most importantly us. We are the ones allowing it to crumble down. We are no longer pushing each other to do the maximum work but instead, settling for the minimum. If the “dumbing of the schools system” stopped now, it can be fixed for the generations to come, instead of allowing them to fail even