When it comes to technology and the internet, we can receive information from all around the world in a matter of seconds, but we also have to use our best judgement to assess the validity of the statements when absorbing this information. In regards to instant information with technology, schools should consider the wide range of information that students have access to on the internet, the effects of their outside non-technological world, and how the stimulus of young minds can fluctuate with vast amounts of time playing games on the internet versus playing imaginative pretend games to explore their creativity. With that, schools should reassess decisions to completely integrate schools with laptops instead of books or typing versus writing.
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According to Esther Dyson’s essay (Source C), states the potential truth of students and technological advances, such as the internet, combining. Dyson begins with, “We’re living longer and thinking shorter”, in other words Dyson is saying that we do have longer lifespans, we are starting at younger ages to stop depending on our own minds as much when it comes to thinking and problem solving. Instead, we depend on the internet, and technology making everything faster is not necessarily a good thing. Dyson calls it a “mental diabetes”, students no longer have to use their imagination for play time, they are instead exposed to an overwhelming amount of information which is a way to disable a student’s imagination versus stimulating and exercising it. Students no longer have to process information on their own and develop problem solving skills, instead they can solely depend on the answers technology gives us without thinking twice. Using Dyson’s analogy of mental diabetes, schools should consider how their student’s imagination can be stifled by not having to think for themselves and depending on a machine to give them answers within seconds. A break from technology at school to be “bored” and stimulate their imagination would be beneficial to generate new ideas for
According to Esther Dyson’s essay (Source C), states the potential truth of students and technological advances, such as the internet, combining. Dyson begins with, “We’re living longer and thinking shorter”, in other words Dyson is saying that we do have longer lifespans, we are starting at younger ages to stop depending on our own minds as much when it comes to thinking and problem solving. Instead, we depend on the internet, and technology making everything faster is not necessarily a good thing. Dyson calls it a “mental diabetes”, students no longer have to use their imagination for play time, they are instead exposed to an overwhelming amount of information which is a way to disable a student’s imagination versus stimulating and exercising it. Students no longer have to process information on their own and develop problem solving skills, instead they can solely depend on the answers technology gives us without thinking twice. Using Dyson’s analogy of mental diabetes, schools should consider how their student’s imagination can be stifled by not having to think for themselves and depending on a machine to give them answers within seconds. A break from technology at school to be “bored” and stimulate their imagination would be beneficial to generate new ideas for