There are no reasons to doubt the concern about the ways that today’s young people use technology, especially smartphone. Most of the users of smartphone have the same characteristic, their use of it seems “out-of-control”, and this feature begin to strongly distract their daily life. This distraction always makes them lose their focus on their work problem, because smartphone provide the information can entertain them. Therefore, people begins to blame smartphone and starts to ban it in school. Although the smartphone seems to be a big problem which distract teenager students, the real distraction is caused by students themselves.
As the typical technology users, the students of today are the people who always get distracted by overuse his/her …show more content…
On the contrast, it gives people a more convenient life. The smartphone is more like a helper for the students who can use it well because it was designed for this purpose. Whatever the ability of collecting information, or the convenience of mobility, the smartphone is always the best technology helpers for people, particularly while the students are learning or doing project. In the words of extend mind hypothesis, using personal devices “allow them to spend less time [focusing] on less important cognitive tasks and more time in connecting and constructing content knowledge” (Lodge 1). It is really helpful because rather than get distract and wasting time, these technology “helpers” can save time for the students. If a student needs to write a research paper about Chinese history, he does not need to find all the information by reading all the history books in the library. He can just simply type on his smartphone and collect the information provide by it. The device can gather information for people to choose, and it is so powerful that people can almost get whatever information they want. Therefore, the smartphone is not a problem but a useful …show more content…
What people should do is to train their will power to control themselves to change their technology devices to gaming devices to helpers. People should not fix a problem just simple cover it and pretend it has been solved. Likewise, simple banning the use of technology devices will not help to prevent the real problem. The ordinary life people lives may be simple, but the information provides by the technology devices gives people a bigger world then their own world. People’s curiosity become the power to explore the unknown; thus, they will not stop to receive the information which is unlimited. However, this curiosity can be overcome by the motivation or the pressure. If the students can set a goal and some reward, they will have more motivate to pay attention on their work. Therefore, people can only learn to control themselves to pay
As the typical technology users, the students of today are the people who always get distracted by overuse his/her …show more content…
On the contrast, it gives people a more convenient life. The smartphone is more like a helper for the students who can use it well because it was designed for this purpose. Whatever the ability of collecting information, or the convenience of mobility, the smartphone is always the best technology helpers for people, particularly while the students are learning or doing project. In the words of extend mind hypothesis, using personal devices “allow them to spend less time [focusing] on less important cognitive tasks and more time in connecting and constructing content knowledge” (Lodge 1). It is really helpful because rather than get distract and wasting time, these technology “helpers” can save time for the students. If a student needs to write a research paper about Chinese history, he does not need to find all the information by reading all the history books in the library. He can just simply type on his smartphone and collect the information provide by it. The device can gather information for people to choose, and it is so powerful that people can almost get whatever information they want. Therefore, the smartphone is not a problem but a useful …show more content…
What people should do is to train their will power to control themselves to change their technology devices to gaming devices to helpers. People should not fix a problem just simple cover it and pretend it has been solved. Likewise, simple banning the use of technology devices will not help to prevent the real problem. The ordinary life people lives may be simple, but the information provides by the technology devices gives people a bigger world then their own world. People’s curiosity become the power to explore the unknown; thus, they will not stop to receive the information which is unlimited. However, this curiosity can be overcome by the motivation or the pressure. If the students can set a goal and some reward, they will have more motivate to pay attention on their work. Therefore, people can only learn to control themselves to pay