When it comes to the argument of whether technology overall benefits this generation or inhibits it, Janna Anderson and Lee Rainie as well as Jennifer Gabriel have created articles that present efficient information on the two standpoints. Anderson, staff member at Elon University, and Rainie, member of the Pew Research Center, examine whether today’s younger generation has been altered from constant technology use in their article entitled “The Future of the Internet,” published in 2012. Additionally, Gabriel—Master’s student at the University of Central Florida—describes how technology has influenced millennials and how to adapt to this change in her essay, “Guidelines for Twenty-First Century Instructional Design and Technology Use: Technologies’
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In this overview, the authors explain that a survey was conducted to gather the opinions of many experts on the subject of technology’s influence (Anderson et al. 2). According to Anderson and Rainie, experts think that this generation will be “nimble, quick-acting multitaskers” as well as negatively affected by the need to experience pleasure or fulfillment quickly and without delay—described as “when you want it and you want it now” (Anderson et al. 2). By providing both sides of the argument from the start of the article, the two authors give the reader a more unbiased and broad amount of information as compared to a one-sided analysis. The overview concludes by listing examples of some of the predictions and arguments that the experts gave for their reasoning, such as that millennials’ brains have been “rewired” to adapt to using technology and that a social divide will develop due to the vast difference between generations (Anderson et al. 3). Before the topics have even been further examined, the reader has developed a decent understanding of the information and the opinions
In this overview, the authors explain that a survey was conducted to gather the opinions of many experts on the subject of technology’s influence (Anderson et al. 2). According to Anderson and Rainie, experts think that this generation will be “nimble, quick-acting multitaskers” as well as negatively affected by the need to experience pleasure or fulfillment quickly and without delay—described as “when you want it and you want it now” (Anderson et al. 2). By providing both sides of the argument from the start of the article, the two authors give the reader a more unbiased and broad amount of information as compared to a one-sided analysis. The overview concludes by listing examples of some of the predictions and arguments that the experts gave for their reasoning, such as that millennials’ brains have been “rewired” to adapt to using technology and that a social divide will develop due to the vast difference between generations (Anderson et al. 3). Before the topics have even been further examined, the reader has developed a decent understanding of the information and the opinions