By the end of 2015, kids will own a smart phone before owning a pair of roller skates. Kids will have sent twenty-thousand texts to one another before going outside to play a game of kick ball. Teenagers will cry over an opened Snapchat without a reply from their significant other before shedding a single tear over three undone homework assignments for their English class. Grandparents will have annoyed their teen-grandchildren to the point of no return over the cute article they had shared to them through Facebook, explaining how to bake a cake that looks identical to a football; perfect for any tailgate party. Things like Facebook, texting, snapchat, and other social media have made society become dependent on their smart phones to be able
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They’re also using technology to interact with one another, and aren’t being cautions of the consequences this could potentially cause. In Sherry Turkle’s article, “How Computers Change the Way We Think”, she explains her views with the way technology is currently shaping the young world and their critical thinking skills. For years Turkle studied not only what the computer is doing for us, but what it was doing to us. This included how it began changing the way we see ourselves online, and how we’re able to accomplish everyday tasks. She states, “Today, starting in elementary school, students use e-mail, word processing, computer simulations, virtual communities, and PowerPoint software. In the process, they are absorbing more than the content of what appears on their screens. They are learning new ways to think about what it means to know and understand.” By growing up into such advanced technology this day and age has, teens as well as children aren’t exactly given the chance to learn how to communicate to others properly or complete tasks on their own. With that being said, critical thinking and developing ideas have become increasingly harder to obtain and perform on a daily
They’re also using technology to interact with one another, and aren’t being cautions of the consequences this could potentially cause. In Sherry Turkle’s article, “How Computers Change the Way We Think”, she explains her views with the way technology is currently shaping the young world and their critical thinking skills. For years Turkle studied not only what the computer is doing for us, but what it was doing to us. This included how it began changing the way we see ourselves online, and how we’re able to accomplish everyday tasks. She states, “Today, starting in elementary school, students use e-mail, word processing, computer simulations, virtual communities, and PowerPoint software. In the process, they are absorbing more than the content of what appears on their screens. They are learning new ways to think about what it means to know and understand.” By growing up into such advanced technology this day and age has, teens as well as children aren’t exactly given the chance to learn how to communicate to others properly or complete tasks on their own. With that being said, critical thinking and developing ideas have become increasingly harder to obtain and perform on a daily