Technology, technology is everywhere and most part nobody even realizes that technology is taking over. Everyone is excited for the new things that add into it but does not realized how it has taken away from us. Our generation has very little privacy due to technology. Computers are installed everywhere for an example at this restaurant located in lake Heffner Oklahoma Red Rock Canyon, their restrooms have projectors installed in the mirrors so we would not miss what is going on the television. Technology has affected the way we store information our ideas, even our ability to think ahead has all been affected. Computers have affected children’s learning; children would rather be on a computer/ tablet …show more content…
A negative aspect is that when people do research or homework, it gives them the straight answer instead of using knowledge, but same thing as positive. It allows us to look up things that you cannot find easily in a text books. It can also give false information. Communication isn’t the same as before people use to go see each other just to remind of something and now in days all we do is send an email, text, or a call. However; without computers we would not be able to get ahold of people we lost contact with, or someone you love is traveling to the other side of town. Back then people didn’t have a way to reconnecting with people the lost in touch with they had to go looking or write letters and that would’ve been hard if the person kept moving from one place to another. For an example; my boyfriend went to Vietnam to take care of his grandma, the only way him and I talk is through text and facetiming, and all that is by …show more content…
Just because people around cannot see your screen does not mean other people or companies like Facebook or any social media would not be able to see what you post or share. Someone can even hack into your computer and get your information of it, like would you even know? Probably not. The world does not have privacy any more, middle schoolers don’t even know what privacy really is anymore. They post everything on social media even thinks that should not even be shared with the whole world. Social media how rules about being artene age to make an application but their kids that lie about their age just so they be “cool”. According to Turkle the writer of the book how computers change the way we think, “high schools’ students tend to be willing to provide personal information online with no safeguard, and college students seem uninterested in violations of privacy and in increased government and commercial surveillance”. Students do not understand the true meaning of privacy, they should know that they have rights.
Education, schools today have students with either own email and passwords so they can see when they go in computers or any time in class. For the last few years the schools been testing by computers, I have yet seen a paper pencil test since I was in middle school. Computers are meant to help students focus and understand the material their learning. Although; there is spell check