College Students Should Use Technology Wisely
Recollecting my first class in college, I saw many students carried laptops or tablets, taking notes faster than me on these devices. Interestingly, I found out they are also using them in class, escaping from the reality to a fascinating online world. That is how Millennials attend a traditional lecture based class. The characteristics of the digital era defined what they learn and how they learn. Millennial college students are facilitating and evolving the classroom by turning it into a more digitized form. Technology does change the way the classroom operates and provides convenient study tools to college students; Nevertheless, there are still adequate evidences showing that technology is a …show more content…
Millennials depend largely on technological devices when they are studying. They think that technology is enhancing their study. Jeff Nevid, in the article “Teaching the Millennials”, listed the ways technology could be used as learning tools by saying “There are many established an emerging instructional technologies that can be used effectively, including PowerPoint, course management systems, student response systems, podcasting, and online learning systems.” Besides these ways that are used by college, there are also many study resources online. I can carry only a computer and found everything I need on the internet from a graphing calculator to a cheat sheet. The various range of learning platforms and study website online are really helpful for college students to preview or review after …show more content…
Because Millennials depend so much on technology to either solving problems or ask for solutions online, the process actually degenerates their brains and reduces the ability to do critical thinking. According to Jeff Nevid in the article “Teaching the Millennial”, many students now lack the ability to evaluate information they received despite of their proficiency in using computers. The search engines online are causing them to lose the analytical and skeptical skill needed to evaluate sources. Relying on technology to help us with multitasks, we give up our opportunities to meditate and deep-thinking. If things go on like this, students would become dummies, breaching the meaning of higher
Recollecting my first class in college, I saw many students carried laptops or tablets, taking notes faster than me on these devices. Interestingly, I found out they are also using them in class, escaping from the reality to a fascinating online world. That is how Millennials attend a traditional lecture based class. The characteristics of the digital era defined what they learn and how they learn. Millennial college students are facilitating and evolving the classroom by turning it into a more digitized form. Technology does change the way the classroom operates and provides convenient study tools to college students; Nevertheless, there are still adequate evidences showing that technology is a …show more content…
Millennials depend largely on technological devices when they are studying. They think that technology is enhancing their study. Jeff Nevid, in the article “Teaching the Millennials”, listed the ways technology could be used as learning tools by saying “There are many established an emerging instructional technologies that can be used effectively, including PowerPoint, course management systems, student response systems, podcasting, and online learning systems.” Besides these ways that are used by college, there are also many study resources online. I can carry only a computer and found everything I need on the internet from a graphing calculator to a cheat sheet. The various range of learning platforms and study website online are really helpful for college students to preview or review after …show more content…
Because Millennials depend so much on technology to either solving problems or ask for solutions online, the process actually degenerates their brains and reduces the ability to do critical thinking. According to Jeff Nevid in the article “Teaching the Millennial”, many students now lack the ability to evaluate information they received despite of their proficiency in using computers. The search engines online are causing them to lose the analytical and skeptical skill needed to evaluate sources. Relying on technology to help us with multitasks, we give up our opportunities to meditate and deep-thinking. If things go on like this, students would become dummies, breaching the meaning of higher