City Technology College

Eliana Dockterman’s article, “The Digital Parent Trap”, from Time Magazine, tries to convince the audience to accept technology into children’s education. The year of 2013 was a very significant year, technology began to get the biggest updates yet; thus, encouraged Dockterman to influence parents and future parent’s beliefs in early technology benefits. She wants to raise technology as an effective learning tech fluency, as a result, she incorporated strong characteristics of information to…

middle-class Americans for the past 10 years. The fear of technology taking our jobs and not just that but doing better than us is a topic that is in early development but it seems like every day new and better technology is being invented and that topic comes closer and closer to being a huge problem. Kelly’s argument that robots/technology will take over our jobs, sheds a light on Carr’s analysis that people are becoming less effective than technology Kelly’s analysis of robot's growing…

Technology has made great strides in the past years, but it has also had a very negative impact in people's lives. Technology has made people antisocial, unable to communicate, and detached from the outside world. People in society are constantly using their phones, laptops, and tablets. This leaves very little room for person to person communication. Technology has made huge changes in how people live their day to day lives. People are becoming very antisocial because of the advances in…

As a robot engineer, my mechanism is programmed to achieve the high expectations of the owner through objective list theory. The rival engineer’s theory is hedonism, they believe this theory will help to civilize our world. In my persuasion process I will use examples from the film, “Life on the Axiom from Wall-E”. This will provide the truth that my product is well improved and can achieve greater things for a perfect life. Objective list will allow the owner of my apparatus to use the tools…

With technology being a still somewhat new part in everyone's daily lives, people can argue whether or not technology has a positive or negative affect on children. You can argue that technology is ruining today's youth, or that it is making the smartest generation that’s ever walked the earth. Education may be the most affected by the daily use of technology. “Superseding what was previously a simple room full of desks, writing utensils, and a chalkboard, technology is transforming the way…

Before reading books about what technology has done to society I used my phone and laptop every day but now that I am aware my habits have changed. In the book What The Internet Is Doing To Our Brains The shallows By Nicholas Carr (2011), Carr states that "We should be aware of technology ,and the way it affects our lives both mentally, physically, and socially;" technology should be controlled by its users and creators of technology, because if we can control technology we can use it in good…

Claim: Kids today have lots of technology to keep them entertained today, wherever they go. When I was a kid, that was not exactly the case. I didn't have a cell phone by my side or in front of my face at all. When in a car, I didn't have a television to watch movies on until I was eight years old, and even then, I had grown so used to not having it, I never really watched it. I didn't have portable game devices until I was fourteen. The most important stage of life is a person's childhood,…

books. Johann Hari weighs in on this discussion. In the article “How to Survive the Age of Distraction” by Johann Hari, the “age of distraction” is evolving because humans want to be on their electronics while reading. No matter how easy and fun technology is, it is still important to recognize what physical books have to offer. The author thinks it is better to have a physical paper book in front of the reader than a kindle or e-book because he or she will be able to have a deeper understanding…

is what interested George Simmel. Culture and societal customs drove him to delve into the reasons we do certain things, as well as why we create objects that become a part of our lives (pop culture). Simmel looked at how our new creations in technology changed the way we interact…

I wanted to be when I got older. I am the first person in my family to attend college, so I was never around anyone who had any type of education for their occupation. It was not until high school I decided I wanted to pursue the medical field since I have always had a strong notion to help those that are in need. Soon after a coworker of mine suggested the radiologic technology program at Roane State Community College. I began doing research on radiography and I was very intrigued. My favorite…