In today's world, do kids really know how to communicate? Or has technology created a barrier for kids today to learn how to formally communicate? This topic comes up in almost every teaching class I have taken so far, and the answer is still not clear.
People go both ways on this subject and I can see good points in both sides, but in the end who is right? Children now a days, do not call their friends if they have a question, they just text or Facebook message them. Kids do not like to walk up to their friends house and knock but rather text their friends to open the door. Even when it come to reading, kids do not have to go buy a book they just have to upload one on their Kindel or iPad. Then when it comes time for the children to go off to college and give their first classroom presentation, most of them have fear of speaking in public because they have never had to formally talk in front of people before.
Now, this shocked me when I found out but some of my friends are able to text their bosses. I was outraged by this because once again technology has taken over. You are supposed to be formal at work and not have your phones out texting people. But to be able to text your boss and be like, "hey I am sick, I do not think I will be able to make it to work today" is taking the easy way out. I know for my job that my employers gave me their cell phone numbers in case I do get sick I can call them immediately to notify them. Not to text them.
This just goes to show you what the world is coming to and how technology is taking over. No one is going to have to have a conversation anymore. It is just going to be reading text over and over again for minutes that could easily only take 20 seconds if you were to just have a conversation.
Technology is developing everyday and quickly taking over our society. There are significant pros to having a technologically advanced society. It allows you to stay in constant contact with people at all times of day but is that a good thing. Multiple studies have been done that argue against a person’s ability to focus on more than one thing at a time. Multitasking is one of the things advances in technology is pushing for but it is not actually possible you are just splitting your attention. How is this constant need to be focused on multiple things at once effecting our societies youth? Is there a relationship between this and the rising number of children being diagnosed with Attention Deficit Disorder?
ReplyDeleteAll of these streaming forms of technology are filling kids free time. This is making reading for pleasure an outdated pastime. Instead of sitting down for 30 minutes a day to read a book people are filling that time by browsing on facebook, twitter, tumbler, etc. Reading is an important tool used to help build a child’s ability to concentrate for periods of time. The push towards faster moving technology is damaging this growth.
(http://news.stanford.edu/news/2009/august24/multitask-research-study-082409.html)