Technology has been a part of the human life throughout history. Day after day new ideas are being shaped to invent the latest technologies to help enhance our lives. However, technology has brought about countless concerns in today’s society. Everyone has different standpoints regarding new technology. Nevertheless, all around the world, people are questioning where and how technology is influencing us in the present and how it will influence us in the future. My question is; are students becoming less intelligent because of technology? Are online resources, like Google, affecting students academically? Is technology initiating “the dumbest generation”? (Bauerlein)
In my opinion, I believe that today students have grown to be lazy because of technology. Students utilize technology to make more difficult things easier; for example, as an substitution of simply reading over an essay a student would merely press F7 causing the computer to proof-read an essay for them. The easiness of this makes students less probable to personally take a second look at their essays, therefore; the student wouldn’t come across something the computer could have failed to spot. The student would then turn in an essay that does not meet their own intelligence level, which would make them appear less intelligent than they are in reality. Spell check also is making students’ worst spellers. Since students know that they have spell check they don’t have to know how to spell words right. Like in Plato’s Phaedrus, Socrates says, “cease to exercise their memory and become forgetful.”(Carr 3) If you don’t have to know the correct spelling, the correct spelling will not stay in your memory.
The use of technology to make things easier also can be seen as a positive. Although technology compels slothfulness, it also makes things more efficient and time saving.
(Not Finished :(...I have a meeting with the writing center next monday)
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