We tend to focus sometimes on the negative effects of technology on kids. What are some positive uses of technology that teens (or young adults) engage in?
And on the other side of the issue, are there negative aspects to these positive uses?
Monday, September 16, 2013
"What's the Matter With Kids Today?"
Here is the post for your comments on Amy Goldwasser's "What's the Matter With Kids Today?"
We tend to focus sometimes on the negative effects of technology on kids. What are some positive uses of technology that teens (or young adults) engage in?
And on the other side of the issue, are there negative aspects to these positive uses?
We tend to focus sometimes on the negative effects of technology on kids. What are some positive uses of technology that teens (or young adults) engage in?
And on the other side of the issue, are there negative aspects to these positive uses?
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I think the most positive use of technology that teens engage in is a close one. To me, first, it is the ability to keep in touch via Facebook, E-mail, Skype, etc. Second, is the use of online schooling. Kids who were either too shy, learn better on their own time, or for whatever other reason you can think of now have an alternative that still creates a good end result. The negatives to these is that people, mainly kids, aren't as personable anymore. It's easy for someone to break up or ask out over text than in person. Also, many people call when they are at someone's house instead of walking up and knocking on the door. Little things seem a tad bit meaningless, and it's basically just laziness. For the online schooling it also takes in the laziness factor. I know some people who simply take online classes because they don't want to get up before ten in the morning (though it's a small group). However, I think both of these are generally good given the direction society is heading and how it is changing.
ReplyDeleteThis sort of echoes my previous comment about children today not being able to function at all without reading/writing. They're forced to be able to do it by social pressures.
ReplyDeleteNot sure that it is all QUALITY reading/writing, but then who's to say it ever was. I can tell you this much: Access to the amount of information that is available today and the ability to efficiently communicate across the entire planet is well worth the price of having to use context clues to decode "ttyl" or "idk".
If there was one thing you could change about today's teenagers, what would it be?
ReplyDeleteLaziness. Teens are spending too much time inside. Go out and play. There are so much greater things to be discovered outside.
DeleteI would have to agree. Another thing is that parents often use technology to babysit. I think the social aspect is being distroyed. I know people that are scared to talk on the phone.
DeleteI really didn't like this article she doesn't really back up her points. Plus kids are going on line and writing essays with proper grammar, they are using slang terms and usually just copying what other people write.
ReplyDeleteThe things teenagers write on Facebook and online forums are not helping them. They write with poor grammar and abbreviate so many words its hard to read.
ReplyDeleteOn the other side though, the internet gives you so much access to new reading. You can learn a lot by reading articles and stories on the web. A lot easier at times to access than finding books on the same subject.
I have a question for everyone; all these articles have either been against technology, or they see technology to be this really good thing. Why is it one or the other? Is there maybe a middle ground to be found?
ReplyDeleteI am strongly on the middle ground. People now days are very dramatic. They have to be extremes to get attention. Sure there are people out there who are on the extreme of technology use, and someone should probably help them. But, most people are safely on the middle ground. Some days I get hooked on pinterest, but if I know I need to get something done I won't touch my phone. I am thinking we need a middle ground kind of an article. I am sick of all the dramatic extremes.
DeleteI honestly think that technology use can go in phases. When I was in high school I was a heavy texter and was on my phone a lot. Graduation came along, I started college, and I for some reason could care less about my phone now. I hardly ever text people now. I have talked to a lot of my friends about this and a lot of them have agreed that the same happened to them. As Britney said, there are people "who are on the extreme of technology use," but I think it just depends on the person.
DeleteI think that the grammar argument is a very weak argument to make for a couple or reasons. First, not everyone on the Internet uses poor grammar, and ususally those that do will get corrected by someone else. Second I've had published writers tell me that they don't worry about their grammar because publishers hire people to fix a writers grammar mistakes (that being said writers still try to have good grammar). If they don't take the time to learn the grammar rules in school then it doens't matter where and what they write,it will always be poor, so brining up the grammar argument is, as I mentioned, a weak attempted argument.
ReplyDeleteI don't agree with the argument about all teenagers not wanting to read an actual book because when I was a teenager I would read all of the time. Every night before I would go to bed I would read. I loved reading so much that I preferred it over the social interaction websites like Facebook.
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