Digital Past

Technology has many pros and just as many cons. We can see this with the advancements in the medical field, education, the workforce and in everyday lives in the privacy of our homes. In this post, I am going to focus and go more in-depth about the effect of technology on today’s education system.

As a student who was born at the turn of the millennium, I have experienced first hand the changes in technology in the classroom. In elementary school, they taught us how to use an encyclopedia and emphasized how important they would be in my high school years. Little did they know that I would be able to obtain more recent information with the click of a single button.

That is a very obvious pro to technology but what happens when everything is transferred from paper to the web? Students from a young age are now taught that technology is everything and they are exposed to it as early as preschool. My senior year of high school was a whirlwind but the evergrowing addiction to technology my younger sister was falling victim to did not go unnoticed by me.

We have become so wrapped up in the excitement of new tech and trying to shove it down the future generations throats that we end up giving them more problems. My mother took her school-issued laptop and her teachers were struggling to come up with a lesson plan that could work for her without the laptop. We are talking basic algebra and they were shocked when we told them to just make her a worksheet or assign work from the textbook.

So overall, technology is just like everything else. It is good in moderation but we have to decide where the line is and what we are willing to risk when we use it.