We live in a world where society continuously thrives, where new ideas are endlessly shaped, and where technology is constantly advancing. Depending on who you talk to, one person might say technology, due to its efficiency, is imperative, while another person might say it is destroying us, stripping away our true abilities. We rely on technology to entertain us, to speak for us, and even to think for us. So I ponder on the question, does the method of communication depends on individual circumstance? By examining both Paul Barnwell’s article, “My Students Don’t Know How to Have a Conversation” and Michael Scatturo’s article, “This Glove Could Help Deaf-Blind People Communicate With Anyone, Anywhere,” we can see how technology and its effects …show more content…
He uses Bieling as an example and explains how he was capable of sending a text message apologizing for his late arrival. Society constantly needs that connection to get through to others when there is a distance between two people. He states, “[h]e tapped this text message with his fingers, into an iPhone, that delivered that message to another iPhone” (Scaturro). We sometimes take for granted how much technology has aided us. We don’t think about how innovative or valuable these small devices we carry with us are, the same devices Barnwell thinks are ruining our capability of real life communication. Bieling has created a glove to help deaf-blind people have the same ability as others to communicate in an easy and quick manner. Bieling, unlike Barnwell, thinks technology can further enhance our abilities to communicate with one another. For example, deaf-blind people would still have the same communication skills if they communicated through the glove as if they communicated to someone in real life. That’s Bieling’s views on the subject at hand. However, what does Scaturro think about technology? He only writes about what Bieling thinks and we never hear what his thoughts …show more content…
We have become immune to relying on technology. However, I disagree with his approach at a solution. He believes the solution is for one parent to sit down with their child every night and try to have a discussion with them. This is a weak and an invalid solution to the problem. Most likely, students are not going to take time out of their day to sit with their parents for half an hour to learn how to communicate. We live in a society where time is precious, every minute counts. I also find his opinion to be a broad generalization. He generalizes his thoughts on all students. I agree with Bieling’s new technological invention in Scaturro’s text. This glove gives those who are impaired a voice through technology that they didn’t have before. Scaturro’s article gives readers a better look as to how technology can be really helpful to us
David Goldberg is known as the Director of the University of California Humanities Research Institute. Goldberg made this post to bring up one important issue going on in the United States. Goldberg talks about the issue that the United States is facing with lowered math and reading skills compared to other countries. Goldberg brings up that many people blame technology for the lowered math and reading skills. Not only does he disagree with this but he also brings up good points that help support his opinion. With every different point he brings up there is always a different type of rhetorical method that he uses.
I thought this article was incredibly strong and thought provoking, and the fact that it was written by a health care professional makes it even more powerful to me. Throughout her life, Dr. Remen was presumably taught how to help people by fixing them. But through her own personal insight and chronic illness, she is able to recognize the difference between the three words “help” “serve” “fix”. Prior to reading this article, I would have categorized the terms “help” and “sever’ in a very similar category, however, the term “fix” has always implied something different for me. The differentiation specially after having exposure to Deaf culture and the Deaf communities current and historical oppression dealing with the hearing culture’s common viewpoint that all d/Deaf individuals are disabled and need “fixed.” The second to last sentence of the article particularly struck me when she states, “All that fixing and helping left me wounded in some important and fundamental ways.” I feel that this sentence is one many d/Deaf people can relate to on a deep and personal
The Deaf community has dealt with and are currently dealing with many hardships in their lifetime. One of the struggles they are presently facing today is the term audism. Audism is one of the types of isms, where the hearing community believe that they are superior because they are able to hear. They portray this negative behavior towards the deaf community that it is a misfortune to be deaf. Their negative behavior expresses that those who are deaf must do their best to fit in with the “hearing world”. They forbid the use of sign language, forcing people who are deaf to learn how to speak and lip read. Although this stigma exists, the deaf community has successful striven in proving
Sherry Turkle’s article in The New York Times “The Flight From Conversation”, she disputes that we need to put down the technology and rehabilitate our ability to converse with other human beings because we are replacing deep relationships with actual people for casual encounters on technology. Turkle tries to convince young and middle age individuals who are so enthralled by the technology that they are losing the ability to communicate in a public setting. Sherry Turkle unsuccessfully persuades her audience to put down the technology and engage with others in public through her strong logos appeal that overpowers her weak logos and doesn’t reliably represent herself and her research.
Although advanced technology acts as a surrogate that helps people make better decisions and saves their time; it distracts them from the everyday reality of life. Individuals face large quantities of problems in their whole lives, but they always get help from others. By contrast, if people try to solve every problem by themselves, they will waste a lot of time. Gilbert illustrates the situation as, “One of the benefits of being a social and linguistic animal is that we can capitalize on the experience of others rather than trying to figure everything out for ourselves”(211). People get benefits from communicating with others, because they share their knowledge and experiences with others. As a result, when they meet problems, they can use others’ experiences to get solutions. By contrast, if people do not talk with others, they have to solve problems by themselves at the expense of wasting a lot of time. Most people never
We live in a time where technology is at the center of our society. We use technology on a daily basis, for the simplest tasks, or to aid us in our jobs, and don’t give a second thought to whether these tools are actually helping us. Writers such as Kevin Kelly and Clive Thompson argue that the use of technology actually helps us humans; whiles writers such as Nicholas Carr argue that technology affects people’s abilities to learn information negatively.
Counterargument: Using technology can be helpful for when kids cannot meet up with each other. In Ben Johnson’s article ‘Too Much Technology and Not Enough Learning?” he does point out “Of course, if geographically disparate groups of students need to collaborate, technology certainly can help, but even still it can never fully replace face-to-face interaction”.
Several assistive listening devices can improve the communication ability of deaf children. According to IDEA, every child with a disability is entitled to have access to assistive technology (California Department of Education, 2004). The California Department of Education (2004) outlines IDEA’s definition of an assistive technology device. It explains that this device consists of “any item, piece of equipment or product system…that is used to increase, maintain, or improve functional capabilities of a child with a disability” (California Department of Education, 2004, p. 1).
Ultimately, I am in agreement with what Albert Einstein supposedly predicted “I fear the day that technology will surpass our human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots.” Some historians dispute that the most brilliant brain of the 20th century ever really said that, but nonetheless, it appears that the prophecy is coming true. All we have to do is look around us, whether we are dining in a restaurant or sitting in a college classroom, we will see people glued to their smart phones or doing internet searches on their laptops. There does not really seem to be any meaningful social interaction amongst individuals. Along the same lines as Greenfield’s research paper is an article printed in Opposing Viewpoints Online Collection that presents views on both sides of the technology and education argument. Although this article presents opposing views on the topic, the critics suggest that the drawbacks of technology are the tools can be difficult to use and prohibitively expensive and it reduces or removes the human interaction that many believe is crucial to education (“Technology and Education.” par. 3). Basically, technology severs social
It is interesting to note that an article written in 2003 discussed text messaging as a young adult phenomenon. It addressed the difficulty of older fingers using tiny keyboards (Lacoheé 206). Things have changed. Text messaging is used by young and old alike today. Interestingly, other predictions in the article, which was written over ten years ago, still haven’t happened yet such as video tattoos and smart make-up and perfume (Lacoheé 209).What is clear is that we are living in a world that is ever-changing and with those changes come implications for how we behave as individuals and as a society. Does cell-phone enabled easy access to information on the internet hinder our quest for knowledge or enhance it? In our schools, does it make our students lazy or more efficient? Does our ability to bury ourselves in our phones enhance our communication with each other or isolate ourselves from each other? Whether we consider our “advances” in mobile technology as steps forward or steps back still remains to be
As what Paul Thomas says: “Teaching is a human experience. Technology is a distraction when we need literacy, normalcy, and critical thinking."
Technology interrupts kids’ ability to maintain a healthy lifestyle because it encourages kids to sit on the couch and watch television or navigate the Web all day. It will result to poor communication orally and written moreover the younger generation lack of socializing with other. “Technology isn't ex...
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Technology in education is a touchy subject in the United States. Many parents believe that technology will only hurt their child in future, while some believe that technology will help their child. Parents have to be open and must allow themselves, to see what is happening before they make their decision.
People in the present society have turned from the use of the old means of communication to the more advanced and technological ways of communicating. Technology has made it easier for people to communicate in a faster, efficient, and cost saving means through the introduction of the communication channels. The world has turned out to be the centre for technology with different technologies emerging daily as the people continue to develop from time to time to cope with the growing technology. The benefits of adopting the communication technology are explained in this article which shows why people do not function without technology.