Synthesis Essay On Technology

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In a generation with rapid technology growth, technology has various perspectives. Many believes that it has so many benefits whereas other believe its causing more damage to our youth. Even if technology gives children so much access to the everything and everything, the negative repercussions amount to more than the positive. Schools need to consider the negative impacts before throwing kids into an all technology environment, which entails the inability to develop life skills because of the ever changing development of technology, the lack of imagination and attention span within students. Schools need to recognize the life skills the students lack because of the huge involvement technology has in their lives. Due to this negative impact, students how are less cultured and aren't as intelligent as other generations were at their age, because of this, “Our skin free children are overwhelmed by information even without the internet” (Source E). Although students today have the opportunity to …show more content…

Esther Dyson strongly expresses that technology has become a huge social problem and that children live in an “environment that seems to stifle a child's imagination rather than stimulate it” (source C) this same theory is also conveyed in the cartoon commentary by Angel Boligan, which basically shows a child so invested in the television that they wouldn't turn their heads and see that the video is also happening right outside of their room (source F). Since we are enabling children all of this technology, the fast pace life and wide range of technology has caused many to stop trying, stop maintaining their level of focus and the small amount of patience they once had; so “when you get borde, click the mouse and you're somewhere else” (source

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