Influence Of Technology On Today's Education

The Influences on a Youth’s Education Before today’s society had smart phones, computers, television, etc. children learned through reading books, and listening to those around them. However, with today’s technology, children are learning imperfect lesson by what they see on TV or on social media. Modern technology can also affect a child’s education by distracting them. In Russell Baker’s essay “School vs Education” he explains on how today 's youth are getting their education mostly by what they are watching and from the people in their environment. Education from outside the formal classroom can be obtained and has its advantages as Frederick Douglass says in his essay “How I Learned to Read and Write”. He writes about the struggles he

By influencing them to stay indoors more, not doing homework. Also by watching violent shows, it may influence the child to act aggressively towards others.In his essay “School vs Education,” Russell Baker expains how some children are picking up certain types of information from watching television shows that are probably too mature for them to be watching at a young age. “From television, the child will have learned how to pick a lock, commit a fairly elaborate bank hold up, prevent wetness all day long, get laundry twice as white, and kill people with sophisticated armament” (225). Growing up, I watched all the television that I wanted. However, I never really watched that many “educational” shows, I usually watched shows that talked about mature subjects that a five or six year old shouldn’t be watching. Some of the shows that I had consisted of shows like Criminal Minds, CSI, Degrassi, and more.With watching shows like Criminal Minds, and CSI, I learned how to get away with murder by getting rid of the evidence, disposing a body accordingly, and playing mind games with those that are after me. Despite the important topics that Degrassi touches on, such as teen pregnancy, drugs and alcohol abuse, etc., they are still mature topics that a child is too immature to understand

However, some of our past generations weren’t able to receive an education, due to being in a poor income family, or during pre civil war time, were the slaves weren’t able to have any education.This was the case for Frederick Douglass, He wrote about his journey of how was able to learn how to read and write in his essay How I Learned to Read and Write. Douglass wrote about how he was a slave child pre civil war time, and how the wife of his master been secretly instructed him how to read and write. That until his master found out, and put an end to it. Back then slave owners though if their slaves had an education, than they would be able to think for themselves and be an educated human being. However, Douglass didn’t let his master stop him from learning how to read and write, he continued his education by observing those around him, and by sneaking in the room of his owner’s son, and using the son’s old copy-books. “During this time, my copy-book was the board fence, brick wall, and pavement; my pen and ink was a lump of chalk” (275). Growing up, my mother grow up in the country of Guatemala, She had grown up not having many materials to have an education, but she had never let that hold her back. My mother had worked hard with the little things she had around her, and was able to graduate high school and move to