People today are dependent on all forms of technology for daily functioning. The majority of our society has adopted computer technology as part of daily life. These technologies include cell phones, information booths, digital televisions, and computers to name a few. The increase rate of technologies and online learning has created a wealth of learning opportunities for educational institutions and businesses. In addition, technologies also help detect possible problems and gives options to how people communicate. As we age, people tend to believe the saying “you can’t teach an old dog new tricks” (Sayago, Forbes, & Blat, 2013). I have seen many examples proving it to be somewhat accurate. Some of the older adults in my family and at work …show more content…
When the younger generation attempts to correct them or teach the older generation new skills, they often interpret the gesture as offensive and a sign of disrespect. In today’s generation, more and more families own and has access to computers and internet. However, access to technology does not mean an individual is capable of using it. My attempt to teach the eldest family member and older adult clients in the community gave me the impression that they feel they are too old to learn, afraid they will break the computer and feeling they don’t want to burden your time. In addition, many older adults have anxiety, resistance and poor attitudes about computers, which can make even the best basic computer instruction useless. Furthermore, when one of the older adults in my family needs to do a task using a computer or wanting information, they usually wait days until one of the younger generation can assist them with the task. In my opinion, if they have the drive, confidence and willingness to learn how to use the computer they can be independent and use their time effectively instead of waiting until someone is available to help them. It will we get older, we can accomplish many goals and for some live a complete and fulfilled life. Therefore, learning updated technology is not essential and a priority as we …show more content…
Furthermore, the benefits of learning how to use the computer can build self-confidence, organize different activities for older adults, and also boost their self-esteem and improve their quality of life. Internet use showed significant improvement in psychological aspects such as depression, loneliness, loss of control and can influence the social life of elderly people. (Crabb et al., 2012). Older people with mobility problems or older people that live significant distances from their family members, the computer based communication such as e-mail or instant messaging, can provide needed social support from these family members. For example (from my personal experience), my mother lives in the Philippines and the only way we can communicate without financial burden is through skype and
Ever since I have been in college my telephone has been shorting out every time I try to have a conversation with someone on it. It has been so aggravating! Especially when I am trying to talk and the person on the other line keeps saying, what, what...What did you say? It drives me crazy! Well when I got to college I was advised, and later informed, that it was a requirement to know how to use the Internet. So I signed up for an E-mail account. In high school I never used the computer for anything but assignments, but now I constantly find myself on line. I am either E-mailing friends far away, or talking to my family on IM (Instant Message). The Net has been most helpful to me when it comes to contacting others, especially since my phone doesnt work. Most importantly, I feel that the Net has brought my family and I closer together. After I read Finding Ones Own in Cyberspace, by Amy Bruckman, an essay explaining that to enjoy the Net we need to find our own place, our own community, so I realized that my community on the Net is E-mail, enabling me to talk to the people closest to me. The movie You've Got Mail starring, Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan, exemplifies how two people become closer through E-mail. Making it easier for people to connect in ways they always could, but never new how. Both the movie, Youve Got Mail, and Bruckmans Finding Ones Own in Cyberspace explore how the Net brings out a side of us that cannot be seen by the human eye. You've Got Mail is a love story about a man and woman who meet on the Internet and use e-mail to talk to each other. Although they havent met face to face they know so much about each other that if they were to meet, it wouldnt matter what the other person looked like. Hankss character owns a very popular bookstore that in turn makes Ryans tiny family bookstore go out of business. Therefore, Ryan hates Hanks throughout the whole movie. Everyday they seem to run into each other not knowing that the person(s) behind their faces are their soul mates. Little do they know the person they see everyday and the person that they despise is the same person they talk to every night when using E-mail or their I.
In the21st century, Amazing changes in communication has affected interpersonal relationships. Some prefer to use technology like Facebook, Line, and Wechat to communicate with their friends rather than talking in person. Communicating with technology will make them alienated. Interpersonal relationships are also important by personal talking, which may lead to improve relationships. In her essay, “Connectivity and Its Discontents”, Sherry Turkle believes technology weakens interpersonal relationship among friends, and relatives. In “Mother Tongue”, Amy Tan claims talking with her mother and husband in a personal way can improves their relationship. Using technology to communicate will alienate and widen the distance between friends; talking
“Today we have something that works in the same way, but for everyday people: the Internet, which encourages public thinking and resolves multiples on a much larger scale and at a pace more dementedly rapid. It is now the world’s most powerful engine for putting heads together” (“Smarter Than you think: How Technology is Changing our Minds for the Better,” The Penguin Press). The Internet has assisted the under thirty generation in working together and gaining understanding of how the world works in a faster way. The under thirty generation is more racially and ethnically diverse than the previous generations. They have access to more technology and when they use that information they can become smarter than previous generations. The under
113 Older Adults participated in focus groups where they discussed their use of and attitudes about technology in their home, work, and health care environments. The older adult’s reported significantly more positive attitudes than negative attitudes. Positive attitude were defined as “likes” and negative attitudes were defined as “dislikes”. Positive attitudes were due to how well technology “supported activities, enhanced convenience, and contained useful features.” Negative attitudes were due to what degree the technology “created inconveniences, unhelpful features, and security and reliability concerns.” The results support three notions. First, older adults view the benefits of technology are greater than the costs. Second, they do not support older adult stereotypes relating to their inability to use and fear of technology. Third, in models of technology acceptance, they outline the vital roles of “use and ease of use”. The “digital divide” is the contrast between those who accept new technology and those who do not. According to the article, any product or service that is digital or electronic is known as technology. In order to predict the usage of technology we must understand the factors that affect the acceptance of technology in older adults. Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) defined
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.
Most people acknowledge that the advancement of technology has negatively impacted our social interactions because it detaches us from what is happening around us, obstructs communication, and spreads the concept of hurting teens learning ability must be able to utilize technology while not allowing it to effect social interactions, particularly for those who are easily influenced during our young years. Our world must learn to embrace technology without allowing it to negatively impact the creation of functional adults in society.
Technology is a controversial issue in today’s world and especially in my world; it is important to understand that my father owns and operates a successful computer sales and repair business and so my knowledge of computer usage is quite extensive having not only listened to my father, but also having completed a high school computer internship. I am also currently working in a Technology Fellowship program. When it comes to the topic of technology, most of us will agree that technology surrounds us in today’s world—from television, smart phones, video games, tablets, to computers—we can readily access multitudes of information by simply accessing a computer internet search or turning on the television news. Technology has been a part of our
Technology is an important issue that my generation will face in the coming years if it is used inappropriately. Albert Einstein states his input on how technology will be an issue: “I fear the day that technology will surpass our human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots”. Many people say that technology will affect people’s ability to think properly and claims that we will have a generation of people who are ignorant compared to earlier generations. Technology has shaped how people live their lives on a regular basis and it defines my generation as the technology generation. Technology has changed how we do things in our daily lives and has become a large part of our daily lives and has impacted each
New technologies can be highly influential to the young generation today, but we, the older generation, can be responsible adults and guide these kids so that they will make use of these technologies to their advances and improve themselves, and not otherwise.
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Some may argue that technology helps us not feel lonely because technology is the way to escape reality for a bit and the internet can reconnect with our friends and family from around the world. We can save time by “shopping” online and communicate quickly by “email than postal mail” (Franzen 428). We can also communicate via webcam, especially for college students away from their family. It’s a way to reconnect with our love ones and stay in contact with our friends. We want to be “able to share our lives with others” and technology “allows us to do that with music, videos, pictures, and texts” (Arnett 477-479).
Nowadays people use technology from everything from business to education to entertainment and much more. Almost everything we do and every aspect of our lives is affected by modern technology. With all the advantages of technology it is not surprising that we rely on it for almost everything in our daily lives, but how much is too much? People’s over-use computers and other modern technology is causing vital skills to be lost as technology replaces traditional ways of doing things. We are losing communication skills, memorization skills, and ……..?????????. And with the loss of these skills, what happens when technology fails?
To concern some of the elderly who do not willing to learn from the outside courses, the children are also a good teacher. From the data of Census and Statistics Department (2013) the age group of 10 to 14 nearly 100% are having the knowledge of using computer. (See appendix 4) What is more, the Nobilis (n.d.) claimed let children teach their grandparents can undoubtedly enhance their relationship and interaction. For the children it can also benefit them to improve their patience.
There is a need for more computers in everyday life, in homes, schools and on the job. The advancement of computer technology today in all facets of the world, and life are growing to the point that everyone will need a computer to carry out their everyday life. Computer technology today is at the threshold of making life easier for everyone in the world.
In the year 1977 computers went on sale for the national public. Today in the year 2004 computers with connection to the internet are an essential item to have in the household. Accountants and typists are no longer the only ones buying computers. Age does not matter. Everyone needs a computer in the household. Computers help all kinds of people. Meeting different people’s needs, therefore computers are a useful tool for all age groups. Children, teenagers, adults, and senior citizens all can use the same computer, but they all use the computer for a different purpose.