In today’s
readings of Digitized Lives: Culture, Power and Social Change in the
Internet Era by T.V. Reed he asks “are kids getting dumber as their phones
get smarter?” and in this chapter Reed is explaining how in today’s schools
technology is being incorporated in almost everyday teaching. For example computers
can now be found in almost every class room because they can be used as a great
teaching tool and can create teaching opportunities for their students. Also
not only do computers help with school work it can also help in freeing up a
little time for the teacher and he/she can have more face to face time with
their students.
With the
computer freeing up more time for the teacher that makes it so the students
would have to use a computer and learn at their own pace. With a computer with
internet access student can have access to almost all of the information that
can be found in a library. But is this making the younger generation dumber? I would
have to say a little because now the younger generation has to rely a lot on
their phones to find information instead of having to go to a library and look
for that info and memorize it. Instead the article they just found will always
be on the web and they can always just come back to it if they need it.
