What is technology doing to and for us?

Sitting on the playground with a tablet avoiding a couple kids; playing with jump ropes, draw with chalk on the ground, playing hop scotch, teeter totter and swinging on the monkey bars. A seven-year-old boy is playing basketball on the tablet and when asked by his friend to come play basketball on the court. He reply’s “I don’t wanna, I’m playing on my tablet.” In schools, students are learning skills that they will need to carry them through life and to find jobs. Schools use technology more and more everyday to teach kids and relate to them. Kids are allowed to bring their own devices to class such as tablets, Ipads, and Mini Laptops and use applications that the teacher may require them to. Clearly, technology is becoming increasingly essential to learning. Students with basic academic skills improve with the use of everyday technology. With the speed of technology solving problems is becoming achievable at a faster pace. A good example of that is finding out about schools closing during bad weather. You can have an email sent to you, or even a text message sent to your mobile device, letting know if you have class. Performing school tasks as in writing research papers, finding out your grades for the semester, and submitting work is so much easier. For example flipping through pages to find a word in the dictionary while looking over it once or twice became easier. Now, you can type it in online and in seconds have more than just the definition they give you opposite words and similar ones, even use it in a sentence so you fully understand it. With the size of technology changing also has made it more portable and easier for children with small hands to grasp it. The way surgery can be performed now compared to years ago, the doctors would have to cut you open to perform a simple procedure such as a Tubal Ligation now they can just make a few simple incisions to perform the procedure with lasers, which will cut down on the risks of infections and cut down on healing time. The way we communicate as changed drastically. We used to write letters in order to speak to one another. Now, we use technology and they receive the message in seconds. Writing a letter in today’s society has so much significance to someone, making him or her feel special. By sending information faster through technology we are losing our basic soft skills such as speaking formally. With these high tech devices we are relying more on technology and less on our memory. Having the information at an easy access causes us to forget things like phone numbers, appointments, and even our way around our city. With technology and its up comings everyday it seems like it has become a crutch to society and without technology, completely, we will be lost. Many are used to abbreviating in order to send information; we frankly use the abbreviation in the wrong areas of life, such as work settings and academics. Sometimes even saying texting abbreviations out loud as in “L-O-L, or O-M-G”! Depending ontechnology everyday has turned something we just used when there was nothing to do, into a necessity and rising as a need in order to survive. Parents can go online to see what their child’s progress is in the classroom everyday. Overall I am for technology, as the world is changing we have to adapt in order to keep up with society. While technology is constantly revolving as each year goes by a child will never remember a world without technology.