Technology: A Claw to the Souls of the Juvenile

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Another scenario is when the teacher is having the lecture but you constantly check for messages or browse your social media sites rather than listening especially when the topic is boring. In effect, you are not able to focus on the discussion and may not understand what is being talked about. This may sometimes lead to failure of answering a question being asked by the teacher during class discussions.

During group works and team presentations, most of the time allotted for accomplishing the task is eaten up by using the gadgets. Instead of starting to work on the project to make it presentable, students meet and sit around facing their gadgets. It will delay the progress of the assigned task and will result to cramming. Procrastination because of using gadgets is not advisable because it will make your productivity level low.

Lastly, while doing research for home works and assignments, students tend to copy and paste the entire text, put the source and present it to the teachers without reading the context. In this case they are simply repeating the information instead of learning the concepts and ideas. When students do this, they do not actually learn the material.

These are just some of the activities that may distract a student to perform well academically.

I will end my discussion with a statement from Albert Einstein, “I fear the day that technology will surpass our human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots.” In connection to academics, instead of people controlling technology time will come that technology will overpower human beings and take control of us so we better focus ourselves on education more than technology because according to Nelson Mandela, “Education is the most powerful weapon we can use to change.”

Socialization

Technology cuts every Opportunity

Garcia, Ronselle Regine A.

In facing the reality behind all those fantasy of a perfect world, there are many things to cope up and technology is one. When we hear the word ‘technology’ the thing that comes in our mind is that, it makes our life easier, a convenience. But technology is not perfect; and all of those imperfections has a consequence that we need to bear with it. We all agree that today, advancement of technology is inevitable due to fast developing world. But this does not only encompass the benefits, but it also mirrors out the negative ones that most of us are not looking into it.

Upon hearing ‘reality’, it parallels with the word actuality; an actuality of life to be exact. As time passes, a person faces the different stages of life that reflects them as a true human. But focusing on teenagers, Johnson claimed that teenagers are now isolated to real world. Isolated in a sense that there is a big wall separating the juvenile to where they should be. Instead of mingling with other youth, they rather sit and hold their phones. Instead of catching up with a long-lost friend, they rather scroll their tablets. Instead of taking the advantage of knowing what is behind the reality by themselves, they rather sit and search it in google anyway. Technology serves as a barrier for the youth to explore their capacities and this what makes them isolated to the world.

Second thing, learning new things through the use of technology is far way different in learning new things on hand, by interpersonal skills. With technology, the opportunity for the youth to experience and learn from themselves were taken off simply because technology teaches them to be lazy. Lazy in a sense where you can know things in just one tap away without effort exerting on it. Thus, technology dependency arises. This exemplifies negative impact because technology replaces brain functions. Human interaction is now very dependent in technology, because haven’t you notice that when people go to a restaurant, their eyes are stapled in the screen of their gadgets rather than interacting with the person in front of them.

Third, it hinders personal development because actual learning and experiencing things is better than learning through the use of technology. But why? You might say, in technology nahh it is just one tap away and that’s it. But is it really effective by just reading thousands of articles without applying it to real life? Thus, personal development was lessened because not all knowledge is provided by the technology. There will always be a point in one’s life specially for a curious teenager that he or she can learn lessons doubled in the value of lessons provided by the technology. When the technology dominates a person’s development, workforce will be affected in a sense that there will be a less number of human capital with a proportionate increase in technology devices.

Too much advancement is not good, specially without proper knowledge on how to cope up to it, on how you will maximize it. Socializing means to hang-out with other people, not to hang-out with gadgets. Socializing among teenagers is reduced resulting from the changes it affects in the teenagers, specifically change in social behavior. What a youth sees from his gadget makes him or her change that way he or she behaves. As a matter of fact, communications are greatly affected too. But based on our conducted researches, the relationship of the teenagers towards other people like their friends, parents and sibling is the most affected for one main reason: technology slowly cut down the strings that connecting both the teenagers and other people.

Socialization

Technology destroys the Quality of Human Interaction

Calangi, Ciara Nicole P.

Most of the people nowadays, especially teenagers are too attached to technology already to the point that, as soon as they wake up they reach for their smart phones to check email and respond to texts. The rest of the day, they're constantly on a tablet, mobile device, laptop or desktop for personal or professional use such as messaging, browsing, tweeting and sharing. The connected world's larger behavioural impact is more on how people interact with each other on a daily basis. A 2014 study—"The iPhone Effect: The Quality of In-Person Social Interactions in the Presence of Mobile Devices"—looked at the effects that phones have when people talk face-to-face. Observing 100 friendly couples having a 10-minute conversation while their phone was present, researchers noticed that the individuals still continued to fiddle with their phones. When those same couples conversed without