Technology plays a major role in my life. It not only allows me to connect with friends and family throughout everyday life, but everyone else around the world as well. Without technology, I really do not know what anyone of us would do. We rely on our cellphones and computers within the workplace. Without them, work just doesn't get accomplished. Communication has gone to all sorts of new levels over the past 10 years. I honestly have no idea what people did without computers and their cellphones. I am extremely dependent on both of them. I use my phone I think 45 minutes of every hour. I am constantly on my computer typing essays, doing research, taking online quizzes and tests, and other things, such as checking my email, etc. I rely on my cell phone daily to communicate with family members, classmates, and teammates.
10 hours/day(on phone)
3 hours or less/day(tv)
5 hours/day(social media)
0 hours/day(video games)
11th grade(read book)
10th grade(play)
10th grade(museum)
12th grade(concert)
last Sunday(church)
no idea(civic engagement)
QUOTE #1: "For digital immigrants, people who are 40 years old who spent their college time in the library acquiring information, the Internet is really a miraculous source of knowledge,'' Bauerlein says. "Digital natives, however, go to the Internet not to store knowledge in their minds, but to retrieve material and pass it along. The Internet is just a delivery system.''
I find this statement to be relatively true. Parents today are practically clueless when it comes to the internet. They know how to do two things; check the news/weather and search on Google. And when they do search information, they will remember it forever. Kids my age however, use the internet and technology all day, every day. We use it to communicate with everyone we know. Some of us choose to learn from information on the internet, but others often get on the internet to look something up and pass the information to family or friends. Most of the time, this being information that they won't remember a week later.
QUOTE #2: "Social life is a powerful temptation," Bauerlein explains, "and most teenagers feel the pain of missing out."
Every teenager feels the need to be connected to everyone's business and social life. If they are not, they feel left out. Teenagers and young adults tend to use the internet and other forms of technology to connect themselves to other people, rather than learn information that is more important than who is dating or who is going to fight in the bathroom at school. It was just a couple days ago that my roommate asked me what the Ebola virus was. If you're reading this and you don't know what the Ebola virus is, I won't make fun of you, but you should probably look it up and learn about it before someone else makes fun of you. It is perfectly acceptable to use the internet and social media sights to connect with people, but try to learn some important things when using technology.
QUOTE #3: "For me, as for others, the Net is becoming a universal medium, the conduit for most of the information that flows through my eyes and ears and into my mind."
This is the most real statement I've heard in a long time. This literally sums everything up. I can't say I remember the last time I chose to read a book on my own and actually took information and learned from it. All research done today by kids my age is done on the internet. Sometimes, I often question what a library really is.
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