According to Nicholas Carr ‘our deepening dependence on networking
technology is indeed changing not only the way we think, but also the structure
of our brains’ (Naughton, J., The Observer, 2010)
This argument is
debatable and in fact is debated in various literature articles which in
general seem to agree that used properly, technology has many advantages
Having grown up without a computer, without a coloured
TV (in fact my black and white TV only had once channel that was showing hymns
for our communist leader) and having not seen a mobile phone until the age of
18 years old, I would say that technology has changed the way we learn, the way
we develop, how we live. Working in Schools I can see how different learning is now compared to how it was when I grew up. In the contemporary society learning through play involves the use of an X box, tablet, Ipad, Kindle and various other gadgets. Learning seems to happen faster everyday and the use of Internet and technology has given people to learn anything , at any time in the comfort of their own privacy without worrying they cannot get to the Library to borrow a book. Technology has not only changed the way we learn but it has also changed the way we demonstrate our learning.
Not so long back if anybody would have told me my assignment would be an electronic journal, a blogg even...I wouldn't have even known what they meant. But technology is quick, it's clever and it never stops surprising me.
