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Students are continually becoming more technology savvy as time goes on reaching even children at the age 1. Children have learned how to work technological devices at an early age that our generation was not specialized in until middle school. For example, a dear friend of mines daughter ,at the age of one,totally impressed me recently when she was handed an iPhone. Not only could she press the buttons but she knew how to navigate her way from the home screen to the videos and delete those she did not want to keep and repeatedly choose the exact video she wanted to watch. It was truly breath taking to watch a one year old child navigate through a iPhone with exact precision. Which leads me to address how early children our introduces to technology in the classroom. In a recent news article, an anonymous writer wrote about technology being used in kindergarten and elementary classrooms in Memphis, Tennessee. The author explains that students now learn the basics of planets, vocabulary, and parts of speech through apps. Surprisingly, kindergarten classes "are using iPod apps to find missing letters in words and missing words in sentences" (CommercialAppeal). Technology is now being resorted to for teaching basics of knowledge to the next generation which will make them totally dependent on technology and its assistance in the classroom; because while now it is being regulated as the students grow up they will realize how technology can be used to do much more in the classroom and become dependent on its abilities.
Technology has already integrated its negative effects into classroom and convinced students that technology is taking no toll on their education. According to Maureen Ebben, Ph.D., "Many students mistakenly believe that technology allows them to do several things at once and do them well" (Bouchard). While the evidence continues to grow ,Sarah Schmitt, a senior English teacher, has noticed the effects saying, "students reading and writing skills have suffered significantly and their vocabularies are shrinking"(Bouchard). Technology is slowly but surely becoming the center of attention for all students. Shmitt's colleague went on to say that some students confined to him that "they sleep with phones on and wake up to answer text messages they get at night" (Bouchard). Her colleague Stephen Atwood said it best saying, "Technology will always be connected with students, so we have to teach them how to use technology appropriately" (Bouchard).
Technology has already integrated its negative effects into classroom and convinced students that technology is taking no toll on their education. According to Maureen Ebben, Ph.D., "Many students mistakenly believe that technology allows them to do several things at once and do them well" (Bouchard). While the evidence continues to grow ,Sarah Schmitt, a senior English teacher, has noticed the effects saying, "students reading and writing skills have suffered significantly and their vocabularies are shrinking"(Bouchard). Technology is slowly but surely becoming the center of attention for all students. Shmitt's colleague went on to say that some students confined to him that "they sleep with phones on and wake up to answer text messages they get at night" (Bouchard). Her colleague Stephen Atwood said it best saying, "Technology will always be connected with students, so we have to teach them how to use technology appropriately" (Bouchard).
