In the article “8 Ways Technology Makes You Stupid”, by Rebecca Hiscott, from the Huffington post it talks about all the consequences of technology. However after reading the article I realized one thing; it’s not the technology which makes a person stupid, it’s the person who allows the technology to make them stupid.
For the most part when things are published on the internet, they don’t get taken down. The first point talks about how the blue light decreases the production of melatonin (Hiscott 1). Which is completely true...at the time it was published in 2014. Being 2017 now, in the 3 years that have passed, technology has advanced and there’s a night mode which turns the screen a warmer hue to minimize the effects of production of melatonin. People of this day and age need to realize that information they have access to can be out of date. Using false data with skewed information will, in the long run, just make you stupid. Seeing a fact written in a convincing way can cause problems. It seems like it would be legit but like everything you see on the internet, you need to analyze the information first to see if it makes sense. A topic mentioned in the article is about how people are always relying on a GPS which results in less activity in the hippocampus (1). It’s hard to compare the people of today with the people of the past especially since the world has changed immensely since just 2000. There have been hundreds and hundreds of roads and buildings that didn’t exist just a couple years ago so people rely on a GPS. I would expect our brains to be different because the world is a very different place than just a couple years ago. It’s like comparing apples and oranges. There are similarities, but there’s also differences. The internet has a lot of information that people need to assess to see if it’s true. If you don’t assess it at all, than that’s when you will become stupid. Finally, it talks about how technology poses as a distraction, especially to students. In this article, it states 87% of teachers agree that technology is a distraction (1). But have those teachers tried to prevent that? In my experience as a student, a lot of teachers don’t have a consequence when a student goes on their phone. It’s a ‘put it away’ or ‘focus on your work’. Never a ‘put your phone at the front of the class’, or a detention. I have a hard time believing this fact since majority of them are doing nothing to prevent it. The part that’s powerful about this point in the article is the fact to back it up. A fact makes it seem like it has been proven and is true. But you need to just use your brain and your previous knowledge to determine whether or not the information is good or bad. Just assuming everything is good is what’s going to make you stupid. However, what about how teachers that are integrating technology for the good? A lot of teachers are giving students access to the technology. This technology helps students expand their learning. Learn from different people. Learn about topics that aren’t covered in school. It allows them to simply learn more. Overall, the quote that stuck with me throughout this article is “technology makes you stupid” (1). Technology doesn’t directly make a person stupid. When the reader allows himself to believe anything and everything they see they will start to retain false information. They will no longer be teaching themselves about the world, a topic or a certain issue. They are just teaching themselves useless things and in no way are benefiting themselves. It’s just ironic that in an article about technology making people stupid, there’s many examples of proof as to how technology makes one unintelligent. Works Cited “Benefits of Technology in the Classroom.” TeachHUB, www.teachhub.com/benefits-technology- classroom. Chamary, JV. “Apple IOS 9.3 'Night Shift' Mode Might Improve Your Health.” Forbes, Forbes Magazine, 23 Mar. 2016, www.forbes.com/sites/jvchamary/2016/01/15/apple-ios-night- shift/#480ae87e264e. Hiscott, Rebecca. “8 Ways Technology Makes You Stupid.” HuffPost Canada, HuffPost, 29 July 2014, www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/technology-intelligence_n_5617181.
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