Technology And Technology

The world has basically been taken over by technology. Its everywhere and easily accessible nowadays. There is an emerged advancement of the internet with its different platforms of communication. With all the technology available to use, a question is raised of whether it improves or destroys our minds.

This purpose of this paper is to explore the benefits and relevance of technology in the church. There are a lot of different opinions and thoughts on this matter. What we are looking into is to see if there is any real importance or need for combining the two and what the result would be. We will be digging into what attributes help to further the kingdom of God. In such areas as worship, the different tools and resources that technology has provided, and in a different way of evangelizing with the help of technology.

As technology continues to advance, it is evident that parents have started interacting with their children differently than before. Parents are starting to use technology as a crutch, which is unfortunate due to the evidence that the stimuli from these devices, have harmful effects. Nevertheless, one of the true setbacks lies in the diminishing bond between the digitally-engaged child and its parent. For example, when a guardian has the need to focus on a particular task or activity and does not want to be bothered by the child, they are likely to use a technological interface to essentially babysit in their absence.

Currently, technology plays a significant role in life. In today’s society, children are exposed to technology everywhere. Technology is in homes, offices and schools and is full of stimuli and requires paying attention to many different things at once (Dhruvin, 2017). Technology includes smart phones, television, laptops and tablets. Some parents have given their kids iPads or smartphones for entertainment at some point. Early childhood educators are trying to see if the use of technology in schools influences children's cognitive, physical and social skills in early childhood development.

How technology has affected the world and people has been a hot topic for discussion. With over 7 billion people in the world and 3.4 billion of those people online it’s a very sensitive subject, especially when 15% of those users saying it’s bad. Technology has connected people from all over the world. Technology is truly an amazing advancement in modern society. As a homeschooler, I was taught a lot through the internet and technology, although my parents made sure to keep a good balance between the real world and technology. Even as a child before instagram, tumblr, and youtube was a thing, my parents made a conscious decision to make sure we didn’t spend too much time online. As a child, my parents taught me to search myself so I could learn. They also made sure I didn’t sit in front of a computer more than 45 minutes. I was taught how to use email, but I was also taught to send letters to family and have a penpal. This balance of living a real life with technology is a major aspect leading to the many technology problems people face today.

Everyone has their opinions on what kind of role technology should play in students’ lives. Most people seem to agree that when used correctly, technology is a great tool that can be used for a wide range of constructive purposes including teaching, communicating, and organizing information. When used incorrectly, it can be a distraction in the learning environment, and a means of negatively impacting a person’s self-esteem or health. With the increasing relevance of computers in daily lives, educators must weigh the effects of technology on a student’s education and decide where it is necessary to include electronics in the classroom.

There is a problem. At work there are new ideas to pitch. At school there are endless projects and assignments that have to be finished quickly. Everyone wants these ideas to be original, one-of-a-kind, never seen before! Everywhere in life there are stressors that send adrenaline and cortisol hormones to your body that increase heart rate and sugars in the bloodstream. These hormones trigger neurons in your brain to release neurotransmitters that within a fraction of a second have reached all of the interconnected regions of the brain. All of the sensors in the brain receive the impulses, and the Executive Attention Network that brings attention, creative thinking, and concentration into the brain’s activity wraps everything together. There, a creative thought has been born (Underwood 2).

The effect of the creation of the internet on individuals is hard to quantify. While it has led to many positive changes for society, many would argue it has only complicated our lives, but the increased access to learning and cultural resources and information is difficult to ignore as a source of self-improvement. In the essay “Project Classroom Makeover” Cathy Davidson discusses how students born in the information age interact differently with learning because of their experiences on the internet. Thomas Lethem also posits that changes in our environment, like the creation of the internet, change the art that we create in his essay “The Ecstasy of Influence: A Plagiarism.” Even with these great resources, human nature does not always tend towards the self-improvement made possible by the internet and humans often self-organize to avoid it. In the essay “The Myth of the Ant Queen” Steven Johnson discusses how humans tend to group themselves up in ways that keep different types of people separate and aim to minimize personal growth and improvement. Fighting against this human tendency towards complacency, the internet has created incredible opportunity for individuals to improve themselves by learning and expanding their minds through access to global culture, free information, and instant social interaction without borders. Despite this, many people have ended up in internet communities where they do not see global culture, are given false information, and have interactions with only a very ideologically limited set of people. This can lead people to become more misinformed and hostile to ideas other than their own, so to fully take the opportunity granted by the internet, individuals must push themselves to not settle into any such narrowly defined community and to use the resources given to them. To understand why this self-motivation is so important, it is important to first understand how much opportunity the internet and technology provide.

A main problem with technology is the increase in bullying that comes with it. When kids are bullied at school or while at sports, they should be able to come home feeling safe and as if they have escaped their tormentors; however, almost every kid has a phone or some kind of device and social media that bullies are able to use to taunt the kids while they are at home as well. It is also easier to get more kids involved in bullying because people are more likely to say things online that they would not say in person. The increase in cyber-bullying has also led to an increase in teen suicides. These problems go back to the fact that it is so much easier for people to say things while they are comfortable sitting behind a screen. When kids do not have an escape, they never have a break from the constant bullying and hate and most likely will not tell an adult or parent about it. Kids, and even high schoolers, tend to keep to themselves when they are bullied because it is embarrassing to tell someone about and they are uncomfortable with the situation.

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In today’s society, technology is taking over. Every year when technology advances, it attracts people to upgrade and use the new technology. Technology will always be a part of the world because a mass amount of people depends on it. It is exceedingly easy to pull out a phone and search anything. Children have been the most affected by technology due to the fact that they revolve around it. Today, most children own their own tablet or phone. I believe technology has affected children in good and bad ways. Although technology allows children to use it for educational purposes, they can be exposed to real life video game violence, easy access to anything, and distraction from important things.

Technology overcoming the work force has always been discussed as a stern subject matter for people nowadays. For humans to say that technology has made some advancements in the past is a major understatement. Throughout the past few centuries technology has made advances to agriculture, education, medicine, and even more benefiting human consumption. All of this may seem beneficial, but now computers are being invented to imitate human functions, possibly replacing them all together. For example, some restaurants do not even have cash registers, since a computer can compute all similar functions. There are missing components that have initiated challenges for computer’s development, making it extremely difficult to proceed the process of replicating human functions to the full extent.

Technology, such as cell phones, ruins human interaction. As a teenage user of this expeditious technology, I have concluded that this consumable “must have” item of our time destroys the peaceful tradition of social contact. People today find it hard to talk to others in person. They fidget, avoid eye contact, and on some cases lack the want of any social attention. These accumulating flaws of our human interactions are the doing of our praised technology,  as many have proven through research. Previous generations did not have this problem. Our ostensibly innocent pieces of technology has molded ourselves into people who struggle  to have decent interactions amongst others. Our deceivable devices may seem like they are not doing any harm, but technology is indeed ruining simple human interactions with one another.

Technology is unavoidable in today’s society. It affects most parts of our lives, especially what we do with our free time. One affected area is reading. It is undeniable that the face of reading in this generation is continually being changed by technology. At times, the consensus seems to be that the change is negative, but this is not necessarily true, despite some worrying trends.

I’m sure we’ve all heard that we’re addicted to our screens, from someone or another. Whether it be our parents nagging us to spend more time outside, or our teachers telling us to lay off our phones and spend more time reading, we’re all used to hearing about how we spend too much time online. And we’re used to it; after all, technology’s just a part of our lives now. It makes everything easier, and the thought of even staying off the internet for even a day seems impossible.