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Technology And Technology : The Use Of Technology

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"The Kaiser Family Foundation last year found that school-age kids spend an average of 7 1/2 hours a day in front of a television, a smartphone, or another digital device"(Rosen).
Technology is an advanced program on a computer or even a cell phone that can do anything from discovering what you want. However, children remain the most human beings that use technology. Since they have been given a cell phone or a tablet at a very young age, their mind is used to the technology moving their fingers yet when parents give a child technology devices they don't know how enormous they are hurting the child's education. Since children have become more dependent on technology they have become careless in doing their own work, having less communication with others, loss of attention in class, and easier for them to cheat on their online assignments.
Children depend on their technology too much that they lose their focus in class. In fact, Matt Richtel stated, "the more I stand in front of class, the easier it is to lose them." And many of the teachers agree as they believe the students block them. As children today, just want to be in front of an electronic device 24/7. Because children are too attached to their devices, the children lose focus on the subject the teacher is teaching them. Children "spent 20 percent of their classroom time using digital devices for activities unrelated to class" as the professor Leslie Reed from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln stated. Over the years

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