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Is Technology Killing Our Friendship, By Lauren Tarshis

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Technology has opened many opportunities for students, but is it taking a toll on their education? Based on the two articles the “Avid Weekly: When it is and isn’t OK to be on your smartphone: the conclusive guide” by Caitlin Dewey and Is Technology Killing Our Friendship By Lauren Tarshis, technology can have a lasting effect that can either be positive or negative. Technology has let the world stay in touch with what’s happening around them, which has positively affected students and their surroundings. Causing disruptions though is something not to be happy about, because if technology advances in classrooms, students can easily be picked off into the wonders of technology. Although technology has helped students prosper, there are still …show more content…

The article Is Technology Killing Our Friendship states, “ ‘If we are constantly checking in with our virtual worlds, this leaves little time for our real world relationships,’ says Larry Rosen, a professor of psychology at California State University, Dominguez Hills. Often, even when kids are together, they are interacting with their phones instead of with each other.” This shows that students can avoid others easily when they have something in front of them. When students have a screen in front of them they tend to forget others near them or when they are called back in reality they purposely avoid conversations they don’t want to deal with. The Avid Weekly article “ When it is and isn’t Ok to be on your smartphone: the conclusive guide” states, “ Don’t: Use your phone as a shield to avoid people or conversations….Only 10 percent of adults say they’ve gone on their phones to avoid a conversation, and 16 percent because they’re bored of the group they’re with.” This shows that students can use technology as a shield to avoid someone they don’t want to interact with. Using a shield in the form of technology can affect others and their relationships with a specific person. This can especially be harmful to a student and their learning experience, because they won’t connect as much with the real world. However, technology can let students stay in touch with the world, instead …show more content…

As the AVID Weekly article states, “ Do: Send messages in front of family or friends, provided they are quick and/or important...Half of all people will get their phones if it’s important, though: 52 percent have pulled out their phone in a recent social situation to ‘catch up on tasks (they) need to accomplish.’” This indicates that when students stay connected, they can catch up on things they’ve missed. Staying connected can easily help others learn about the world around them and what they’ve missed out on. “These platforms help people stay connected like never before… ‘There’s definitely a positive impact. Kids can stay in constant contact, which means they can share more of their feelings with each other,’ says Katie Davis, co-author of The App Generation,” as stated in the article Is Technology Killing Our Friendship. This goes to show us that students can keep up with others when they need to. Keeping up with others can help students become more aware with their surroundings and what they do. Staying connected with technology can feed students the information they need to know about in order to have knowledge on their surrounding, but it won’t be for long when students start to browse

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