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Technological Impacts on Education
Introduction
In the present era of high-end epoch technology, school-going children and their
educators incorporate technology in teaching-learning activities. Students at home are seen
trying to complete their assignments given to them by their educators through internet searches.
Thanks to the development of highly efficient electronic devices and Wi-Fi connections in most
households, . tThe students can be able to beat deadlines and attract high scores in grading. The
teaching-learning activities ought to proceed, whether the learners properly use the available
technologies or not.
Nonetheless, the learning media has been significant in enhancing students' mastery of
content and high academic and professional achievements. On the other end, the rapid
developments of social media infrastructures and advancements in education systems have
presented numerous obstacles. The school-going children get deprived of enough sleeping hours,
feel isolated, and often result in bad body posture and neck pain. These negative impacts of
technology are undeniable. Therefore, the education managers, planners, policymakers, and other
stakeholders should limit electronic devices among learners such as laptops and smartphones to
ensure that the body's normal biological functions are not altered and ensure that technology
offers feasible teaching-learning opportunities activities.
Argumentations
The use of technology alters the standard sleeping patterns of the students. Many
students often may spend many hours watching mindless amusements and other funny videos,
Comment [PMW2]: The thesis and the argument that you are presenting are unclear. Are you arguing for or against technology? New ways of teaching? Are you arguing against online/distance learning? The thesis should clearly state a debatable topic and then state which side of the argument that your paper will be defending.
Comment [PMW3]: How so? This is unclear.
Comment [PMW4]: Is this the thesis? Electronics should be limited?
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losing focus on their academics. Excessive use of technology automatically deprives them of
their regular sleeping hours. Therefore, the students will be unable to concentrate during their
normal teaching-learning activities in their schools. When these habits are regularly engaged, the
effects on their academic scores become even worse. The production of melatonin gets altered
when the students overuse electronic devices at night. As a result, these learners get deprived of
good sleep during the nights (Barber & Cucalon, 2017).
Our minds often get distracted, where numerous notifications and messages are coming
into our devices. It may seem like simple conversation, but may result in fatal road accidents
when driving while having these gadgets in their hands. A significant number of students found
scrolling and texting with their peers while engaging in literature searches to handling their
assignments. They lose their academic focus, and this will translate to poor academic
performance in schools. Online learning has provided opportunities for cheating (students
recycle assignments), students' assignments may get lost, good handwriting gets extinct, and time
wastage. Wrong information available or shared online may misguide the student, huge
expenditure in procuring electronic devices and data subscriptions, and limits the teaching-
learning methods since learning modules are installed online.
The students' writing and academic competencies deteriorate when they rely on
technological tools in their learning course. The students' three uncontested skills that they are
more likely to lose are; arithmetic, writing, and reading skills. When students learn by typing on
computers, tablets, and smartphones this impairs their reading and handwriting. Notably, the
students acquire practical learning through magazines and printed books than Google books
Comment [PMW5]: Okay, here the argument is becoming clearer to me. This is a good paragraph. I think that the introduction should be shorter, and that the thesis/argument should be presented in a more direct way.
Comment [PMW6]: This changes the focus and to continue supporting the argument you should keep the focus on students.
Comment [PMW7]: Incomplete sentence.
Comment [PMW8]: This is unclear and worded in a confusing manner.
Comment [PMW9]: This is worded in a confusing manner.
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(Alhumaid, 2019). Technology makes learners' minds shallow, and students with substantial
memory and understanding are those who read from the linear texts.
Increased information has been taught in a considerably shorter time while students
actively interact with electronic devices rather than the teacher. It deprives the close relationship
between the educator and his/her students. Sometimes the students complete their education
programs without any physical interaction—these dehumanizing impacts of online learning tune
the students out of the natural world (Alhumaid, 2019). Education's technological implications
have dramatically hampered the educator's and students' rapport, challenging effective
communication between them.
Besides having students "wired" to electronic devices depriving the students and teachers
of social connections, they begin to use technological devices to gain security and safety. This
phenomenon was witnessed among 13 UK universities with approximately 1500 Masters'
students undertaking these programs online forums (Carter et al., 2019). Despite rigorous online
support offered by these universities by the host universities, the students gradually develop a
sense of loneliness since they can’t access other students physically. Such isolations have led to
dehumanizing effects whereby the student highly depend on technology for learning and tend to
neglect the human relations the educators presenting the teaching-learning activities online get
deprived of superior social skills. Isolation is more prevalent among children at their tender age
globally, who attend schools when machine learning gets highly developed. The overuse of
gadgets such as tablets, computers, and tablet lead to low academic scores and enhances the
students' isolation (Carter et al., 2019). From this review, loneliness and isolation are the
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repercussions of inappropriate use of technology among learners, and as a result, they often
forget about their classmates.
Conclusively, results indicate that school-going children are negatively affected by
technological use in teaching and learning activities. Impairment of students' handwriting,
deterioration of the uncontested skills, dehumanizing impacts of technology, loneliness and
isolation, poor academic scores, poor postures, and sleeping habits are primarily caused by the
misuse of technology among school-going children. The learners' and students' rapport should
be adequately developed for the whole development of the student. If the students are misusing
technology and deprive them of their fundamental skills such as good handwriting, reading, and
arithmetic skills, their prospective professional targets would significantly impede. Why, then,
the school managers, policymakers, and stakeholders resist regulating technology use among the
students and teachers?
Body paragraph 8- counterarguments and disproves
Whereas the misuse of technology among the learners, incorporating technology to
enhance teaching has been considered pervasive. Technological gadgets and social media
platforms are rapidly developing globally. Despite the negative impacts, technology in
education has offered enough opportunities to teach, and students learn and access a global
variety of knowledge (Chen et al., 2020). While the various governments and researchers
promote technology in learning, why don't the schools ensure that technological 'harm' gets
limited by advising them to devise interactive content for course enrichment? Technology has
been primarily responsible for provoking isolation and loneliness.
Comment [PMW10]: . This essay is very confusing and difficult to follow. Many of the sentences feel as if they were cut-and-pasted into the work and the wording is all over the place. There are many incomplete and confusing sentences, too. I am returning the essay to you for revisions to clarify the writing and the flow. If you need to, go back and revisit the lessons on Touchstone 5 or check out this link to help you to focus and clarify the essay: https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/general_writing/academi c_writing/essay_writing/argumentative_essays.html Please make the revisions and resubmit the essay for grading.
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YouTube and Facebook. However, research findings have indicated that the rapid development
of technology can help students when guided on how they can structure online activities that can
adequately enhance collaboration and communication. Better academic scores would be attained
by these learners when there is an appropriate use of technology.
Students' and educators' technological use in the teaching-learning activities should never
be abandoned because of deteriorating the student-teacher rapport. The students can complete
their assignments before deadlines by supplementing the online data searches with the lecture
notes. School educators should actively encourage their learners to interact with each other,
share and compare classroom projects and blog posts, and monitor how students interact with
each other globally. Learning with technology would be indispensable such that the learner and
the educator can effectively achieve class aims and objectives if adequately utilized by the
education key players.
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References
Alhumaid, K. (2019). Four Ways Technology Has Negatively Changed Education. Journal of
Educational and Social Research, 9(4), 10-10.
Barber, L. K., & Cucalon, M. S. (2017). Modifying the Sleep Treatment Education Program for
Students to include technology use (STEPS‐TECH): Intervention effects on objective and
subjective sleep outcomes. Stress and Health, 33(5), 684-690.
Carter, J., Appel, O., Salomoni, M., Vourgidis, I., & Chiclana, F. (2019). Supervision of
Postgraduate Independent Study in a Distance Learning Environment Transnational
Higher Education in Computing Courses (pp. 73-85): Springer.
Chen, J. C., Dobinson, T., & Kent, S. (2020). Students' Perspectives on the Impact of Blackboard
Collaborate on Open University Australia (OUA) Online Learning. Journal of Educators
Online, 17(1), n1.
Think about your writing
1. What have you learned about how to present a strong argument? How could/will you apply this knowledge in your professional or everyday life (3-4 sentences)?
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that only factual information is gathered. Helpful resources search as online search (Google
scholar, research articles, and e-books) are fundamental in ensuring that every argument
presented is supported effectively. I also learned that other than presenting argumentative
statements, it is also essential to discuss the counterarguments to make a comparative study of
technology's pros and cons in learning. Notably, the skills that I have learned will be applicable
in real-life situations characterized by heterogeneity in socio-cultural and economic values.
Various people have varied opinions and arguments in different contexts. Constructive
arguments devoid of bias and dishonest will ensure that every other person’s opinion is important
and deserve to be heard.
2. Consider the English Composition I course as a whole. What have you learned
about yourself as a writer (5-6 sentences)?
Composition writing is a skill that demands proper organization of thoughts. In writing
this argumentative essay, I learned that a lack of good thoughts could be an obstacle in academic
writing. Making significant revisions in sentence structures and checking the organization of
thoughts rigorously is fundamental in improving the write-up's quality and form. In this work, I
learned that writing effectively and efficiently is a challenging task that demands attention and
when the mind is in sobriety. Writing grammatically correct sentences is relatively easy, but
linking these sentences from the introductory part to the conclusion part is tricky. The
appropriate selection of the topic and the concluding remarks ensured that the work remained in
scope. After writing this work, I have learned that I am gradually becoming a good writer-with
the experience I have gained over time.
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