- "Not only can I put words together at 10 times to speed of using pen and paper, but I can transfer those words to the digital realm, where they are can edited, spell-checked..."
Granted the increased speed of being able to do our work is an amazing thing, I do not think it's good that people constantly use spell check or editing to fix their work for them. By allowing the computer to fix all of the mistakes for us, what are we learning?
- ...."the total number of hours spent in front of a screen has not increased over the past 10 years."
Even if that is so, most of this article discusses how students are mostly online to go on MySpace, Facebook, to talk to their friends, etc. So even if the time people are spending in front of a screen has not increased, who says it is being used for educational purposes?
- "Today 82% of kids are online by the seventh grade...what they love about the computer is that it offers radio/cd, games, movies, e-mail, IM..."
All of my cousins are online. When I am over their houses, they are listening to the radio while talking to their friends and emailing someone. If the purpse of this article was to convince me that most people are online to learn something or do school work, I am not convinced at all. I totally see the difference of when people use their laptops at home and when they use them in school. More often when they are used at home, they are used for "play time".
- Yes the internet is conveinent, simple, fast. But why does everyone have to be available and in touch with each other 24/7? There are so many times when I shut off my cell phone and turn off the computer because my brain is literally tired of all that comes along with these devices.
- What truly happened to quaility family time? Over the break my mother, father and I were in the living room and the three of us were on our laptops at the same time. Realizing how disgusting the image was, we all shut our computers off and discussed what we were reading lately, what was going on with the War, who we were going to vote for, for the next election. Families are being torn apart because of a keyboard and a screen and I do not see any benefits with that situation at all.
Kris
1 comment:
I completely agree that our families are being drawn apart from each other. I know for a fact that in my family we may be in the same house for the first time all month yet we will all be in different rooms on computers. Its crazy. Also, you mentioned how that the amount of time in the past 10 years spent on the computer hasn't increased which I can believe. But I also agree that much of the time is spent on useless things like myspace and not spent on educational purposes like it us to be. Good blog! It really got my interested in how the people are using the internet differnently than how they use to use it.
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