Hello Everyone,
My name is Millie, and I am an English Lit Major with a Minor in Political Science, also working towards my Paralegal Associates. English has always been my favorite subject. I think this is thanks to all my kind and supportive teachers I've had from K-12, who introduced me to the world of literature.As someone who has seen children in my family grow up, I've also seen technology grow with them. I've seen a baby learn to scroll before they learned to talk, which was kind of impressive but kind of scary. While I do believe good can come from technology, the exposure from the time it takes for a brain to fully develop may have irreversible effects. While I think media technology can be utilized to keep up with students who have grown up with it and have experience with it, it should be limited. I think it is vital to provide education on media technology and media literacy; many parents do not fully understand technology, which may leave children vulnerable to unsupervised screentime. That being said, though it is a parent's responsibility, using technology safely should be taught in schools, and children should be taught to know right from wrong to avoid trauma and harm, but even then, what to do if something did go wrong in the world of tech. In the context of incorporating it into education, I think it should be limited to situations where the connection with a teacher is not lost, and the classroom is interactive rather than just sitting them in front of a computer doing individual work.
Hi there Millie,
ReplyDeleteIm Diana and it is so nice to meet you! What first caught my attention was your interest in major, minors, and associates. I find it interesting because I have not heard of anyone with that combination of subjects at the same time. I hope to hear more about how you were influenced to all of them!
As I read through your blog, you first mention how babies are able to know scroll before they can speak and I have witnessed this as well. We are not in a vast world of technology that it is really surprising to me at how humanity revolves around it. Growing up and going to school I have seen the transition from only pen and paper to computer usage only. Although, I will admit technology does make academic work much easier, it would be nice to return to pen and paper sometimes.
Fast forward to my college academic career and the experiences I have had with media technology, I think and agree with you that media technology should be limited. It should be limited because not only can this be manipulated to a point where students are not providing actual thoughts but perhaps forget how to actually write and absorb education. Now in days with AI, anything and everything is possible to create and somethings pass as “humanized” work. Thus creating false work and not having actual people learn and preform what was supposedly learned.