http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7EJ5kQAypc
Don’t matter what benefits Offer
the technology for us, there has always been a major dilemma, many people say
that technology affects us in many ways and others defend it.
In the video "Teens and
Tech" the speaker talks about how technology is affecting children and
families in general.
First, the speaker raises a
personal definition of what is technology, and he says that technology is an
extension of our humanity and our way of being, it's a way of putting ideas
together, it's a system of thinking, Technology is not only about cellphones or
media, it’s also the clothes, the pen, the money, the light, is almost
everything around us, therefore cannot be separated from it, for example, the
car wheels are an extension of our legs, the computer keyboard is an
extension of our fingers, the internet or electricity are extensions of our
nervous system, the computer is an extension our memory and the way we think,
the glasses are an extension of our eyes, clothes are extensions of our skin
also.
When we identify a problem with
the technology the answer is not to throw it away, we have to do a reflection
of what we do with that technology, and identify where the problem may have
started.
Many psychologists and
researchers say that technologies including our computers, cell phones, devices
of the internet are destructing our development, disintegrating our
relationships, distracting our mental skills and abilities, and they are
depriving us of feelings. For example, many children do many things at the same
time as listening to music, do homework, chat with friends and answer phone
calls at the same time, this doesn’t allow them to concentrate or develop a
high level of critical thinking,
Regarding to the video I want to
tell some things that are really happening in my home, I used to chat almost
all the time with my friends since I was a child and play videogames, and I
spent too many hours involved into video games and virtual worlds that nowadays
I don't know how to have a conversation with my parents nor my brothers, it's
even harder with my brothers because they do the same, my sisters spend her
free time in front of the pc and my brother doesn't separate from his laptop
neither for having lunch, it's not necessary for none of us to eat in the
dinner room and have a normal conversation.
