Technology Addiction in Teens
INTRODUCTION Many people warn of the possible harmful effects of using technology in the classroom. Will children lose their ability to relate to other human beings? Will they become dependent on technology to learn? All of them have given humanity unbounded access to information in which can be turned into knowledge. The impact of technology is given the vital role of technology in today’s world. This critical issue will examine the value of effective technology use in specific references. This criticism, especially strong for computer use by younger students, concerned about the effect that children are gaining so much of their knowledge from a virtual, rather than the real world. No doubts technology always have critics, but to responses to such critics is depending on one’s personal values and perspective of what is good and bad in education and for the children who are addicted to it. There are realities to some of criticism but the many of the points of objection are due to poor implementation of technology. The very concept of the internet would not be possible without technology. This is paralleled by the incredibly rapid growth of information that likely would not possible without this technology. Technology has been proved to accommodate learning styles and to be an effective motivator for students with specific learning needs. Furthermore, students working in collaborative team learning settings appear to function better when learning events are accompanied by technology use and much meaningful by using it in appropriately ways. The emergence of new technologies that impact on how we share information has revolutionized the way we do many things. Through new technologies, the world is now a much smaller place, with each of us linked to the rest of humanity at breakneck speed and thus provided with a lot of opportunities that were inconceivable prior to the arrival of these technologies. For us Filipinos, as it