Driving Question: Is it sustainable that we continue on our current path of technological development?
technological improvements for the sake of improvement in and of itself is not a negative or incorrect path at all, it is improvements and innovations with the aim to make the more human side of teaching and educating obsolete that worries people, myself included.
a key problem for continual developments and integration of technology is increased distractions. For individuals, access to the internet allows the internet access to you and websites and product sellers use this information to garner your interest and lead you to distraction, "Big-name websites and apps strive to distract because that's the key to profitability" (A, Haupt, 2022), to fix an issue such as this is important to allow teachers as well as parents to build up proper discipline and expectations for the students so they may model themselves in such a way that these distractions are less invasive.
One of the huge benefits of the advanced technology is the ability to convey information in new and unique ways, weather it be group presentations in the form of slideshows or videos, or teachers creating interactive videos and games, technology has made the experience of getting an educational enjoyable and accessible for a vast majority of children and is something that many governing bodies are trying to expand so that every child may get to experience a fully schooling.
Reference: Haupt, A. 2022. 'Stolen Focus' warns against the profit-motivated distractions of technology. The Washington Post. https://www.proquest.com/docview/2621873807?pq-origsite=primo