IS TECHNOLOGY A HELP OR HINDERANCE?

There are basically two opposing arguments for and against technology. One school of thought says that it actually helps students be more creative and intelligent (Hockly 2011). The other way of thinking says that it makes us less creative, intelligent, and empathetic (Hockly, 2011, p. 323). Personally, I have nothing but good things to say about technology. I do not see one downside. The arguments made against it are probably made from someone who has not tried to experience it in a way that would benefit them personally, in my opinion. For instance, the thought that technology is making us less creative is not true. I cannot tell you how many projects I have learned how to do on YouTube. Take for instance this video, ("Building Popsicle Mansion Time Lapse HD", 2019).

Now, I will tell you that my house turned out nothing like this, but I can't tell you how much fun I had trying. I have also learned many intellectual things from the Internet. Regent University has an entire electronic library of peer-reviewed articles for learning purposes ("University Library | Regent University", 2019). I also feel the empathy argument is not true. Look at anyone's Facebook page who has recently experienced a death or some other tragic event and there is much-expressed empathy. It just looks different today. So no, I don't agree that technology has weakened us as a society in some way. It has decidedly advanced us.

Building Popsicle Mansion Time Lapse HD. (2019). Retrieved 2 November 2019, from https://youtu.be/ept5lAWcmXU

Hockly, N. (2019). Retrieved 2 November 2019, from https://learn-us-east-1-prod-fleet01-xythos.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/5c2960be25208/1581488?response-content-disposition=inline%3B%20filename%2A%3DUTF-8%27%27The%2520Digital%2520Generation%252C%2520Hockly%252C%25202011.pdf&response-content-type=application%2Fpdf&X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Date=20191102T123303Z&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Expires=21600&X-Amz-Credential=AKIAIBGJ7RCS23L3LEJQ%2F20191102%2Fus-east-1%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Signature=5dd631a87512c003008707e2dec2a2dc017875b0a1fdb0c7c4d981c14947624a

University Library | Regent University. (2019). Retrieved 2 November 2019, from https://www.regent.edu/lib/