Looking back a few years ago, not everyone in college had brilliant hand-held technology like smartphones to surf the web, watch videos on Youtube, and check Facebook all day. Recently developed technology gives us so many benefits to improve the quality of our lives, and it is getting better and better by every minute.
However, some people were worried about the wrong way to use technology in the recent past. According to the study conducted among college students by Erin Gemmill and Michael Peterson which was published in NASPA Journal, 2006, Vol.43, no.2, 25% of 299 undergraduate students had problems in their education with disruptions from technology. Also, this study shows a slightly different trends in usage of technology int the recent past as it is rapidly changing.
These days, while walking around the campus, being in class, or eating breakfast in the dining hall, I see so many people with smartphones web surfing, talking with friends and many people with laptop outside doing research, checking social network sites, and chatting through instant messengers. With today's technology, we can do pretty much anything, anywhere, anytime. Yes, it is of course in today's point of view, and it will be much more tomorrow.
As a Georgia Tech student, it is a quite pleasant thing to see and live where new trend of technology abounds. These splendid devices absolutely make my life better and many others'. Even though some negatives have been found along with development of technology, I don't think those are problems of technology itself. The fundamental purpose of technology is to benefit people's quality of life, and it would never easily change. Our homework is to build a good foundation of how to utilize this tool in proper way. After the homework is finished, disruption from technology among college students will be gone, and it would feel like when I am finished with all my homeworks in Friday afternoon.
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