Digital Nation

When watching the film digital nation they introduced us to four main themes that technology affected. These were home & social life, work, school, and military. The theme that stuck out to me the most was the way that technology use affects student in school. In the film we saw many examples of how technology affects children and even college students. For example, they showed an underprivileged middle school was on the verge of getting shut down due to low attendance and scores on state tests. It showed that in the film when the children were giving the opportunity to receive laptops and both of these things improved tremendously for the children. Another example showed in the film of how technology affected students were the students the attended MIT college. These students were using laptops also at school, but the technology use affected them negatively. The students were incapable of paying attention enough in the classroom and also ended up being horrible at multitasking. This was an example of how technology affects students negatively.

When looking at the pros and cons of technology use in schools I find several interesting facts. For example, " After George middle school in Portland, Oregon introduced a social media program to engage students, their grades went up 50%, absenteeism went down 33% and 20% completed extra credit". This fact came from Oregoned.org, which is a site dedicated to education. This site includes articles, experiments, and also advice for those involved with education in some sort. A con that I found from the pro con website was "31% of students say that using social media during homework reduces the quality of their work". This fact came from Commonsensemedia.org, which is also another credible source that. This site gives advice to parents on how to control their kids digital well-being. Both sites give advice, information on recent articles, and also movie rating that are appropriate or not for children. I find these sources both credible based on the fact they are often stating helpful advice not quantitative facts or evidence.