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How does technology change our way of thinking?
1. Technology Impedes Our Focus. If you’ve ever tried to have a conversation with your spouse while they’re watching something on TV, you realize just how much technology impedes our ability to focus on other things. It’s as if nothing outside of the technologies we channel our focus into exist.
Do you think technology has decreased or increased our communication with each other?
Technology has influenced the world in many positive ways. Unfortunately, research shows that mobile technology is affecting communication in a negative way when it comes to sociability and face-to-face communication. Researchers have found that mobile technology can decrease communication and intimacy.
How online technologies changing the way we live?
Technology has simplified our lives in several ways including providing on-the-go services, easy access to information, internet of things, improved entertainment services, advanced communication tools and has always encouraged creativity, talent and innovations enhancing productivity and efficiency.
Is technology shaping the way we think?
Many think so, including psychology professionals. As Psychology Today says, “There is … little doubt that all of the new technologies, led by the Internet and digital technology, are shaping the way we think in ways obvious and subtle, deliberate and unintentional, and advantageous and detrimental.”*
How has technology changed our lives in the past?
In the last few decades, technology has progressed at a staggering rate. Smartphones, the internet, cloud computing, and hundreds of other inventions are changing every facet of our lives. Communication, business, government, travel, fundraising, and even agriculture have been affected.
How does technology influence children’s thinking?
Over the next several weeks, I’m going to focus on the areas in which the latest thinking and research has shown technology to have the greatest influence on how children think: attention, information overload, decision making, and memory /learning.
How has technology changed the way we think about content?
Live television recording technologies like TiVo and DVR give us the opportunity to pour over video frames and better analyze and think about content. Another new literacy we have access to is data. Health trackers like the FitBit give users the ability to identify trends that were invisible before these tools were available.