MoSoSo -- The Cellular Revolution

As the globalized world expands, so do the possibilities of engaging in mutliple technological tasks at once (cell phone, PDA, ipods, etc). Many people, especially those who are in the under 25 year old age range, are the primary target for the technology businesses.

But not all technology comes with positive effects. For example, as a future English teacher and English Language Arts devotee, I believe that technology can do as much harm as it can good for my students and society outside of the classroom.

While students may be interested and highly able-minded to do many things at once in the new technology age, many of their tasks are not challenging their minds enough. Chatting, clicking...not rocket-science, let alone mildly difficult computation.

I want my students to be mutlitaskers, but I do not want them to be sucked into an oblivion where their world revolves around an unknown "cyber" world. The world is in front of them, and they need to learn how to deal with the problems that lay right in front of them: poverty, racism, etc.

Technology can be a wonderful tool if the students are carefully monitored and they have a goal in mind that allows them to grow intellectually and emotionally. Not as robots.