Literacy Narrative 1st Draft 600 words

Technology. It is the fastest growing application in today's modern world. It has made mankind able to do some amazing things however it has also led our society into a world of smart phones and computers that have made our youth more and more socially awkward. Nobody even knows how to hold a conversation in person anymore. Everyone is constantly on their phone distracted by something else. Although this technology seems like a good thing in the sense that people are now able to socially interact with people from around the globe, it is also hurting us. My focus of this impact will be on the educational aspect of technology. We rely way too heavily on technology that it is even translating to that way in the classroom. In high school especially, teachers try to get out of explaining things better to students by telling them to 'look it up online'. Simply looking something up online, sure, could be helpful to some degree, but wouldn't that eventually make teaching in person obsolete? If this is the case, the upcoming generations will be the laziest we've ever seen, leading to obesity, not listening to authority and never needing to leave their bedroom. It is scary to see that our world as we know it could be leading to this. If this problem is ever going to get fixed, we need to go to the source of the problem, and that is the classrooms today. These problems stem from the poor teaching styles and failure of teachers to help students in their time of need. Students, in order to fully understand material, need reinforcement on what they learned in class. However, if they didn't learn it in class it is extremely difficult for them to reinforce this material. This leads to them having to self-learn from reading and watching videos online. This is no way to learn, especially if they are going to spend all day in class anyway, they should be getting something out of going to school. Teachers nowadays also rely heavily on technology, telling students to go home and check the homework instead of simply telling them in class. This technology is not only making students lazy, but the teachers as well because they don't want to do their job. I know this from self- experience, as way too many times during high school I found that the teacher was awful at teaching and instead told us to go online to find lectures on the topic. I would have to listen to another teacher online as compared to my teacher in person. I was constantly led to question ‘isn’t that what they get paid for though? To teach us?’. Teaching in this country has to change and or technology will take over. Although it is enhancing the learning environment for many particularly in college, high school students are exposed to an environment where everything is done for them. Looking up answers online isn’t learning and it is why we are so lazy. Why do we need teachers if there are videos of teachers teaching the material better than the ones in class, online for free? And why is college so expensive if many times people can be self-taught? There are many questions that need to be answered about the educational system in todays society and unless changes are made there could be consequences later on. Education is just one example of how smart technology is actually making people dumber. It is leading our society right into the ground and if we don't stop it now, our kids will start off at rock bottom. 
On the other hand, during my literacy journey technology played a major role in enhancing my learning and ability to excel at understanding, interpreting and coming up with conclusions based off of other literacy.