Although we live in the era of high technology, I think the progress of technology is ruining students rather than helping them. Students tend to spend even less time on studying because they can gather information they need so easily. Even worse, thanks to technology, students do not think creatively anymore.
Before anything else, students think they don’t have to take lots of time to learn about something. All they have to do to gather information is just turning on the computer and surfing the Internet. But this idea makes students lazier. For example, I have read an essay written by an undergraduate student when I was a graduate student, and I was so surprised because the essay was exactly same with a famous blogger’s I’ve read before. He even did not revise misspellings of the original, which meant he had not read the essay. I don’t think he might learn something about the topic in this way. He might only learn how to copy and paste documents from the Internet.
Furthermore, I think learning is always followed by creativity that helps learners convert the information into their own new knowledge. In a learning process, it is important for students to make abundant information of their knowledge. However, though students nowadays can get so much information with help of technology, they do not use their creativities to absorb it. Students usually say getting more information is gaining more knowledge. But they are totally misunderstood. To acquire knowledge, it needs not only to gather lots of information, but also to think creatively on the base of the information.
It is good we can learn something more and quickly than ever before thanks to high technology. But quantity of information is not the only thing essential in learning. Therefore, I do not agree that technology helps students learn information.