Technology makes us foolish
I rely on technology as everyone else. Without GPS and navigation, I will cause "lost" (probably lost). I can not even find a car in the parking lot. It is a famous jokes that I do not follow me anywhere between my friends and loved ones as I go in the wrong way 90%. I do not dislike technology, I think that it is clarifying our society. Continue reading to find out what I mean.
A person who is questioned for direction is probably able to understand this weak point. I do not seem to have an internal compass. Admittance is the first step of recovery (I thought that the idea here is too ironic because I never know the correct direction), I it can Read the map and use it. I relied on a state map in 2008 when I did a 28 day cross country road trip (OK, I am I had it. GPS did not work on many of the countryside and desert areas I traveled). The point here is that children continue to grow without being told how to use relics such as maps, encyclopedia, dictionaries.
E! November 2013 Online news articles Cursive handwriting will no longer be taught at school "The criteria for general core education is that cursive writing will no longer be taught at elementary school." I am convinced that it has changed considerably since 2013 Is A state that is trying to leave handwriting in the curriculum. However, older school scribes are more numerous than those who believe typing skills are more valuable to American future business leaders, including computer technology Is Computers are ubiquitous and are fundamentally valuable things that dominate the world today. But is that in fact, basic reading and writing, arithmetic operations obsolete?
Technology is an improvement, not a priority
The answer is big (in my humble opinion, anyway) it is a fuss. This is not a few guards. "What happens if all of the world's computer and technology-dependent systems fail tomorrow?" I do not plan to choose calculators or the Internet instead of long calculations and encyclopedias. Technological advances have been so much that we changed the current state of education, programed human learning and intelligence and considered them all.
But before letting me explain the layout of the spell check software, the speech recognition technology, and how these "tools" are eroding human intelligence, I inform you that I am not opposed to technology Please give me. Technologies to improve efficiency and quality of life have appeared since it rescues the ultimate human life's lives. We believe that we abandon everything we have learned and rely on these techniques to regain analytical and practical thinking power (really true).
Become all robots
Every university or company declares that the problem solving skill is # 39. It is one of the most valuable characteristics that duty can possess. What is the only way the children are studying to solve the problem now is on computers and calculators. When passing the test in the technology free zone, how many students can solve the problem from creative, resourceful, analytical, logical, or memory and deduction?
I can not argue that I learned everything taught at school within my capacity, but I am proud that it seems like an essentially large, deeply embedded lexicon and almost instinctive command . I say reading, writing, spelling, and other language skills are my strongest skills.
When I was growing up, "making a sound" was common. Phonetically and visually teaching was the most logical learning method. I am studying each letter of each word on the page before my eyes, such as the sound that left my father's lips, the teacher who wrote on the blackboard, the spelling repeatedly browsed with my notebook, the same spelling memorized. While, we were taught to memorize the multiplication table. Because I remembered the spelling of words longer than the dictionary, my elementary school classmate was called "walking dictionary to walk". Today, many people are spelling words in two syllables.
I am not here to make everyone feel proud. You can say that you had curiosity in linguistics. Many children tend towards specific learning areas. But if you grew up with Kindle or Nooks instead of flashcards or books, I can not say with confidence that my order of language will be as strong as today. Of course I had a wonderful English teacher. What I like mostly positive is no longer rare. However, regardless of the child's preference for any subject or the teacher's teacher's ability, much of the learning development needs to start at home.
It is a risk that we can not buy that our children grow by autopiloting and may not know how to spell or to learn grammar and syntax. Our future depends far more on the true intelligence of the next generation than the technology we can develop as an alternative. Changes in teaching systems related to technology will continue to occur, as there are changes in family values and climate. But if your last county's library is closed and Barnes & Noble is closed, your electronic reading device is disappointing (you can not do without battery power or electricity). Automatic correction on Dragon Speech Recognition software, Microsoft Word, and smartphones, in fact your child actually know Whatever they may get a passing score, there is no knowledge to spend money on counterfeit. Sometimes charity groups will end.
The software is not bulletproof
In Wikipedia, it is called "a set of machine-readable instructions that instructs a computer's processor to perform certain operations". It is not surprising that machines can not infer context or syntax like humans. As some technologies are intuitive, there is nothing genuine. I do not know if language is still being taught at school, but I'm 100% sure that popular software algorithms that tell people are not developed. Of course, you will need to enter '#' when installed in Microsoft Word, the software immediately fixes the error and changes it as necessary. It happens so fast that you may not notice it. Especially if you look down on your keyboard while typing.
But the red and green lines that signal spelling, grammar, punctuation errors, are easy to understand why something is wrong, where the word came from, which is quite different from homonyms To communicate that, the heavy use of commas does not actually work, it is quite confusing to readers.
Right-click on the green item, a dialog box "Fragment (Consider changing)" will be displayed. As a user, do you joyfully jump and announce that screen genius has noticed that you typed fragment fragments? No! If you knew how to write properly structured sentences skillfully using grammar, you probably would not use fragments anyway! Do not write down something with software aid but use something as an additional filter to make a mistake will not know how to fix all that problem so we will be more dissatisfied with the recommendations I will feel it. mistake. Also, if there is no mistake in what you entered, we recommend you make a mistake. Again, this is not the most smart bulletproof vest in the world but an incomplete filter.
The biggest misconception about this kind of software is that it is absolutely sure like a genius. Although it may be smarter part This is not common. For example, since it merely wrong sentences, there are quite a few mistakes that word processing software can not catch. This software is programmed to screen misspellings and basic grammar errors, but can not detect contextual inaccuracies.
Use the bus' # 39 'bus # 39' * Supplemental: I am using Microsoft Word to enter this very copy. * & # 39; bus & # 39; plural noun and & # 39; bus & # 39; verb. In a sentence, "School bus drivers ride the students on the bus and put them on the yellow bus" Let's see what happens if I intentionally confuse this thing. "The school bus driver takes the students to school on a yellow bus and none has been flagged as incorrect by Word.Okay, this is tough, because the buses & # 39; bus In the past there were multiple nouns and I am dissatisfied recently, but this example completely demonstrates the spell checking software weaknesses and the need for true user understanding of the language It is.
Another good example is what I saw while I was reading articles online. This article is well written in other respects, which may have been the author's autopilot, but this is rarely noticed, but in fact it breaks down good content and prevents it from being published; reliability. For reasons of familiarity, the author wrote "placing the petal on the medal" which is a general term that the error probably will be interpreted and understood by the brain before being processed. Obviously, this relatively well-known author is a part of petals & flowers, and medals & # 39; medals (remember the Olympic medals). Obviously, the reader reasoned that the intention was to use "pedal to metal" which means that the author pushes the accelerator pedal into the car, rather than placing the petals on the medal until the author hit the metal bar or medals It is obvious that there are, I think that is also good).
English is a somewhat esoteric word, I am trying not to apply to anyone. Oh, when we were talking about mathematics, I struggled to avoid keeping calculators. The spell checker is excellent in many respects and occupies the majority of the manual work of repair work. However, it is a pity to submit for grades and professionals before understanding what you are writing first, before revising yourself many times and seeing it by others. Review.
If English is not difficult, my Spanish-speaking friend probably is not getting close to me. Sing '39 I'm sick The meaning is the same. The bad guys are more like marriages and diapers. & # 39; Tough & # 39; & # 39; cough, & # 39; & # 39; everything will sound the same. People will certainly never use it challenging instead - this really happens, and I do not have a spell check warning at the next input: It does not fit challenging. I rebound against wanting to eat pizza later. Sue needs a new car challenging. & # 39; & # 39; and & # 39; & # 39; brakes & # 39; & # 39; & # 39; These errors will slide right through the spellcheck filter (if only airport security was easy). They are not flagged even on cars. to see?
Plea
All of these may not seem to be important in the magnificent plan of things, but these gentle examples are only small indicators of prominent large-scale problems. Technology has entered the area of replacement beyond the area of improvement and is more threatened than literary incapacity. However, as we are subjects, it is worth knowing what else will be sacrificed when language skills fall to the roadside. Spell check software and other read / write convenience manufacturers change their originality and imagination in a short time. Do you think Vonnegut relied on software to help create Slaughterhouse Five? If Steinbeck relied on technology, do you think that anger grapes had become like it?
If today's young writers are not taught to appreciate the same, who are Edgar Allan Pose, Jane Austen, and even the future Shakespeare? Does everything sound the same? Are we all hurting your head? Always because of our limited vocabulary? Or will the selection of masterpieces of literature fall into small hands of narrow paperbacks? Will poetry and prose be linked to mathematics or anything other than computers, will we die and die in school system?
We can not gather depending on the government to maintain important values for the people. Schools have already experienced reductions in many important areas. But the affinity and appeal to technology only shows us that children do not have learning (and holding) value for a long time. With money and handy handheld devices you can get a passing score even using shortcuts.
Does graduate of tomorrow know the difference between adverb and conjunction? Wind, allegory, exaggeration, and onomatopoeia flow into the wind? If such a thing happens, can we recite the old classics of Kindle to each other?
Without Kindles, I have read to us before.
