Technology: good or evil?

I agree with Burkett’s claim that technology is beneficial to students learning but I also agree with Moody that technology can hinder a person from going out into the world and meeting people. With the advances in technology, we are able to learn new things and one of those being art. Although technology is helpful in the sense that it helps students be able to better analyze art, it hinders some people from going out and interacting with people in the real world.



With the “i-guide” technology students are open to new technological advances that allow them to be able to see art and actually understand it. Students go on trips to art museums and do not understand anything that they are viewing. They tend to just be there. With the” i-guide”, the students are asked questions that make them think about the art they are looking at in order it ignite a response to it. This is good because the students are learning how to analyze. With this type of technology it teaches them what to look at and how to look at it. Most people would see the “i-guide” as a crutch but it is not. The “i-guide” is a guide in teaching students in hopes that they will not have to depend on the guide. Once they use the system a few times they will be able to go about daily life in the way that they will just be able to look at art and get what it is that they need to get out of it.



In Moody’s article he describes how technology is a hindrance and because of it most people have emotional issues. I can agree with this because of virtual reality and online dating people can now hide behind their computer screens and not have to leave their houses to meet new people. This is not healthy but it is very easy. With virtual reality people can be whomever they choose to be and never worry about people finding out whom they really are or what they look like. They can go on living two different lives. According to Moody, these people are unhappy with whom they really are so hiding behind a computer screen allows them to be someone that they would rather be

Everyday it seems as though new technology is produced everyday and me personally I appreciate the advances in technology. I like the fact that when I visit a museum I'll be instructed on what it is exactly I should look at when I view the piece in order to get the best response rahter it be good or bad. I do not like that people hide behind computer screens instead of going out and meeting people. I find it quite creepy that people sit up all day and night pretending to be something that they are not.



We as humans depend greatly on technology and in some ways it is quite unhealthy because it hinders our abilities to do for ourselves. But at the same time, technology is necessary in ways that it gives us the ability to learn more about our environment and the world around us.