Computer Technology

Generation after generation, our society advances in various technologies. Computers as being one major technology advancement have been most beneficial to all of us in the world. In particular for students going through their school and college years receive the biggest gift of all. Nowadays you don’t have to leave your home to complete research or many other studies. You don’t have to deal with paper and pen, and most importantly running out of ink or not having a pen or pencil to write up a document. So throw away your pens, pencils, and paper computers are taking over the world.

If we take it back from when computers were first introduced into the world of consumer’s we can see a big difference in people’s lives, as for example instead of writing by hand term papers or other various documents, this could all be done by typing on a simple keyboard and printing without smudges and sloppiness. With this in mind, the sloppy handwriting and misspelled words would automatically be fixed by having a computer around as a problem solver for students with these kinds of problems. Getting all of your school homework’s done faster and easier with the very big help of computers. Knowing that computer’s have such up to date technology we can refer this to:

Postman, Neil. “Of Luddites, Learning, and Life.” Connections: Reading and Writing in

Cultural Contexts Third Edition. Judith A. Stanford. 506-511.

The computer advancement over the years turned consumer’s into home based individuals. Students don’t have to leave their homes to go to the library to look up a book or go through the hassle of flipping through pages looking for a certain phrase or even word. Just simply take your library card and throw it away, because even now in the library you don’t need a membership to access their computers or even to take a book out for a couple of days to read you can now do it on the internet. The internet that is programmed into each computer nowadays gives the students a world wide connection to be part of a new technological “society”.

On top of all of these beneficial values of computers at home and in schools, a student would not need to leave his classroom to be able to communicate with a friend or online teachers. The bringing of people through the internet could help a student study one on one with a teacher that may be abroad without even leaving their classroom or home. So now the shy students who really need the help with schoolwork could hide behind their computers and still be able to study with a teacher on the computer. Or most important the students who say they don’t have the extra