BC 12-A 5-page Argumentative Essay Books are Vitamins; Technology is Fast Food Books and technology are both undoubtedly helpful material in enforcing education. They are both different approaches in learning, but when combined together they can make students’ lives a little less hard. In the old days, books were the epitome of information. But schools nowadays are not only accepting the innovation of technology, but they are already adopting technology into pedagogy as well. There is little debate that technology is indeed a convenient and a rather exciting tool to be used in education, but the question would be, “Are they truly the …show more content…
For students and adults alike, there is no question on how profoundly convenient and efficient technology is, especially when it comes to urgent deadlines and research, but this convenience has caused people to become too dependent on the Internet and has thus led people to feel less involved and to develop certain levels of self-doubt regarding each of their intellects. This claim is further supported by a survey conducted in Silliman University wherein the results demonstrated how students today are becoming too dependent on technology, unlike the students before the era of the Internet. The researchers asked students if they’re more comfortable doing homework with Google or with nothing but self-thought. A majority admitted that they do rely more on the information from the Internet because they are afraid that their thoughts or answers might be incorrect, hence they dismiss altogether the possibility that their thoughts might be otherwise. Because of the abundance of information from the net, students no longer feel the need to further investigate and discover the answers to their questions themselves. They feel less interested and they end up deeming research as only an academic requirement and not as an engaging learning