Do you think reading is on the decline, due to technology?
457177
Absolutely!\n\nSpell check, word count, copy and paste - we're basically creating lazy children.  It's even worse in math, where kids can't seem to do the basics because calculators and cash registers can basically do it all for them.
118863
The fewer books the easier it is for children to lose interest in reading. If they lose interest, they don't develop necessary skills to be competitive. Also, children may lose references and resources to learning, as in encyclopaedia's and such.
573945
No, but that may be based on the literal translation of the word "everything"!\n\nOne way to answer that is to look back over the last 10 years and see where have we been and how far have we gone.  \n\nTechnology is moving at a faster pace than all other areas.  However, it is not really moving that fast.  \n\nRich companies and rich leaders are getting richer because they have found a secret.  The secret is to let out a little new stuff every two to three years to cause mass buying of their product.  They leave some errors "BUG" in them so that people are not completely satisfied and must buy the update when it comes out.  The process keeps repeating itself over and over.  Why put out a great product if you can sell a good product several times within the next 10 years?!  No, we will not be that much farther a head in 10 years, but over time we will have computers will have evolved to do a lot more.  \n\nWe will have something like a computer/TV/radio/telephone/home security/home monitor/ whatever all built into one thinking computer!  How long it takes is up to the Rich guy in Washington State!  He did not become the riches guy in the world by being dumb!
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It's becoming less of a focus, in large part due to technology and how it will, arguably in the near future, be integrated entirely into school curricula.  The spell check feature is going to replace spelling lessons.  Just another way technology "makes life easier."\n\nTheorists also believe that we'll "pick up" our mistakes and thier solutions as they're identified-- but these folks obviously haven't spent any time in the real world.  Theory and real-world application rarely coincide.  Why would any child take the time to recognize a spelling deficiency if there will always be a button to click that will correct things for them?  What is the motivation?
201934
So far no, we are not very advanced with our technology. I do think that later in the future maybe in the next decade or more who knows.
192199
Going out of use; becoming out of date.
501818
compared to a century ago?  yes, I think there has been a significant change to educational learning. Look at elementary school.  They had books. Good things those books. But they only had that, eachother, and the teacher.  Now we have books, computers, voice books, television, teachers and they had each other.  Another major learning environment for the very young is the gym. Today, Physical fitness among 3rd graders is very different from a century ago.  Now we have small bikes, a variety of balls for a cheap and inexpensive price, and other odd stuff.  \nNow if I interpreted your question to, does technology impact educational learning, or does technology impact the way a child learns, the actual brain mechanics? Why?\nThe answer would be similar.  Yes ways of learning have arrived and changed since a century ago.  But for a child, how variable is learning?  One child growing up in the city of New York might go through the same phases as a child growing up in Africa, but different skills would be emphasized.
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No. The use of information technology will aid the teachers better inform their pupils about the world.\nMoreover the role of teacher would be more important and stronger as only teachers will tell you where to find correct information and what is right and what is wrong.\nSo, i think IT will complement the role of teacher rather than lessening it.
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It depends.\n\nIn some respects yes very, because think of all the medical advances that have come about because of technology.  Think about the fact that we can now travel to the moon, take pictures of distant planets, fly across the ocean in a matter of hours instead of taking days,weeks,or even months.\n\nSo Yes, technology has helped us in many ways, but as with everything there is a downside.\n\nNow everyone wants you to multitask, which doesn't mean you get anything done any faster or better.  You can't take your time and focus on one thing, instead there are emails to write, text messages to respond back to, voice mail to check, and phone calls to return.  \n\nThere are computer crashes and freezes, which take time out of your day, when you could've had your work done had the computer not froze or crashed.\n\nThere are people who no longer have a job because they are replaced by a machine, or they don't understand how to use the machine.  So, now maybe they can't feed their families or keep a roof over their head anymore.\n\nOn the downside of technology we are really moving towards having only rich and poor, and the poor will simply *NOT* be able to keep up with the rich when it comes to learning about technology and being able to use the most updated products, and since for good or ill technology is now a requirement of most workplaces, if you can't keep up again you may be out of a job.\n\nTechnology has given us wonderful things such as the microwave, but has also given us horrible things such as the Atomic bomb.  \n\nThe problem is not technology in and of itself, it's that humans cannot seem to control the technology that they invent.  \n\nTechnology has to be created and used in a responsible manner, and humans should always not lose sight that their first responsibility should be to the other humans, animals and plants that they share this planet with.\n\nIf people would keep all of that in mind, and put that first, instead of putting money, and the technology itself first; we would probably move forward with better technology that will help make our lives better.\n\nAs it stands right now, we have technology that makes are lives better and worse at the same time.
655103
Are you suggesting that with improving technology we are living less long?\nIf so I can think of nowhere to find evidence to say you are correct.\nGenerally, improving technology goes hand in hand with greater lifespans, although the relationship is far from causal in every case.
164247
Actually it comes down to a basic lack of technology.
5299
well i tink its us... reason being to the introduction of technology. With 'new' medias like computers, televisions... so yeh... generally our eyesight is getting worst as the generations progress... im wearing glasses myself.. :D
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I agree.  I believe it comes from the inherent laziness of people and their lack of desire to read real books.  The level of reading comprehension is deplorable in this country.  I teach students who are currently juniors or seniors and some have NEVER read a book from cover to cover.  Good sentence structure and accurate spelling comes in large measure from reading a lot.  No reading--no spelling or grammatical syntax awareness.\n\nI think the moronic comment of Bazaar above my response is a splendid example of what happens when people are too dumb to understand proper grammar with subject-verb agreement.
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A reading comprehension test would greatly cut down on the number of moronic questions asked in this forum, and hopefully discourage the pre-teens from filling the categories with questions like "dose he like me?????" ... Oy.\n\nI think chat-speak and text messaging is probably partly to blame for the fact that so many young people can't string together a coherent sentence. Also, I suspect this generation doesn't read as much as generations of the past-- who needs books when there's TV and video games? Reading is the best way to learn to write well, and if a person doesn't read... then they can't write.
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Absolutely!  Most children today aren't even learning how to write in cursive and most printing is almost illegible.  \n\nHave you ever thought that if for any reason we lose electricity or computer crashes, how helpless this generation would be?  They can not add without a calculator, they can not write without a computer and they can not communicate with out a cell phone.  We are headed for a big problem...we have never been smarter and we have never in history been dumber either.\n\nMy grandpa used to say that about me and I believe it is pretty true...my handwriting is pretty bad and I hate holding a pencil too.  My grandpa used to whine that we had manual typewriters!...even before IBM and the electric typewriter!\n\nYep...getting dumber and smarter with every new generation!  Pretty soon, people won't know how to sign their own name.
748156
The McGuffey readers are stilll available and I think are still used in some home-schooling curriculums.... \n\ngod bless
538453
Yes, the nerds are usually the smart ones. So schools are producing less nerds these days. It all started going downhill after Bill Gates.\n\nOops! FEWER nerds.