Alex Gilkerson
ENG 1510
10/4/12
Dialectical Journal:
Are computers helping our economy? Are they effecting the way we learn to read? In my opinion, it’s a yes and no to both questions. Computers have opened so many opportunities coming into the 21st century. They have helped run businesses by keeping records and even start online businesses. Computers even help when writing a paper, like using spell check. Even with me, I’ve used spell check and I haven’t even written a paragraph yet. But are these tools really helping us? Social networks are attracting younger and younger people every year. FaceBook and Twitter are definitely more fun than sitting down and reading a book. Young kids learn how to read and write using these social networks. They learn the wrong way tho. They pick up bad habits like spelling errors like; r u there, what r u doin, etc. This isn’t doing anything but hurting the young people. And when they go into class to write a paper, they will use these “words” and think they are acceptable. Before computers, there wasn’t anything like this. Kids learned to read and write from teachers or parents, not FaceBook or Myspace.
This article really shows were our society has come in the last couple decades. In my opinion, it isn’t the best way to go. We are teaching people the wrong way to learn. If this keeps going on, in the future, who knows how bad it could get. It is really scary to think about. I recommend this article to just about everyone to raise awareness to where our society is headed.
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