Digital Nation

The video 'Digital Nation' was one of the better documentaries that I have seen in quite a while. One of the more eye opening segments was definitely the one about Korea and the amount of time children spend playing games. I never knew that it got as bad as that honestly. Its really not that surprising considering how easy it is to access over there. Hopefully the US can learn from Korea and educate our children that technology is great and can be helpful but too much of anything is bad, no exceptions.

The story of how implementing technology into that inner city school was very inspiring and showed how technology can have very positive impacts on everyone involved when utilized correctly. That story will hopefully reach other school administrators and they will be able to collaborate with this and other schools about how to implement technology into their schools and hopefully have the same outcome.

I thought that one of the more interesting points made in the special was that while many people argue that we were are losing a lot as technology becomes a larger part of our life, the same thing happened with almost every other breakthrough. We lost memory with the development of the written word, we lost face to face human contact with the phone, etc. Like they said in the video, with every leap forward there are always a few steps back. As long as the leap is bigger than what we lose then we will be fine. I think that more the technology the better. Yes people will become 'addicted' or use the technology for bad, but that can be said about nearly everything. People abusing technology is no worse than people abusing anything else, it all just depends on the scope of the abuse.