Lately Technology has been evolving rapidly going from button controlled to touch screen to now voice activated.  These changes are amazing advancements in technology and make the previous eras of technology look crude and ineffective. But how are these changes affecting Children and their friendships. Website’s like Facebook and Gmail are all daily parts of almost everyone’s lives.  Conversations between people are now done more over the internet than they are in person. Ask almost anyone what does “OMG” or “BFF” stand for they will know it. Last week, the Pew Research Center found that half of American teenagers — defined in the study as ages 12 through 17 — send 50 or more text messages a day and that one third send more than 100 a day.  Are you one of those teenagers? How often do you text? How about you try going for a week without a phone.  Look at how much time you suddenly have available to you. Only use computers for typing up essay, suddenly you have loads of time.  Time to go outside and actually find out what your friends look like in real life.   

Technology also affects a student’s education for the better and the worse. To begin with technology allows student’s a convenient way to type up paragraphs and or documents with ease and also print them far more legibly. As well as providing a simple form of editing that prevents them from being marked down grammatically. As well as allowing the student to do more complex tasks with ease like creating PowerPoint presentations. Technology also encourages collaboration among students. While at school teachers find that there are students in their class that are so gifted with technology that they can actually help other students to complete complex tasks.  So Technology works both ways it serves as useful resource and a distraction.