A blessing and a curse.
Hello, everyone.
Welcome to my blog and another wonderful edition of the Hive Learner's featured post. The evolvement of technology has really made life easy; it made access to knowledge a lot easier than what it used to be. Those days, to carry out research, one had to leave the comfort of their room to go to the library or cyber cafe to gain access to the materials needed to carry out their research, but the evolvement of technology changed all of that, and the era where one had to travel miles to gain access to the needed materials for research is now a thing of the past.
Today technology has made it easy to gain access without any restrictions to all the materials we need to carry out research from the comfort of our homes. These days you can be in your bed and carry out extensive research without even stepping outside your house; the stress people undergo to get schoolwork and research done these days is a lot lesser compared to the stress people had to undergo back in the day. Those days it was nearly impossible to get access to materials needed, and when you managed to access the internet and materials, it did not contain enough to help get the work done, or it was even slow, and we all know how frustrating slow networks can be, but the evolvement of technology changed all of that.
As good as getting access to materials from the comfort of our home is, it has its bad sides; the good sides, or pros, of gaining access to materials from home might outweigh the cons or bad sides, but it still does not stop it from having its negative effects. The ability to access materials from home and without needing to stress so much has made students, researchers, teachers, and even professors lazy and given room for procrastination. Since they know they can access the needed information and materials at any time they want, they keep postponing and procrastinating when to get a work done.
Since we can access the needed materials and information at any point, students and individuals are no longer eager to learn; neither do they read to know; they just have their phones, and whenever the need for a material comes up, they rush to search for it on the internet and provide the needed answers but never try to really understand it. After all, it is just there and can be accessed at any point in time. Easy access is good, but it has really affected the number of intelligent people, as people no longer read like back in the day. Easy access has affected the educational system both negatively and positively.
People got lazy; procrastination became the order of the day, and it is all as a result of easy access to things. It might have made things easy but caused a lot of laziness and procrastination. Since information is easily accessible, people procrastinate until it is almost the deadline before they get the work done, unlike back in the days when people had their work ready and waiting for the deadline so they could submit it. Easy access to materials and information brought about laziness and procrastination, and we are slowly adapting to that and making it look like it is a normal thing to do.
Exactly the same angle I was thinking about this... One major challenge we have is superficial learning.
Because we know there's always somewhere we can just go and search the words and boom, the answers come up, we find it difficult to read into details what exactly the concept was and that is really affecting us a lot
Was nice reading from you man
Thanks for dropping by Doc 🩺🩺.
You're welcome man
The way you concluded, I agree with you totally because those factors mentioned are the exact thing that happens.
With all these advancement, our knowledge self is not as durable as it was in our predecessor. We hardly retent things in our brain we push everything to air space. It will shock you to hear my father telling you what he learnt in 1960s.
God must help our generation.
This generation have very few readers, we have all adopted the use of artificial intelligence and are not willing to stress anymore.
You said it absolutely right brother. People have become lazy due to easy access and especially students. The bad effect of this is that if they are asked to do a slightly difficult task, they cannot do it and with this their mentality becomes of easy access for everything.
Extremely lazy and it's affecting academic standards.
Affecting too much
Students becoming too much depend on internet studies.
✅Yes dear with the help of technology we've been able to achieve most things in life