Technology and it's menacing burden

"What if we don't want to use a Blackberry because they are stupid and pointless?"

                                               -Dwight Schrute Season 4 - Episode 02 - The Office

  Technology seems great, it makes life easier, it connects us, helps us, makes us more aware. But in the same time, it makes us less aware about our environement, it harms us through it's comfort it disconnects us with our self-awareness. but I think most of the time, we don't really see that it's driving us away from what we actually are. As humanity, we lack the ability to see things cognitively at first glance. We just suck the joy or easiness that we create around us, and when we start to suffer from our comfort zone, it's either too late or we don't care anymore so we decide to adapt. We become less, but we know more.

" Our knowledge has made us cynical. Our cleverness, hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little." - Charlie Chaplin, The Great Dictator

As a person who became who he is through usage of internet and modern day technology, I can say that we are overusing it. Mainly because we don't know how to use it. So to understand how to use technology with a very crucial task of teaching, has utmost importance. 

Yes, new generations are and will be different. We are more of a consumer now. We want to consume, and we want to do it fast. As teachers we are planning to teach 45 minutes of lessons to kids who can't stand watching 20 seconds of youtube ads. We need to change our ways as teachers and technology is our best weapon in that regard. Internet is a great way to connect things, students and teachers for instance. With usage of blogs, teachers can share their experiences with other teachers and as a person who just started to teach, I thing it's a valuable asset. 

 For the last decade, we have been improving visual and auditorial materials in our classrooms. But we don't care about kinestetic learning. We try to make our students see and hear. But we don't expose them to the real things that we want to teach. We teach them flowers, but they don't smell them. I think with technology, we became lazy and that's not a surprise to be honest.
We always wanted to be lazy as mankind and given the oppurtunity, we would always choose to be lazy.
At least I would. As an individual, every person has a right to be lazy.

My cousin during her school trip. Yes, it's a school trip.

But not teachers. We don't have that chance.