Technology has long become a main part of people’s life in the fields of work and education, and its use seems to be growing in scale and age. Critical thinking skill is one of the most important skills in human being and the emerging technology has had negative and positive impacts respectively, as we will debate below.
Firstly, most high- tech applications launched by software companies make it easier for kids to obtain results of the certain tasks, and the fact leads students to mostly bypass the difficult and fruity part of the assignment and to cheat by engaging less thinking, which means that students do not contemplate logically to reach outcome. Moreover, applications like Tiktok by ByteDance company produce and accommodate only thirty seconds videos which make kids less attentive to the matter, resulting their concentration and deep-work drop significantly, as we can see in China and USA, where 50 percent of students fail to focus on the task more than three minutes.
Adversely, technology involves algorithms based on the facts rather than the myth, which can be helpful for young generation to develop the ability to reason based on the facts as part of thinking critically. Cutting edge products like Glow provide people an opportunity to acquire histrorical knowledge and discuss in their platform with their viewpoints, helping them foster their lateral thinking skills. Furthermore, mind game softwares such as Chess has been contributing to child’s reasoning potential significantly since its launch in Swedish institution in 2003, which offers its learners unique experience to play chess online with their possible rival based on their merit and ranking.
To conclude, emerging utility of technology in education are harmful when it includes less contemplating and concentration; however, some institutions proven that the high-tech products can have the promising outcomes when the facts and lateral thinking involved in the system.