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Some people think that technology is now an invaluable study tool for young people. Others, however, believe that it is harmful for the studying process. Discuss both these views and give your own opinion.

#people #technology #study #tool #process
Today
when we want to learn something
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, when we want to learn something,
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 is as simple as touching a few buttons and, just like that, we can have all the
information
 we need on the subject we want. But when you look back in time the student had to spend
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hour
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on
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finding the
books
 they need,
read
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 them,
find
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finding
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 the
information
 and
finish
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 their homework.
Firstly
 I have to mention that it’s definitely more accessible to click the buttons. The technology
not just gives
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does not just give
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 us the knowledge we need, ready for us to process it, but we can
also
 use various platforms so we can make it even simpler and organized. On the
one
hand
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this
 is very efficient due to the fact that in
this
way
 we can create presentations, documents, projects so the teachers can
also
 grade us based on our computer skills, which,
in
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these days, are extremely essential skills.
The technology
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 helps us evolve, it helps us learn how to synthesize the
information
 in a
way
 that we can understand it better.
On the other hand
, as we start to depend on
the
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computers more it’s starting to get harder and harder to go back to the old days, where the only source of knowledge
were
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the
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books
. We get
use
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 to the new, easier
way
, and
this
 has its consequences. I am 90% sure that the majority of my generation (including me) won’t be able to find the
information
 they need for a project
,
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 if they had to depend only on the
books
 from the library. And that’s not necessarily a bad thing. But by only getting the
information
 through
one
 small screen, we refuse to look around and take the
information
 we need from the world around us.
One
 of my teachers has a theory that’s why it’s harder for us to learn how to drive. When we are behind the wheel we need to take the
information
 from everything around us — the signs, the traffic lights, the cars behind us, the marks on the road…But it is hard for us to do so, because
during
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 all of our lives, all the
information
 for us came through
one
, compared to the world, small, even tiny, screen.
Personally
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 I think that there should be
balance
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a balance
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 between the two.
The technology
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Technology
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 is the future, and we can’t stop that but we can’t forget the old days, where the main source of
information
were
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the
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books
. We have to learn how to do both.
For example
, we can do presentations based on research made completely from
books
. Or the teachers can give us assignments every now or
then
, in which we will only use
books
. But
this
 can’t happen if the educational systems don’t change. Because at the end of the day students choose the easier
way
, which is pressing some buttons.
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