Long gone are the days of spending numerous hours of the day keeping yourself occupied with nature. This new era has been filled with high-speed computers, game consoles, cell-phones and two-way messengers. In today's classrooms, many youth are plugging formulas into their graphing calculators rather than working it out on a piece pf paper. This era is very different than that of our parents'. Pen and paper have gone to the wayside and laptops are the new notepad. Is technology helping the youth of today or turning us less intelligent?
When computers started showing up in the late seventies and early eighties they took up a whole room. Now they fit easily into a small book bag and many colleges are even beginning to require students to have one. Approximately ninety percent of people ages 5 to 17 use computers and approximately fifty-nine percent of them are online. Even younger kids are become computer savvy with one out of four 5 year olds using the internet. Computers......
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