Thursday, February 13, 2014

Journal 3 Digital Nation film

       The film Digital Nation was definitely an eye opener for me.  I am one of those
 who was brought up in a time where there was none of this available so easily.
 I did not realize how advanced and far society is in technology.  It was almost like
 watching the Syfy channel. Yes I am aware of some technology, cellphones,
 computers, (I have those), social media, video games, but I was not aware of
 how technology is tolerated in the some schools especially among college students. I
 am attending college and I would never think to have my focus somewhere else but on
 the teacher.

     The video games that are so readily available and used as I watched the film are
 mind boggling especially  the games at the government facility, where teenagers are
 aloud to go and play when they want and recruits visit, are violent in my book and are
 teaching the children to shoot aim and fire without any remorse or consequence.  Yes,
 they are playing a video game but I don’t think that any game with violence is for our
 children in society.  It is almost as if this type of violence is ok with the person playing
 the game but with no consequence or feeling.
     The gentlemen in the film talked about a “New Human Being”, is this the type of
 human being that we would want our children to become?  I’m wondering that with
 more and more new technology becoming available, is this really what we want for
 our children in the future and is it worth the consequence?  

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