- What are some of the key advantages and disadvantages of portability in technology use?
Like many things the portability of technology has its advantages and its disadvantages. Let’s start with the disadvantages to get them out of the way. One of the disadvantages of how easily portable technology is that is seems to disconnect people from the things that are going on around them. Rather than having a conversation with the person sitting across the table from them, people are siting across from each other on their phones, completely disconnected from reality. Another disadvantage would be that it gives people the complex of having no patience due to having whatever information it is that they need at their fingertips. Sure that sounds like a good thing and it very well is but we lose the ability to “wait and see” and instead we, collective we, develop a “want it now attitude.”
An example of a key advantage to having such portable technology sits right in our classrooms. By having such portable technology, students are able to research and do their assignments wherever they are. There are so many beneficial apps out that that can helps students do anything from make flash cards to writing an essay to creating an excel sheet. As a student myself, I find my phone an invaluable tool in my college experience. I cannot tell you how many times I have forgotten to submit an assignment and how nice it was to have a little mini computer in my pocket that had the ability to not only serve as a platform for creating my assignment but to also be able to submit my assignment through it. It has been a lifesaver!
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