Technology plays a big role in the education world. Just 10 years ago, educational technology was vastly different than what is used today. Many schools are adapting by providing students with electronic devices, allowing for assignments to be in one place on the device. This change looks like a solution to solving the paper problem, but when looked at deeper, this change may not be a beneficial move.

Giving middle school students devices like iPads helps keep all the work they have in one place, but how does it teach them organization skills. In the real world, the employee is not always given a little metal box that has everything in it for them. A middle schooler will not know what do with all the things they are given. Students are not learning simple skills that help later on in adult life when given a device that does tasks for them.

In addition to organizational skills, students who have a device can lack communication skills. Before technology was prevalent in classrooms, students were forced to talk to each other and teachers. Now a days, communication is done through technology, mostly via texting and through texting language. This means that students are not learning how to communicate in person and with proper English.

Technology advancements in the classroom are important and beneficial for everyone, but it should be used wisely. School should be making students well-rounded and teach them different skills including organization and communication. These two skills are used in almost all job fields. Giving them a technological device that does large portions of the work for them, is not benefiting anyone in the end. It will only create a society of robots instead of people with dreams and skills to accomplish those dreams.