REBECCA O'NEIL Reporter @RebeccaRoundup

as much information as possible in cramped handwriting on that one notecard that one high school teacher let you bring into your final exam?

Remember how one third of that information ended up being useless, another third you forgot how to use, and the remaining third actually helped?

Technology is that note card—at its worst, a rabbithole to distractions, and at its best, a crutch for a faulty memory.

Although technology can be a useful tool for learning outside the classroom, phones, tablets and laptops should remain as supplementary tools for the learning process.

Imagine the attention required when having a conversation with one person. Now, imagine trying to pay as much attention to that original person with several other people talking to you at the same time.

When teachers permit technological devices in their classroom, even if they include its use as part of their lesson, their students are now virtually connected to hundreds of other information inputs. The educator must then compete with these inputs for their student’s attention in his or her own classroom.

Tristan Harris, founder of nonprofit Time Well Spent, compared the allure—and insidiousness—of technology to that of a slot machine.

Harris’ comparison is in line with studies that have found that technology impacts the pleasure system of the brain in the same way many addictive substances do. The former Google employee maintained that technology is designed to be addictive and allattention consuming, even in the way our varied screens are lit and colored.

A study conducted by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology found that students barred from access to the internet tested significantly better than those granted full access to the web during their exams. This study was conducted on over 1,000 students from West Point and researchers indicated that they believe the results differences would be exacerbated in a less rigorous academic setting.

The classes we’ve taken since kindergarten are ultimately and essentially intended to make us critical thinkers. Technology, which puts information and opinions generated by others at our fingertips, encourages its users to ask Alexa, Siri or Google, rather than putting in the work to find the answer or solution ourselves.

Technology is designed to make your life easier or make your life convenient, but now it requires less energy to learn. Since you don’t have to try to figure something out, you just look it up, and your brain is used to not learning.

In the end, the addictive nature of technology suggests that it detracts from our confidence, independence and attention span far more than it assists in an educational setting.

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It’s easy to say that technology distracts us, as it’s become so accustomed to our daily lives. Yet people often seem to forget why it distracts us, as it offers endless opportunity.

One evening, I was sitting in my room studying when I heard the sound of a guitar coming from my 9 year-old sister’s room. I walked in and she stopped playing. I asked her to play it again and she said, “get out of my room.” After numerous pleads she began to play Joan Jett’s 1981 hit,“I Love Rock N’ Roll.” Amazed, I asked her how she learned to play this and she said, “On the Internet, now get out of my room.” Which made me wonder, how often do normal people learn something new on the internet? A pewinternet.org study states, “87 percent of people feel that the internet and technology have improved their ability to learn new things.”

Teachers are scrambling to find a way to keep their students engaged when they all have iPhone’s buzzing in their pockets. The use of technology in classrooms are the solution to the problem.

The use of technology is for the betterment of students, as many of them will go on to become our leaders one day. There's no way that teacher-led lectures,

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In place of taking a phone away, create an app or game they can study with. Instead of boring the minds of our future world with outdated material, teachers now have this unique opportunity to teach like never before - By not teaching at all, and being replaced by robots.

Some people believe the role of teachers will change into more of a coach and facilitator while the real education will take place between robot and child. There are numerous benefits to having machine teach man, as it will save time, money and energy.

Sir Anthony Seldon, ViceChancellor of the University of Buckingham, said in an article by the Telegraph.co.uk, "Everyone can have the very best teacher and it's completely personalised; the software you're working with will be with you throughout your education journey.” ckern.roundupnews@gmail.com newspaper staff. Under appropriate state and federal court decisions, these materials are free from prior restraint by the virtue of the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America. Accordingly, materials published herein, including any opinions expressed, should not be interpreted as the position of the L.A. Community College District, the college or any officer or employee thereof.

Seldon said that this technology is already being shipped across the world and is expected to revolutionize classrooms in the next 10 years or so.

We’re living in a sci-fi fantasy world that not even the minds of Ridley Scott and George Orwell could have ever conceived. Some people think technology is a “distraction,” and it is - but is that a bad thing?

The amount of people being diagnosed with depression and anxiety is increasing, Khani said.

“The education and the outreach is naming what's going on, so it's making help more accessible,” Khani said.

Since the introduction of Kognito, an avatar-based online training program, to Pierce in 2013, there have been a total of 2,165 students who have completed the education, Benne said.

The Health Center began presenting the program in classrooms during fall 2017.

Benne said that she is proud of the students who have completed the training because knowing the warning signs of someone who is suicidal is important.

“It's just like teaching somebody the Heimlich maneuver,” Benne said. “You may never use it, but how wonderful that you might know how to help somebody.”

Khani said that she doesn't want students to fear that if they have thought about suicide, they will immediately be hospitalized.

“That's not the case,” Khani said. “We have been trained and we know which questions to ask. We need to assess risk to themselves and to others. Some of the people we've hospitalized in the past have been hospitalized years ago. So it's not that all of a sudden this came up.”

According to Dixon-Peters, the issue of hospitalizations is not just happening in higher education, but nationally.

“We are dealing with a critical issue,” Dixon-Peters said. “How we deal with these types of incidents, we have what we call a behavioral intervention team.”

The team, which Dixon-Peters said is there to help students be successful, meets weekly and consists of faculty, administrators, both mental and physical health professionals, law enforcement and himself.

“As the committee, if that situation is at that critical level, either law enforcement or a certified health professional will say this person needs to get support now,” DixonPeters said.

Khani said that students should not fear expressing their feelings, because they are not alone.

“The pain is still there, but there are others who are also feeling the pain for different reasons,” Kahani said. “That's one thing that we do with groups. We try to have a focus group so people can relate and they don't have to feel like they're suffering.”

Contact the Pierce College Health Center for information on individual and group counseling or if you are having any thoughts of depression or suicide. The Health Center is located on the second floor of the Student Services Building. (818) 710-4270.