Action Research

Aloha guys,

thank you for coming to the final portion of

my action research and this is the presentation.

So I hope you enjoy this as much as I did and we'll get started

for my external action research.

I focused on the effects that technology has on education and society

and also interpersonal relationships.

Let's start off with what is technology. So technology is simply defined

as the application of scientific knowledge to the practical aims of human life or

as it is sometimes phrase to the change in manipulation of the human environment.

So whenever we use our scientific knowledge

to achieve some specific purpose, we're using technology

And living in the 21st century.

Technology is expected in our homes, schools and workplaces. It's everywhere.

The data collected from participants in the different generations also gives

a false sense of technology because it's just a small glimpse.

And

one thing that I really focused on for this action research

and really helped bring a good picture of technology use

was these four participants and

I

chose people from different generations and that gave a really

Small perspective as to how technology has grown in both education,

interpersonal relationships, communication and society.

So my oldest participant was born in 1939

and the youngest participant was born in 2003.

So that really brought everything together.

Okay, let's go, let's get started.

So further research questions that I answered in my action research

was does technology enhance or hinder our educational system today?

How does it affect society? And does it affect society in a positive or negative way.

Number two are

positive and or negative, long lasting effects

of technology use.

And does it affect our interpersonal relationships and what are those?

Number three

is our daily use of technology,

iPhone directions, communication, social media work,

etcetera.

Does it hinder or enhance our interpersonal relationships and

how does it affect us as a society?

One thing I loved about this was I chose

the background of Jacques Cousteau doing his research and

that was really fun. So

I just really enjoyed each part of this process.

So the purpose of this study,

right, is to determine if technology hinders or

helps us

as we integrate technology in our lives

As we know and have seen not only from 1939, but since technology really

became a pivotal use in our everyday lives, does it hinder or helpless?

And how if it hinders us, how can we use the strengths and

abilities to,

to grow

as a society and to grow as people and families and educators, how can we really use

the negative and turn it into a positive

um,

something to reflect on really from a school perspective

and an educational perspective is two things number one,

a school

as schools and as educators,

we have responsibilities to do what's best for our students, right?

That's why we go into this to make

a difference and to impact the younger generations and

build them to be better.

So our students have a device in their pocket

that is both infinitely valuable and infinitely dangerous.

That's why it becomes clear that utilizing technology in the classroom

is less of a choice and more of a responsibility.

So the biggest takeaway of the purpose is to use technology

and be held accountable for that

as adults and as older generations. And as

we see the negative effects of it

further in the study

really like we need to be held accountable

because we imitate to the younger generations.

They see what we do, right. They mirror us

digging a little bit deeper into the history of technology.

This was really fascinating.

technology in the classroom goes as far back as 1870 and so an example of

technology and how it affects society is the printing press.

So

right, the printing press created

more books

to come out

much faster.

And

Because of this technology, we see how it affects society and

unfortunately it affected society in a negative way in the 15th century.

Um, because a small fraction of the population knew how to read

and this creates a divide.

Um,

and a social conflict

and leading to inequality. So

that's just a small minor example of how technology

throughout history.

Not only did it advance and create all of these beautiful opportunities

for more books to come out and people to be more educated and

sadly we see it, you know,

it did the opposite because it created a divide.

Not only did we teach, not teach people how to read it created a division

and social status

In the 15th century.

So that's just a small example

of the history of that

and leading next to our topic of society.

So

we look at the positive and negative effects throughout

this action research and there are all these warnings

and negative effects that technology has in our mental health,

which mental health is a huge thing,

but we also see the negative effects of relationships,

society and education.

Um

and the big question is, what can we do about it now that we see the negative effects?

Let's,

you know, let's use technology and let's turn it into a strength.

So how do we use and apply technology in a way that benefits others?

And back to what I was saying for the purpose of this study is that it starts with us,

right?

The parents, the teachers and the mentors,

Children imitate what they see and we provide

them with technology in our homes and our classrooms

and even in our conversations.

So living in the 21st century, we really need to

be held accountable and be aware of,

of how often we use it to

build those communication skills and conflict resolutions.

That's one thing that I've seen in relationships that really

are struggling.

So we're the ones who give a physical representation

of how technology is applied in our everyday lives.

So therefore we the teachers,

parents and mentors need to direct the

use of technology um within healthy boundaries

and

this leads to

relationships. So

um

This research has revealed the overuse of

technology and great use of technology and it

also as we see now in the 21st century it's created a society that craves

the need to always be connected and we see that with younger generations,

right? They're always on their phones. There was on Snapchat or instagram and like

so much of our

our work

is

is around marketing

and

that's just how it is. But being able to use it in a healthy way that can then, you know,

lead to

other things.

Um so we're we always create this need to be connected

due to this amazing resource of always being connected.

It created an addiction need and desire to always

be on certain technologies such as our phones.

This information allowed for the healthy application and solution to

apply these technologies to improve our education society and relationships.

One little solution to limit our phone use is an app right?

It has a timer on it and it tracks

how much

time you've spent on your phone and what you've been doing on your phone?

Are you on your email? Are you on Snapchat? Are you on social media? Are you

are you texting and calling people? Is that work related, Is it you know um

family related or from related all of these things.

And so we can just there's these little technologies that are put in

to help change the direction to use technology in a way that really benefits us,

as mentioned before in our education, going all the way back from

the typewriting class now too, or we had computer labs, had computer labs as a kid.

We see that technology has really advanced education even today,

as I do this presentation, I'm on my computer,

I've done everything on my computer and I haven't even been in the classroom.

So that's one huge benefit to technology in our

lives and it's really advanced education in a way

um that I am so thankful for.

Um

leading down to the final slide, there are the effects and

we see the neurological effects and younger generations today and

and how we integrate that. Um

as parents, as educators, it's really up to us and to help hold us accountable

um because there are a lot of neurological effects and you

see people's attention spans getting shorter

and shorter and that's really frightening

being able to read a book and hold a conversation and

and

one huge effect that I've seen for young girls

is in one of the participants I had. She was born in 2003. So she's

19 right now

and you see the constant comparison on social media, right?

Because that's how we're all connected.

So there's a beauty.

We're connected to people instantly friends that we wouldn't

be friends with that are across in different states.

We're now connected to them

at our fingertips. And it keeps those relationships strong and healthy and

um

which is a beautiful thing.

But then you see the negative side of the

coin and you see the comparison and you see girls

and boys and

culturally what technology, you know,

it's integrated in everything. And because you're so connected,

you're comparing yourself to like, oh, why

why isn't johnny dating Susie or what happened? Or

why does Suzie not look like Amanda and how come I'm not accomplished?

You know, how come I didn't finish school?

Or there's all these negative effects to it to constantly being connected.

And it creates a very unhealthy comparison

for younger generations and my generation,

like all of my friends are getting married and having babies.

And sometimes because I'm seeing that all the time

my behind did I

did I miss something. And

it's

it's hard, there's two sides to the coin and we need to be able to

not only be grounded in who you are and

thank goodness I know the Lord because I wouldn't

be who I am today without him and

knowing my value and knowing my worth and

being around people and having those physical

um

conversations

In those relationships where I'm engaged and

having human contact and what that actually

does to our brain and the science behind being hugged for 10 seconds,

it sends off all of these things in your brain and we need it.

And that's how God made us. And so they're really

there's so many benefits to technology,

but there's also beauty and human connection and I really found that in this study,

and so I'm very thankful to have done this study

and in conclusion,

technology is meant to be a tool

and not something solely relied on.

So there are many studies done that have shown in

reference that share the positive effects and need to have

personal, real human connection. It's vital to our mental health,

Physical health and emotional health and technology apply in

our educational system over the course of 64 years

has grown immensely.

And the data shown through those surveys that I mentioned in testimonials and

the research that technology has helped improve an advanced education.

So thank you so much for

being on this journey with me and I can't wait to hear your feedback.

Thank you guys Mahalo.

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