THE PROS & CONS OF TECHNOLOGY

Start a list of they ways that technology has made our life better and the ways that it may have
made it worse:

Pros of technology Cons of technology

● Allows people to cheat in class

● Quick access of information ● Hacking
● Provides entertainment ● Makes people have the lack of
● Creates new Jobs
● Has a wide variety of learning sleep
materials ● Privacy and personal information
● Makes studying Enjoyable problem
● Facilitates Learning ● Will have learning barriers
● Saves more time ● The internet might not work
sometimes so it will be hard
● People will get addicted to
technology after using it a couple of
times.

Look over your list. What do you think is the biggest advantage and why? Support your reason with examples.

When I look at this chart I think the biggest advantage is getting quick access of information from the internet. Because when
someone is doing a research project they can get all the specific information they need and they don’t have to do that much
hard work to get the necessary information we need.

Now do the same with the cons. What do you think is the biggest disadvantage and why? Support your reason
with examples.

When I look at this chart the biggest disadvantage that I see is getting addicted to the internet. The reason why I think this is
the biggest disadvantage is because when someone is looking on their computer all the time like playing video games they
are getting more sucked into that device and it will be mentally and physically bad because you won’t go outside at all and it
might even cause anxiety and depression and so that is why I think that addiction is the biggest disadvantage.
 Messages in “THe VELDT”
Fill in the following table to collect clues to the overall messages in the story;

In the space below, list the key facts from the story:

1. The kids have a nursery that can bring things to life

2. The parents want to close the nursery because the children are imagining things like africa that
their parents don’t like because it has death, lions and the very hot sun that they don’t like
3. The parents are even starting to get tired of their automated house because they have nothing to
do and they feel like they are useless
4. The parents want to go back to their old life
5. The parents don’t like their mother and father’s plan

Symbol: This is symbolic of:

1. This is a symbolic that the kids are

1. To the kids the Nursery was just like attached to their nursery because the
their mother. nursery is just like their mother.

Messages in the story:

When there is too much technology it can take over people's lives and even their jobs. Like the house
taking Lydia's role as a mother.