Literature review of the 2 articles

Maria Alejandra Salamanca 8THA

Rochester School , Virtues project

3/12/17
Impact of student´s use of technology on their learning achievements in physiology

courses at the University of Dammam.

According Dammam University, technology is an initiative for new the new

for of education. It has been suggested that technology application should be

incorporate in student’s daily activities. The element that supports this theory is The

E-learning system. E-learning studies have shown that people learn faster having a

combination between images and text, something that technology enables. Also

technology helps students to be more independent, they will not be only dependent in

the books or the teacher to learn. “Technology has been argued as having a positive

impact on our way of thinking”. Johnson, Steve (2005), in his bestseller book,

Everything Bad is Good for you; here he argues that technology is making us more

intelligent because we have access to all information bout studies, carriers and also

obtaining, interpreting, and processing new information. Many studies have been

researching about how technology affects our brains and impacts how much its use

affects the way that we think and act. Due to this article I think that the

implementation of technology will increase students' comprehension and skills in

reasoning, helping the to do problem solving and increase their creativity. The study

was made in various Saudi Arabia’s Universities, but principally in the Dammam

University, which also has been doing other studies in the use of technology in kids

and adults. This interesting study tried to argue the impact of technology usage on

student physiology, they did an experiment to 5 areas on the university. This

experiment showed that students are more efficient with technology when they use it

in the right manner.

 Privacy, information technology, and health care

In this article the author has an introduction of the advantages,

disadvantages, and problems of move to electronic patient records (EPRs). He talks

about how privacy and work efficiency are lost because of technology. “The most

urgent threats to patient information privacy and works inefficiency are increasing. ”

Rindfleisch, Thomas (1997). He uses a study by Deloitte and Touche as his base in his

theory, indicating that 24 percent of workers on US hospitals are not effect with their

work, most of the are lazy and they prefer having their cellphones than saving lives.

He says “technological developments bode well for improved health care but they

could produce consequences in lost or reduced medical efficiency.” He makes enfaces

in the study of Deloitte and Touche that have a concrete conclusion about technology

affecting the brain. They said it works like an anesthesia to the brain, we feel

comfortable and they convert in total addicts, and this addiction is bad for us, it can

cause diseases as Alzheimer or Parkinson. Also Thomas talks about some hospital

members that violates patients privacity in order to find confidential information, like

money or close familiars. They sell this information, and almost 70 percent of this

information is now sold. Due to this article I think that first we need to start using

technology in a more responsible way taking into account that there are people

dedicated to take our information. And in second place I think that hospitals need to

take care of this confidential information, maybe keeping it on secret or only having

medical information and not all the patients life.