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Communication
technologies
I’m a student and, more precisely, a student of communication: how could I not talk about the importance of communication technologies, especially the new ones?
They are taking an increasingly space in everybody’s life, most of all in the youngest generations, and obviously, in students’ too.
Why are communication technologies so important for students? Well first and foremost, I can’t imagine student activities without computers and internet. A student is obliged to manage those CT to do good work at university, because lots of materials are often only available on line (e.g e-courses, jstor’s articles, etc.), because often we are in touch with university management, professors and classmates via e-mail, because we need power point to create the presentations that we often have to prepare for lots of facts…I think I could go on for lots of pages, but that’s not my aim.
By the way, the computer is not the only CT that is very important in students’ lives and activity: also the “old” phone is very important to keep in touch with other classmates for example to exchange ideas and opinions for the purpose of studying (especially during the exams), or to coordinate teamwork that are often exacted during the semester.
Further, in my point of view, those new CTs are very important because they give everybody a free and quick access to all the news of the world, and I think today it’s very important to always stay informed about what is happening around us, especially for a student (and especially for a communication student), because everything changes
very quickly and we are in a very uncertain period, with an economical crisis that is very
worrying, so I think it’s a moral
commitment to keep on top of the news and current affairs.
I would close my reflection saying that, CT could without any doubt be a very precious tool for humankind, but it is important to use them in a fair and a good way. The modern society already is giving as some bad signs about an overuse of CT and social media, that are becoming maybe too much of a problem for someone who isn’t able to separate the virtual and the real life: I think we have to reflect deeply about this.
By Joel
Melle