My research topic is how technology affects our generation academically. I chose this topic because I thought it would be interesting to figure out. Obviously technology is changing everything, but I wanted to look further into it. I thought it would be easy to research because the question of technology is everywhere. And I'm definitely affected by it so why not do a research paper on it.  So far I've gotten things that are obvious like there are good things and bad things about technology. Good things being students have more resources and easier access to information. Bad things also come from having easier access to information. The levels of cheating have gone up over the years. Having all this technology affects parts of our brains too. People don't have to remember as much because everyone has a phone and can just google everything. 


My research topic is about how technology is affecting our generation academically. I decided to do my project on this certain topic because I personally am affected by it. I wanted to see exactly how I'm being affected. Obviously everyone and everything is being altered by the new age, so why not do a research paper on it? So far i've gotten information about the positives and negatives about technology. The positives are that students have more access to information and more resources. Before we all had the internet and laptops students would have to do all their research manually. That means going to the library and manually citing all their sources by hand. As you can imagine that was a lot of work. Now all we have to do is put information into a website and it does all the work for you. The negatives also come from having so much access to information. The cheating levels have increased over the years, because it's so much easier to cheat these days. The affects on a more scientific level goes to parts of your brain. People these days don't have to memorize as much information anymore because everyone carries around these devices in their pockets that have answers to all their questions in a matter of seconds. When you don't have to memorize as much information the memorization part of your brain starts to lose function over time. What if one day all of our brains start to lose function? Will we be getting dumber while our devices get smarter?