Connected, But Alone

Sherry Turkle is a cultural analyst who has been studying technology and how it shapes who we are as individuals and how it is shaping our relationships with others, ourselves and with technology. She has spoken at many engagements but it’s her presentation at a TED Talk Conference where she shares how technology and social media is changing who we are as people and how addicted we have become to devices. We’re becoming detached and less connected than what the platforms promote and they are changing the way to communicate and engage in everyday conversations. Simple things like looking each other in eye and shaking people’s hand is having to be re-taught because we are losing what it means to be present in our lives.

      With technology becoming more and more a part of lives and it ending up in the classrooms, I think it’s crucial that with technology classrooms we share both the good and back of what it has to offer. Certainly technology has allowed for many wonderful things, the immediacy and instant access to information, the global connection and become information obsessed. However, we are slowly learning that there is a bad side to becoming technology savvy as well. All the time we spend on sites like Facebook, Twitter and Instagram is not healthy, in fact they are making more depressed and lonely. A truly inspirational video and something to be shared with the family, listen to Sherry Turkle.