Do we always create more effective workers or pupils by using digital media?

Formerly when people arrived their working place they usually started to work immediately after that the working bell had rung. Their job lasted for many ours each day and there weren`t so many possibilities to have a brake during the day. How is the situation in our digitalized world? Mostly all of the workers or pupils in the school have access to the internet by using pc or a smartphone. We all know how easy it is to read papers, add to social communities or just surf on the internet when we rather should be working with something else directly connected to our job.

By watching this video you can decide by yourself if this is good behavior while working.



I think we all should be more critical about how we use the “new” technology during the working day. Some of the job leaders share my thoughts and they mean that the digital use among the workers is a large problem. The main reason for that is because it will steal working hours, and for a company it will become very expensive too. Some of the leaders have gone so far that they have threatened the employees with closing down parts of the local pc- network. In some companies there also have been discussed whether the employees should be allowed to use private phones during the day or not. In school we can see similar problems. There are pupils, and some teachers, that far to easy sneaks into “wrong” pages on the web instead of doing related work. As a teacher this tells me that the school has a big challenge in teaching pupils how to act in the real work life. There are so many positive elements and learning activities related to using social media in school that we have to increase our use of them in the future. I hope that the school will continue and be even better to take advantages of the digitalized technology, but we also need to have a discussion about how, when and in which way we are using it.

By watching the video below you can get information about how expensive "wrong" use of digital medias can be.  
                                                                                                                                                                    

If we use our phone or laptop when we are allowed to and become more critical for personal use while at work, then I will maintain that we have taken a step forward to create more effective workers and pupils.