Does the use of technology in schools make students smarter or lazier.

There are many benefits to the use of technology in the classroom as students use technology to access what they need when they need it. They can keep calendars online, and teachers can push due date reminders in a learning management system . Word processors do not need to be sharpened and online books do not get lost. Technology allows students instant access to all the materials they need, saving time, space and mental effort. But technology is also having a bad influence on students as they are slowly becoming too reliant on technology which means their own thinking capacities is diminished as they rely on technology to solve anything. This takes away a students ability to problem solve. Although nobody wants to say anything about it but pass rates have gone up in schools since covid has started not because students have become smarter but rather because they can rely on the internet for the answers they need for tests and assignments instead off challenging themselves intellectually and their own skills to understand the work they have been taught.