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| "FEELING POWERLESS IN A “POWER-FULL” WORLD" by Kaely Miller and Carol Duerksen | ||||||||||||
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YOUTH GROUP LESSON 63
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| 5 How can we use technology to enhance personal communication? 6 Give examples of times in your life you’ve felt unheard because of technology. 7 Do you feel that your friends and family really hear you? Do you really listen to them? RESPOND: Hand out paper and pens. Ask students to write their own reflection piece on how they feel about the technology in their lives. Do they agree or disagree with the story they read? What is their own take on technology in their lives? “WHY DO I FEEL SO ALONE?” Sometimes I feel so … alone. Which is so ironic, you know? I mean, my parents tell me we live in this age where anything is possible. They keep reminding me that I can find almost any kind of communication within my reach. I can call my friends no matter where I am. I can text them whenever I want. I can e-mail them photos and videos that will be there within minutes. I can IM them within seconds. I, apparently, can do so much in this age. I, apparently, have this unseen power surging within my hands and my fingers. So why do I feel so alone? I watched my friend Katie call her boyfriend the other day. They talked for hours. I mean hours. While she was talking to him she was IMing her other friend Sarah. When she wasn’t IMing Sarah, she was finishing her homework. And I started wondering - how much is she actually listening to her boyfriend? Are they having a deep conversation? Does she even know what he’s saying half of the time? Are those “yes’s” sincere? Are those “mhmm’s” real? Or is she just filling space. Continued... |
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