A silent menace creeps into the lives of American youth. It can be found on the streets. This addictive trap circulates in theaters even though no one seems to be watching it. Paranoid teenagers use them furtively in school bathrooms and parking lots. Once-innocent children are completely trapped until the wee hours of the morning. Their red eyes and blank stares notice a problem, but only once it is discovered is it too late. This threat is not a reefer or any other drug. It's technology, a new threat. No field advances as quickly as technology. The latest iPhones and tablets are entering many people's professional and personal lives. The most natural progression seems to be the integration and concentration of technology in public schools. However, a hasty transition to a technological world can be dangerous. The use of technology produces a number of negative consequences in the classroom, as it makes students dependent, prevents effective reinforcement of topics taught in the classroom, and places minorities in society and the classroom at an extreme disadvantage. Despite the benefits of having the breadth of human knowledge at our fingertips, technology is not the best learning tool in the classroom. In a university-sponsored TEDTalk, Stephen Tonti said, “We need to teach children to educate themselves. This is the best thing we can do for our children…. Our society must accept cognitive diversity. There are three main types of learners: auditory, visual and kinesthetic. If you place all three types of learners in a science lab class, they retain information very differently. Auditory learners thrive when the teacher describes with brilliant pictures that wheat occurs when muscle fibers contract. Visual learners with......in the middle of a sheet......someone in a bad position. Another problem on the productivity side concerns teachers rather than students: often, technology allows educators to pay less attention to students and do less teaching. Instead of explaining a lesson, it would be just as easy to send students links to a YouTube video covering the main topic. The best teaching tool would be a downloadable app instead of the marker on the board. Technology would begin to replace human interaction in the classroom. What was even more troubling was that a number of students were beginning to “behave” in negative, attention-seeking ways. Technology is simply less personal. Student-teacher interaction is an unspoken goal of the school. Teachers become reliable authority figures and role models. Many children crave emotional connections at school because they fail to create them at home..