Discuss the role of technology in adolescent cognition and types of technology that adolescents typically use. How may it further adolescent cognitive development? How may it limit adolescent cognitive development?

What will be an ideal response?

Technology has played an increasingly important role in adolescent cognition over
the past decade by expanding the information base available at an adolescent's
fingertips. Adolescents typically use the Internet, cell phones, iPods, digital cameras,
and Blackberries. Technology might further the cognitive development of
adolescents by pushing them more toward the use of deductive reasoning as they
scan through massive amounts of information on the Internet. It could limit
development because of the use of e-mail and the expression of egocentric thought.
Cyberbullying is also an issue.