It is reported that today, the information contained by a copy of Washington Post is more than a person can receive in his whole life in the 17th century. From this prospective, modern technology definitely makes us more informative. In my view, this acceleration comes from two approaches: the updating rate of knowledge and the spreading speed of information.
For the first term, we know surely that we have to learn more and learn faster in order to catch up with the speed of the development of the world. Modern heralds raise a term called "life learning", so undoubtedly students learn more information and more quickly. The best demonstration of the updating rate would be Wikipedia. An interesting story earlier this year was that one day, the spelling of the football player Pepe's names was mistyped by a Wikipedia user. On the following day, 112 media had this wrong-spelled name in their report. This illustrated that information is changing everyday, every minute, even every second. An extreme statement towards undergraduate student says that "the knowledge you learn in your freshman year would be outmoded when you come into your junior year". Maybe this is a joke, but it definitely shows how fast knowledge is renewing, and students will of course learn more quickly.
Also, form the range of information we can get touch of, I, as a student myself, can feel the convenience and broadness of learning brought by modern technology. My favorite program is the online course of those world class institutes, in which the knowledge of the best colleges in the world is taught. I do not need to go to Massachusetts, just input ocw.mit.edu, that I can take the courses in Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It's a piece of amazing good news for students around the world that education and learning has surpassed the spatial constrain. Also, when I am in high school every day, our teacher often gives us homework to search information about a certain topic. We needn't go to libraries any more. Google, Youtube, Wikipedia, and Amazon, we can find almost anything existed in the world (or even not existed) there within seconds. And when next day I go to school with my homework, I feel as if I had become an expert on the topic. Just one evening to become an expert, it's no better demonstration how we learn quickly using modern technology.
Today, being a student is easy, yet also tough. Easy because we can get to know about information at a fantastic speed, tough because it's too fast and we have too much to learn about. But no matter what learning has become of, one thing is for certain: that we have become more and more knowledgeable and quick to learn than ever.