So...blog about technology...any technology...
First, I adore using blogs for education purposes. Last year as a media specialist, I had my students create blogs as part of the presentation of a research project: there were some kinks, but overall, it was an exciting medium for students to begin playing with, and an interesting way for them to present their research, in pieces as they went instead of a formal paper at the end. I don't know if I will be using blogging in the classroom this year, but I would like to work it back in again.
I have become so dependent on my computer, which amuses me since we didn't have a computer at home until I was in late elementary school. Now, I am always utilizing it: to send email, to write stories, to plan lessons, I even watch tv and movies on my computer! It's amazing how different this is from my childhood memories, playing computer games with crummy graphics and agonizingly slow speeds and occasionally using WordPerfect to write a report. As a kid, I actually preferred my mom's old electric typewriter!
It's also amazing to sit back and consider if technology has come so far in my short lifetime, how much further will it go over the course of the next 25 or even 50 years?
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I didn't have a computer until a few years ago - and I'm old. My former job wasn't one where I needed it. One thing I see is that now I have a computer in my bedroom, and my kids all have laptops in theirs, so we all go to our separate corners. We spent a lot more time together before we all went techno.
ReplyDeleteThat's an interesting point, Martha...I see that even with my husband, when we leave the laptops home on a trip we tend to spend more time doing things and talking...and yet technology has us more "connected" than ever before...interesting paradox.
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