Looking Back

Learning has became more advanced in the years, comparing my education levels in high school to my parents levels of education is somewhat difficult. As a sophomore in high school I was in pre - calculus  and I had no idea what I was doing, as I went to my father for help he told me that those problems he was helping me with are mostly the sames ones from when he was in college. As I have been studying how technology has become more prominent in the classroom, I began to think about that one interaction with my father, "what if he had the technology we have today"? How different the world would be. 

In many of the cases that I have seen the "older" generation (and I use that term loosely) have grown up with a completely different learning style in the children in today's society. We use laptops to take notes, write papers, search for answers we don't know. The parents of this generation are more of the handwriting both notes and papers, and if they didnt know an answer they had to look it up in a book, or go out in the world and find it. in recent polls the "older" generation have not fully accepted the change in the technology.

As I go through my college courses and start to venture into my degree field classes I am having to take an Educational Technology class I can see how much this world as become independent on technology. If you step outside and go to a restaurant what do you see? A couple on a date not taking, just on their phones on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Instagram? That is the normal way of doing things today. Other than no social face to face communication technology can actually be very useful in the classroom.

As an inspiring teacher I have always been afraid of technology in my classroom. I was raised on pen and paper, taking notes by hand, no technology whatsoever. But as I go through this class I am starting to venture out and accept certain technology. One of these programs is blogging! So swhen I was in high school our classes no matter what subject they were we had to keep a journal. We would pass the journal around and read each other stories, when we were done we would write comments on said story and be done with it. Blogging could be a well rounded way to keep everyone doing the say thing but in a better more easy setting.