Tuesday, June 2, 2009

Technology in collge and K-12

These students seem to be pointing out the reality of technology and the internet in today's society. Although we are spending all of this money to be in class and learn, we spend the majority of our time on facebook.
I like that it points out that we write a hundred times more emails than we do papers. A lot of the stuff that we do in our everyday lives is because we have to do it. The video presents this subject, and it seems to say that we are victims of this age of technology. However, it comes down to the fact that we have a choice. We do not have to be on facebook or listen to music. However, this demonstrates that we are losing our ability to communicate and participate in the world. Rather than communicating with people face to face, we depend on AIM or facebook. Rather than talking to people we text. We do not want to interact with people, and are falling away from society. This seems to paint a very bleak picture of our future society.

The k-12 students are pointing out that world is completely different than the world in which we were raised. The world is run by technology, and our future students will struggle if we cannot teach them to live in this technological society.
However, I think that this video demonstrates that although we need to teach our students to work with technology, they also run the risk of losing communication and reading skills.

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