NetDay Results

The NetDay results, although they did not surprise me, were still astounding. I was especially struck by the amount that has changed since i was younger. High school kids are now using technology much more, at school as well as in the home. I would have to consider myself a technical immigrant because growing up i had access to even less technology than most my age. My household had no internet and no cable or satellite television and i have never owned a cell phone. The only technological gadgets i own is a laptop computer and an ipod. I still find it hard for myself sometimes to understand technology and how the new products and programs that keep coming out on such a vast scale work. There is also something different about the high schoolers now from those of us who went to high school several years ago; that being that technology now advances more rapdily than it ever did before. When my generation was growing up it was just about the time that technology started this rapid progression. As far as the effect that new technologies will have on my teaching, it is hard to say. It is most likely that technology will keep advancing and when we become teachers there will be many different technologies than there are even now. Even so, it is quite obvious that teachers now and in the future will need to attempt to utilize technology in the classroom. From my point of view the use of technology will need to become more prevelant in schools because younger generations will know how to use it, and if used well technology can change the way that kids learn.