The Role Technology Played for Me

Honestly, I don't remember much technology being used in my classrooms. We had a keyboarding class that was required of all the students while I was in high school, but other than that there wasn't much. I think the class was very helpful because otherwise I may still be typing with two fingers haha. However, that was really the only time I remember being introduced to technology in the classroom.

Most of the time I used technology for school was at home. I haven't gone to the library to get a book to write a report (unless it was required to use an actual book) in a very long time. I actually can't remember when that was. I always just went straight to the Internet. It is so much easier and I always seemed to find more information that way.

For students now, they don't know what it was like to not have some of our kinds of technology. I remember not having a cell phone and not being able to have a computer because it wasn't the norm yet for students to have their own computers. I-pods were not around either. I still even have VHS tapes and I'm only 21 so it's not like I'm that old. However, my sister is only 4 years younger that me and I don't think she is old enough to remember those things as vividly. So students now have grown up with that stuff. It is going to make things so much different for students now. They depend on these forms of technology. They don't know what it's like to not have them.