Blog Post #0

I always felt that my generation has grown up through one of the stranger times in history. We entered at the dawn of technology, computers were finally becoming available in everyday homes and televisions were already a common household item, so my interaction with technology has been frequent through my life, and I believe in the lives of my peers. We are so technology based as a society and it has become so ingrained with how we get schoolwork or work done, and how we go about with social interaction, we are more connected than ever before. There are some who find this frightening, while others believe it is the necessary course of human evolution, my beliefs lie somewhere in the middle. I have always been around some sort of technology and have managed to familiarize myself with many programs over the course of my life and have used them to my advantage. I am familiar with Windows and its operation, as with Apple computers. I know office programs, but find myself unfamiliar with coding. I like to think i am a quick learner when it comes to adapting to new technology, seeing as i have always been trying to play catch up with these new techs and I look forward to what this class can offer me.

As far as what I hope to learn in this class, I cannot say for sure. Perhaps a deeper understanding behind the mechanisms used within technology and the building blocks that were necessary for creation. I would also be interested in the history of some of these technologies we may be introduced to in class. I would also be interested in seeing the application of technology in an educational environment that could cover a variety of grades to see the effects of technology and learning. I know for a fact that there are new "toys" in classrooms that I never got to experience because I have done classroom visitations recently, I would like to see the new dynamic in classrooms that exist because of these new techs.

I find that my test results tend to lie towards the middle, I am not surprised by this. I find that trying to determine somebody's entire being in 30 questions or less not effective. Some of the questions I was very unsure how to answer because in past experiences I have gone through many methods of learning and i am always adapting to new ways, and not unfamiliar with bringing back older methods, given that they work for me. I am a person who relies on my emotional state and gut instinct when given a decision, and that decision making process has led me down many paths of getting outside my comfort zone or remaining within it, it matters little to me at the end of the day. I will most likely continue to go down the path I already follow despite these test results because it is adaptive towards my learning style.