Hello, I am about to post my first blog ever. So please bear with me if I make any mistakes I apologize. This year as a senior I am taking Computer and Technology Applications II. I took computer and graphics part I freshman year. I am a little behind in this class because I just got put in it today from another class that I dropped so I am trying to catch myself up. As the first blog entry I am to talk about my views and experiences with technology inside the class room as well as outside the class room.
The first question I was asked to answer is, how I have used technology at home and in school? How I use technology at home is that I use the computer to get on facebook or a lot of times i have to use the computer for research or writing a paper for school. In school I use technology in the library to research for specific classes or use the virtual library for writing papers. Another question I was asked to answer was what are your beliefs about the future of technology, specifically, how do you envision people using technology in the future? Every year our technology grows and expands. My beliefs about technology in the future are that I think technology is going to be the only thing used. There will be no more writing things on paper, doing homework on paper ect. One example of this would be that last year as a junior I did my math homework on paper and wrote down the answer and the teacher checked it from the paper. This year my math homework is on the computer through a program called Math XL. My teacher can give me problems and I can work out the problems and submit my answer. She can then go into the program and see that I did the problem and see if I got it right.
Another thing that I think we will use with technology is turning off and on things like the light switches. I think that there will be a remote or button that you press and the lights with come on automatically without having to flip a switch. I also think that recharable cars will come more popular although we already have some I think they will become more common and then re chargeable cars will be all that they make.
I hope to be able to experience all the new and fun technology creations in my life time. I can say that I have experienced new technology. I remember when I was younger about fourth or fifth grade texting first became popular and it was the coolest thing ever at the time. Everyone was getting it and using it like it was going to go out of style. I also remember when the iphone came out for the first time. Man that was definitely a BIG hit! I remember when I was first taught how to use a cell phone it was by my older brother. Of course at the time he was at that age where he was cooler than everyone else and he always got so frustrated when I did not know what he was talking about or doing. Now I am the one who had to teach my mom how to text and use the phone. My dad on the other hand could care less if he even had a cell phone.
I must say that the future of technology could also be a bad thing. Children and adults could get to adapted to the remote control switches and always do it from where they are sitting instead of getting up. I think that new technology could also lead us into more obesity problems than we have today.
