-you can see how far technology has already come and i dont think it is planning on slowing down just because we might be afraid of it or unsure about it. It certainly has made its way into not only the home, the workforce, but the school systems also. Beside the advancement on the computer itself from coming along way from a non-movable large floor model to a portable device that is smaller than some purses i have. The internet and world wide web will impact and affect all ages of learning. K-12 has been impacted by influencing when teachers introduce students to the computer. Children in pre-school are now learning how to use basic computer skills in order to take advantage of programs that are offered on the internet,whereas i wasn't introduce to a computer until middle school. High school students are able to perform much more in depth and detailed learning and research projects as to before doing all the leg work by hand took weeks to accomplish. Higher Education students such as ourselves are now able to advance in their education due to advancement through computers, internet, and the WWW, whereas before we would have to drive to campus to get the education we were seeking. There is not just one aspect of education and business that is not affected by a computer and/or the internet, etc. There are down falls to everything and such downfalls that one might say is that the students might not be able to go into a library and know how to pull information if it is not available on a computer, the physical work of 'work' is vanishing fast and those of us or are future students that haven't been exposed to it will fall short, or will they? On the other hand older adults entering the worforce might have more of a problem if they havent been exposed to the new technology and only know how to use the long hand approach to working, versus the technological side of things.
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edt 5410
17 years ago
Hi Tracy, I think you bring up an interesting topic of the differences in the younger vs. the older generation in the same workplace. Because technology has advanced so quickly in the last decade or two, there are a lot of people that have fallen through the cracks in every workplace in knowing how to use the latest technology. I know that in my district, one school that might have Smartboards and have a training on how to use them the year they were purchased, but if you were hired after that year, you might not have been as fully trained as the first group that was trained. In goes both way too. If you then teach at a school that doesn't have as much current technology as a previous school, you've got to rethink your lessons and how you want to present them. The idea of people not know how to do the "legwork" is a cause for concern. I feel that it is necessary for people to know how to do things the "old fashioned way" but that they should be open and ready for when their school or company decides to go forward with using up to the minute technology.
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