Reflection # 4

The article, Is It Age or IT made me start to reminisce about what life was like before I was connected to the World Wide Web. For as long as I can remember I have been around computers, but I still remember the day my family was first connected to the internet and I even laugh now thinking about the impatience and the static-y sounds associated with dial up. I am just amazed that the generations coming up now have never known what it is like to be without the Internet (probably just as amazed as they are that there was a time without internet). After reading this article I realized that I am a part of the "Net Gen" too. I am a laptop toting, cell phone using,video game loving, multi-tasking technology lover! Another thing I noticed in the article was that it talks about the different views on what technology is as defined by all the generations. It suggests that the new generation calls labels something as a technology by first assessing it's usefulness, not how it is made. This means that I must always be getting down to the real core and purpose of the new technologies that I am learning and make them relevant to my students.