‘How do they even do that?’: How Today’s Technology is Shaping Tomorrow’s Students
Lenhart, A. April 9, 2013, ‘How do they even do that?’: How Today’s Technology is Shaping
Tomorrow’s Students. Dartmouth College. Presentation retrieved on July 30,
2014, from http://www.pewinternet.org/
This slide share presentation was a look at how technology
is and will continue to change the way students learn as well as their learning
environment. In this presentation, Amanda Lenhart discusses the ways children’s
learning is affected when growing up in a fast developing technological
society. A U.S. college student today has lived their whole life surrounded
with changes to access to information resources. Changes that Lenhart describes
as, “major new technological developments that disrupt our previous
communication strategies.”
The following are some of the most thought provoking quotes
from the presentation followed by my comments on the topic.
“In 2000, 0% of people
connected to internet wirelessly, compared to about 67% who are wireless
Internet users since 2012.”
“In the U.S. in 2000,
0% of people used social network sites, compared to 65% who used SNS in 2012.”
Basically these percentage increases show how Americans have
changed their form of communication over the years. The change is rapidly
occurring and our young generation today, are those that can expect to be
entering a college with a highly advanced technological environment.
I remember growing up and my father telling me I had to
become good at working with computers because in the future every job would
involve computers some how. I was about twelve years old in the year 2000 where
according to these statistics zero people connected to wireless Internet nor
used social network sites. I find myself providing more technology experiences
for my three year old now as she learns to use my laptop and owns her own
tablet. I have high expectations that she will be able to compete in the global
society with advanced skills in technology; our new information highway.
“Although headed off
to different schools, they had a similar experience of learning their roommate
assignment and immediately turning to Facebook to investigate that person,”
says Danah Boyd.
This reminded me of my personal use of Facebook, where I use
this social networking site to learn about new people I have just met. It’s
amazing how many people rely on this source of information to develop
relationships with others simply based on the information that is available to
them.
“Technology is the
classroom.”
This statement above, speaks about the transformation that
we have seen in college campuses. This entire course in which I find myself
working on this assignment, is online. My entire graduate program will be
online as well. Before I began working on my program, I had come across various
people with different opinions on the concept of distance learning. So many
people had expressed the opinion that online classes would not provide the same
educational experience as meeting in person with the professor. I did have my
doubts when I began my classes, but after a year of being in the program, I
have come to view distance learning in a more positive light. It makes students
more self-directed learners and definitely causes them to manage their daily
schedule more responsibility. I feel that I have learned so much in this past
year and online classes are in no wise a less learning experience for me. On
the contrary, I have become more dedicated to my studies because technology has
become my classroom.
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