Phenomenon
I think the phenomenon that has me most going “huh?” is technology. A post at my school library blog, “Check It Out” really started the “huh?”
Technology is changing our world in such a rapid fire way. I personally ran to the bookstore and bought Harry Potter and the Deadly Hallows to read. I sequestered myself for a day and a half to get it read. Why? (Besides the fact that it is an engrossing read? ) Because I did not want the Internet and/or the television to spoil it by telling me whether Snape was good or evil and who all dies. Use to be that we did not have to worry about getting unwanted information given to us. I feel sorry for those awaiting the public library copy. I mean, how long can you go avoiding the media? And actually in the end, a person spilled the beans to me about Harry, confirming what I thought would happen.
My eighty-seven year old aunt visited two weeks ago. When she arrived, she pulled out her cell phone to let me know that her plane had landed. Both of us remarked about what would we do without cell phones. I think back to 1992 when my stepdaughters (then 12 and 10) arrived to live with their father and I. The biggest technological decision we had then was whether to get a second phone line installed so that the girls could call their mother. A “teen line” it was called. We had a family meeting over this decision and in a way felt a bit indulgent. If they were coming to live with us today, fifteen years later, we would be handing them cell phones.
Finally, this blogging thing is a technological “huh?”. I cannot believe in a year’s time how many people I have be acquainted with, read their stories, and how the world become a tad bit smaller. The fact that I can write to a prompt each week and people from around the world can read what I have written is truly amazing and exciting. Just please, if you have read some good books, tell me the title but not what happens on the inside. I still want to find out the old fashion way by reading for myself.
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7 comments:
I have an 82 year old grandmother that takes classes at the senior center on computer related information. She is amazing and inspiring. I love the blogging world. It has opened so many doors for learning for me. It also encourages me to better myself professionally.
I do agree with though with the book thing.
Technology really is changing the world. Blogging is a great way of bringing people together in communities of interest.
I teach first grade in Indiana. I was a 4th and 5th grade teacher but my preference is 1st.
Morning Jone,
Thanks for the comment and the laughter. It does seem that everything is closer and at your fingertips, yet the world seems colder somehow. I think blogging helps to connect people and bring sense to the world.
Rose
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I'm with you all the way on the technology front. I harp on all the time the fact that it wasn't that long ago that I was amazed at the speed of fax machines. Now, does anyone even still have a fax?
Hi Jone,
I apologize for the spamlike comment, but I’m soliciting submissions for the Ringing of the Bards poetry blog carnival, August 11th.
If you are interested, you can find more details at my blog.
All poems are welcome, but I'm highlighting religious and spiritual poetry this month.
Whether you submit or not, please come by and visit the carnival!
I still don't own a cellphone. LOL
Vermont is Oct 1st. :)
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