Technology Autobiography

Technology has always been there helping me with my schooling. When I was younger, I had difficulties in Math, so my parents, knowing I like to play on the laptop computer, bought me a Math computer game. I would play on this this game, without knowing it was helping me with my math skills. As I grew older, and I received my IPhone and Ipad in High School, it was like I had the internet at my fingertips. While this helped greatly with wanted to know facts at that moment, it also became a crutch. It suddenly became harder to check out books from the library. How did I find them without using the internet? Of course, after taking me a very long time, I figured it out. But was painfully slow at it.

The similarities between me and the students in the video Is simple. Most of the students in the video used their phones. As do I, to this day, will always have my phone on me. Not only for texting or getting a hold of someone, but for the fact that if I needed to know something at the exact moment, I would be able to look it up not problem. Also, the use of Apps on the phone not only help consume time when you are waiting for someone, or waiting at the doctor’s office. The use of Apps on the phone is wonderful for consuming time and also finding out new information. While you are waiting, you could read the news, and see current events.  The iphone definitely became an extension of myself.

Also, the use of a laptop is something I had in common with the students in the video. While I do not use it for making music, or videos, I do use it when I want to learn something new, be it a language (Japanese isn’t that easy to learn on the computer…) or a current event. Mostly, when I want to relax and read current even going on around the world, I would relax with my laptop.

The only differences I had with the students in the video was the use of Video Games, and my ipad. No students mentioned the ipad, which in hindsight is almost exactly like a laptop. When my laptop is dead, or when I want to play games, I switch to my ipad. But the students who mentioned the Video Game Consoles, completely opened my eyes. Since I was a child, I had a video game system in my house. I was four years old playing the Super Nintendo. Even today, now that I am twenty-one years old I still play video games on all different consoles. It is true what the student says, your hand eye coordination because wonderful after playing years and years of video games. But also, when I was younger, and there would be subtitles and speaking parts in video games, it actually aided me in reading. It sounds bizarre, but it is true, Video Games helped me learn, and no those educational video games that I spoke of previously. It is amazing how technology will help you learn, you just have to open your eyes and take notice.