Technology amazes me. When you really stop to think about it we use technology throughout our day. We start with technology first thing in the morning and continue to use it until the day is done. Can you even image life without a computer? It seems so long ago and distant as I sit here and ponder my own question. I can speak of my personal experiences and remember the changes I felt as a classroom teacher when I could use the home computer to create and print hand-outs for my students without resorting to the mimeograph machine (it created strange blue colored print and had a nasty odor).
Life became so much easier for me with the computer. I remember struggling to create a spreadsheet program that could calculate student grades, and then a few years later, we had grading programs that made life easier once again. The first PC computers used in the classroom were monsters....large, slow, and totally confusing to a Mac user. Did it actually become easier when the Apple IIe came along? They were difficult to use too. We have come a long way baby!
Now we feel frustration when a computer task takes a fraction of a second to complete a command, and when we can't 'get online' in any given minute. Life has changed in many ways since the advent of the home computer....for the better and perhaps for the worse. Overall, we have become faster and more productive workers. That is, until the power goes off!
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