Reading chapter one from "eThink-As An Emerging 21st Century Problem Processing Curriculum" ( http://ceap.wcu.edu/houghton/EDELCompEduc/chapters.html ) I am amazed how fast technology has come. It was just 1994 when I went to Sears and bought a Macintosh and went on the internet-it was comercialized that year. Looking at the timeline of technology, there is an incredible amount of time during human existance that we made tools, wrote text, spoke in languages, read written words, worked, invented and lived. In only a short time, however, we developed the technology of computers and here we are.
Gone are the days where we were called inside for dinner by ringing a bell (when I was little we kids all hung outside 'till we heard our parents call or the sound of our bell beckoned us home-we would yell, "five more minutes" of course). Now we have cell phones and pda's that tell us our schedules and where to be.
We have to embrace technology even though we long for those days when it was a little more simpler. The speed of technological advances is staggering and we just have time to take a breath sometimes. This is the way our culture is going, and as an educator, I want all my students to learn all they can about the technology that is available; to use computers, programs and software. Our goal should be to continue (or in some cases, become) members of our growing cyber community. We have to look ahead, even though it may be fun to look back once and a while.
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