Experience with Technology

I remember my first experience with technology was in first grade when we would go to the computer lab to play games and paint on the computer. The game that everyone was crazy about was “Dinosaur Park Tycoon.” As I progressed through school, the use of technology also grew. Not only did we use computers for research and word processing, but teachers began to use it with their lessons. In Fourth Grade I remember we used a projector to shine our slideshows that we made up onto a screen. This was the first time that any of us had seen this and we were very impressed. The projector soon became a common tool in the classroom. Because of my school system’s aggressive technology integration program, technology enhanced my learning experience by allowing me to find information faster and with greater ease. One of the greatest consequences of technology use was that we as students were held to a high standard because of the amount of technology we had available to us. Sometimes this standard was a little too high and assignments that should have been given 3 days to complete before technology, we now required to be done in 1 day. While technology allowed us to complete work faster, it was still an unfair expectation. But the best use of technology was by far the semester I spent learning how t0 program in Q-Basic code. Thanks to this new class that was offered in High School, I began to appreciate technology more and the amount of work that goes behind it, instead of taking it for granted.