Technology is not bad; people are bad!

Okay so here in ENGL 516 we have been going back and forth between this idea all semester of what technology is doing to our culture, if it is a bad thing, are people spending way too much time with technology, and so on. But one thing we are forgeting is that people control the technology and so therefore it is not technologies fault if it is being abused. We make choices about what we do with technology, not the other way around. I mean we can allow it to control us—but that is the key here–we ALLOW it. We have choices here about our use of technology here. But even more so as educators it is OUR job to teach others about the technology we use everyday. I mean we cant just put a cell phone in the hands of a kid and say “here use this” without any instructions at all, they are going to  use the way the person next to them does or what they have seen in the media and that  is our fault. We owe it to them to show them how to be responsible with the technology if we wan the to use it effectively. And what that means is WE have to become educated about this same technology. We cannnot bury our heads in the sand and say it is someone else’s job to do this…..IT IS OUR JOB! Yes I feel stronly about this idea. We owe it to them. When we want them to recycle we show them, when we want them to learn to do anything we show them and how to best use technology we need to show them. We need to stop assuming that because it is all around them they know how to use it.

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