Due for week #2

I have to get things rolling here. I have been reading the on-line text for a couple days now. It has been a while since I read something that has my interest so deep. I like the way the book starts by looking back into history, my history I guess. See I was born in the seventy's which makes me from Generation 'X' and I was raised by a very strict old school Italian family. I fit the mold of so many descriptors in the beginning chapters; I was the one who programmed the VCR and I reset all the digital clocks when the electric went out. That went on until my mother passed two years ago. I still laugh inside just thinking about it. My parents wanted nothing to do with it. I on the other hand was intrigued by the technology. See, I was raised with a black and white TV and I remember how long it took to warm up - ha ha
I think my only gripe about this book is takes a look only into the education at the post-secondary level. Because I teach and for my whole live I have been a very socially outgoing person, I think I have put together a good sense of reality. I use the Internet as a valuable tool and yet there is something very real about not living in a bubble. What I mean is this, not every family has a computer and the Internet at home in our city of Reading. I work in the Reading School District (secondary level), so I experience this everyday. I cannot give assignments that involve blogging and typing essays for homework. These kids that come through my door have more troubles than 'not be able to connect to the Internet.' One of my jobs is to expose these kids to technology not in an overwhelming way but in a way that it sparks the fuel that hopefully somewhere in their successful lives they will able to expose technology to their children; so that someday they will meet up with today's technology.