Shift Happens & Vision 2011

"Shift Happens" was a pretty inspiring video. I'm not going to lie, when it comes to technology, I struggle. I am in no way, shape or form technologically talented. The thought of only doing online classes for a year and half intimidates me and eventually using different types of technology in my classroom scares me even more. Hopefully, this class will help me feel more comfortable incorporating technology into my everyday life and eventually my career. The statistics that really got me in "Shift Happens" were the following: "Facebook tops Google for weekly traffic in the U.S." "Social media has overtaken pornography as the #1 activity on the web." and... "More video was uploaded to youtube in the last two months than if NBC, ABC and KOIN had been airing new content 24/7/365 since 1948." These statistics have reminded me that there is no denying that technology is major part of our generation. Either it can be embraced or... I don't know. I guess just embraced. Now that I've decided technology HAS to be embraced, how do I do this as a future educator? The video "Vision 2011" helped me with this. It was nice hearing the creator talk about how he is technologically savvy, yet he still becomes frustrated with his new iPhone (I'm still frustrated with mine!)He also talked about how as educators we can't teach like we did years ago when knowledge wasn't available at our fingertips. Students now have the ability to research anything and everything whenever they want via google or other various search engines. For me, these two videos were a wake up call. Technology is not going away, it's only becoming more advanced. Good thing I have a smart phone for all those times I'm not so smart...