Educational Technology: Keeping Me Behind

Education has been a constantly evolving subject. Even more so with the invention of the internet.  I especially have a hard time dealing with the rensition between so many technologies. The first time I had to use a computer to write a paper was in middle school. I was transitioning from fast handwriting in elementary school to slow typing in middle school. This technology brought me down because I took longer to do papers. This put me back a little in school because I could not write as fast as other students. Eventually I started to buy programs to help me with typing like Mario Teaches Typing and other programs like it.

            The next jump I really had to overcome was the idea of electronic submissions. All through middle school and high school everything had to be handed in as a hardcopy. This made my fellow classmates and I have to work on a certain schedule. We would start on homework that was due for a class as the classes came. So a piece of homework that was for a class on Monday, even if it was due for Friday, I would work on before the class that would occur on Tuesday. This was a very natural pattern. This changed when I came to college. All of a suddenly things like dropbox, email becoming a large tool in education, and things like Angel started to crop up. This threw a wrench into the works because this meant that I had to go out and actually figure out when things were due. This made me miss a lot of class homework because a piece of homework for a class on Tuesday would be due on a Sunday. The class would be completely in my blinders because I was focusing my efforts on my Monday class. The grades I got for these classes reflected less of my actual academic status and more of the systematic adaptaion I was making, and I didn’t make it well, getting a 2.3 GPA in my freshman year in college.