I graduated high school in 2003 and can already see significant differences in the technology I used in high school and the technology they are using now. It is amazing to see, but it makes me feel old. I think, "wow, these kids know so much more about technology than I do and they are only 15." My mom would always say that when she was in college the computers were huge and they had to use these punching cards...I have a hard time picturing an image. But she used typewriters to write papers and used the card catalog at the library. I would feel bad for her because it seemed like with the technology I had, writing a research paper was a lot easier. But is there a trade-off?
I wonder what skills she developed from her school experience that I didn't gain from mine because of the different technologies we had. Are there things I missed out on? Are there things kids are currently missing out on? Or were the things my mom went through insignificant inconveniences that we have solved with technology so that we can spend our time doing productive things. What do you think?
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