When we take a look at these technological changes being made, i cant help but say i was a big part in the cultural shift. I texted from middle school on. I have Had a social networking site for as long as i remember. I started with Xanga, then myspace, ultimately leading up to Facebook. The other mediums of social communities i was involved in were websites like I use my iphone every day for the past two years. It is quite remarkable the amount of change that has occurred technologically.
Some of the middle school and high school intimiate relationships i had were based mostly on the conversations via phone and instant messaging. Relationships that probably wouldn't have lasted longer otherwise. As time went on, online submission and the online availability of grades became more common place in the school setting. When i was in high school, keyboarding was a class, but now i imagine that proficient typing is achieved at an earlier grade. In college more online homework helps cut down the grading teachers and TA's usually have to do.
The changes are abundant all around us, and we dont realize until we stop to think, how could all of this be done without computers, social networking and other things.
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That is pretty cool that your high school offered a keyboarding class. None of my schools ever offered a keyboarding class (we had a couple games to help typing during computer lab but that was only at one of my schools and computer lab was only available at certain grade levels). My high school offered computer science and I thought that was a pretty interesting class. I thought the class was very fun and it taught us how to make programs and get a feel of the work that goes into the computer programs and games that we see today. I also remember when grades became available via the internet it made breaks seem more relaxing once you knew your grade. The anticipation was lessened due to the technology.
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