There are many reasons for starting to use technology at younger and younger ages. Our teachers are preparing us for our rapidly advancing world. Many businesses are starting to send work across the seas to other countries that have people who will do it for less money than workers in America. Starting in the past couple of years, classes around the world have been using more and more technology in classrooms. They still teach kids what they need to know like reading, writing, and other communication skills as well as the regular math, history, and science. Now that more classes are being taught using technology, kids will be ready for what jobs lay ahead of them, because by the time someone like me is getting a full-time job, technology will have dramatically advanced. Some jobs won’t even exist that I was planning on doing when I start high school!
I think this is a very important part of a student’s education, but not the most important. Learning how to communicate with people in ways other than technology would be something to learn first. Technology is the easier, faster way, but sometimes you have to use longer ways, which everyone should know how to do. There is no technology that is 100% guaranteed to work when you need it. It is also important because your job opportunities will be greater if you know how to use machines and computers compared to people who just learned the basics of school. You will be more likely to be hired for your job. Teaching this at school is very important for that edge over someone else looking for the same job. These skills are needed to keep up with the rest of the world or else you could end up being left behind. You will need to know how to work machines in probably every job eventually. The business you are probably won’t have the time or money to teach you how to work their machines and you could be replaced with someone more experienced.
I think that everyone is watching and reading everything we do. If we try to get a job, our employer will look at what we did on our blogs and wiki’s to see if we would be a good worker for them. What we are writing now will stay with us for the rest of our lives because anyone can see what we did at anytime. People are using students like me to test to see how we work at young ages with technology, and how it could positively or negatively affect our future. We are the first generation of this and our futures will depend on this knowledge that we are being tested with. If all goes well, more and more schools across the world will start using technology and soon our planet will be rapidly expanding in technology and communications. Anything and everything we do is being watched and scrutinized, and then changed for the next subjects.
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