Did you know this video scared me? Absorbing all the facts and statistics on everything from jobs to intelligence to population was overwhelming. I myself am technologically reserved; I learn what I need to know but everything else is far too intimidating. In our country jobs are a necessity for survival and with technology being more important in all professions, I am a bit worried. As someone studying to be a teacher I feel like my profession would be one of the last to be strongly changed by computers. My mother is a kindergarten teacher and just received the "smart board" as a test tool for her classroom. My mother is the first teacher in her school district to receive this form of technology. When she told me I asked if it would be better used with a higher grade level and she asked me to come in and watch how her kids used it. The kids did extremely well with it and because it is brand new, it holds their attention in a different way then an overhead or a computer. I enjoyed the statistics on other countries and how they somewhat brought America back to the ground. I love the idea of the Internet. Because of the Internet people are connected in a whole new way. The Internet is now much more than a channel for the technological elite; people find soul mates, people pay their credit card bills, people sell a tissue from Britney Spears, and people can talk and see family living in other countries. While the major changes of computers being smarter than the whole human race I can't say I am ready for; I can appreciate that shift happens and will try my best to learn how to incorporate technology into the classroom.
