Blog 2: With every new year, comes new discoveries...and technology

There was an age of discovery. There was an age of industry. Now we're still in the midst of the age of technology. Every year we are still discovering new aspects of computers and the internet, and how we can integrate technology into real life. But sometimes, some individuals get left out of the rebvolution due to disabilities or societal seclusion. Though, the advancements of technology hope to erase that in the coming years. Enter WordQ, a software that works with any word processor. It allows individuals the access in correcting their speech as well as their writing skills with on site help and internet resources in improving writing skills. In 1995, word processing was a new venture, and quite rudimentary at best. Now, it has evolved into the standard in how we compose and distribute letters. With the creation of WordQ, the gap between disabled individuals and the general public has decreased and will hopefully allow for further advancement for individuals with disabilities.

I must say, blogging is still quite a mystery for me. I have quite a fascination with it. It's a great outlet to allow for personal reflection and hopefully allow input from the greater public. I am still trying to figure out how blogging is useful for educators. If only I could possibly find an educator's blog or an article about blogging in education. Perhaps then this mystery will be solved. And it's quite dramatic of me to call it a "mystery", but it truly is. I equate blogging to journaling or writing in a diary. To have one's personal thoughts portrayed to the whole world via Internet...it's sort of frightening.

For my classmates, let us ponder this: where will we be as far as technology when we become educators? I think I may have wrote about this in my previous blog, but the more we delve into the topics about education and technology, more questions form. Will we be replaced? Can we be replaced? If society becomes a homogenous society whose only relationship is between man and computer, maybe. But I think this is a false reality. Man requires that attention from compadres. Without it, what is life?