Did you ever use technology and sit back and say, "Wow, that is completely amazing?" This happened to me recently when I was creating a marketing piece for Albright's ADP and learned about QR codes. These bar codes are beginning to be used in marketing, where if you take a picture of the bar code on your smart phone and have free scanning software on your phone, the picture will take you directly to a website specifically set up for visitors who use this Smart phone function. Amazing!
I also recently was disgusted with technology. I have a problem that people can't be removed from their cell phones. Texting, emailing, even blogging are new ways of communication, however they all take place behind a computer, laptop, or smart phone.
The video on blogging made sense that technology and really the world has become "flat" (Friedman,Thomas-The World is Flat). As technology evolves, I am glad to see organizations like ISTE.org do exist to help standardize how technology is used within the classroom.
My personal experiences is that if you don't evolve with technology, you slowly become less relevant. There are things that I learned to do that I taught myself (GIS, Google Analytics, Google Adwords) that have give me more opportunities at work, because I took the iniative to learn them. If you choose not to evolve with technology, you become history.
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