Hello, my name is Jane and I'm a 5th year student at the University of California, Irvine. My major is business economics and I'm minoring in Education. After graduation I plan to teach English in Korea for a year before returning to attend grad school to obtain my MA in Teaching and my single subject credentials for Mathematics. I'm currently taking a course in educational technology. In our first assignment, we were asked to reflect on our experiences with educational technology and I came to realize (thanks to Christopher James' comment) that my parents played a crucial role in my familiarity with technology in general.
I've had access to a computer at home since I was in elementary school. My first memories using the black and green screen computer was a math program in which each successful round resulted in a spaceship piece and a simple word processor-like program in which I used to log diary entries that I somehow password protected. My family started using AOL when I was in 4/5th grade and that marked the time when I got my first email address. Though my account was "child-locked", I was introduced to the wonders of email and chatting. Because my father was an accountant at the time, he was user of programs such as Microsoft Word and Excel and he taught me how to use them. That was when I started to "fidget" with the programs and experimented trying different things on the computer.
While students today have much different experiences with technology (seeing that my 1st grade student at church has a Facebook account), in general, I believe that my proficiency with technology was all thanks to my parents. They provided me with the resources and also taught me the basics. Sadly, many families today can't afford a computer for their children, let alone be there for their children as they are growing up (since money is tight and both parents need to work). I don't really know where I'm going with this but I'll leave it at that.
Until next time, BYE!~
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