If Only My High School Offered Helpful Programs ...

Like I have mentioned in a few of my other blog posts, I'm not very good with computers. The everyday uses of word, excel, and power point are pretty easy, but everything else from software updating to typing I need to improve on. I still need to look down at the key board every once and a while to be able to type a full sentence, and it still takes me few minutes to search through my computers database if I want to make a style change on my desktop. I also had the opportunity to work with the program called InDesign last semester for an internship, which I conclude as completely impossible to work with (at least for me); and HTML codes are like a whole different language. Oh, and I just downloaded Firefox like 3 months ago....

The only thing I could think of while reading Cynthia Selfe's book "Technology and Literacy in the Twenty-First century" was that it would have been extremely beneficial to have a computer education program in grade school & high school while I was attending. If there was, then I would have entered college with the knowledge of using a mac instead of having to guess around until I got it right, using the trial and error method. I also would of been well adjusted to software programs that I clearly have no clue about.

If I remember correctly, there was only one class in high school that I took that was centered around computers and working with them. However, the majority of its lessons were just basic typing. We had to see how many words we could type in an hour long class, or something like that. Copying what's on a screen isn't that difficult either, and rather boring - so my skills weren't really progressing.

Today, kindergartens are being introduced to laptops. Therefore, creating & learning early, a new literacy of technology through computers along with basic speech and written skills. While our society and knowledge of these technological changes advance, so does our need & ability to teach it. We have to educate those who are lucky enough to be a part of this 21st century so that they can survive through it, because those of us who were stuck in the transitional stage are having a hard time figuring everything out.

I'm not a fan of everything being on the computer or at a touch of a button, but I am slowly beginning to adapt to it. Now, If only I could get my parents to do the same.