Kaleidoscope 2

Kaleidoscope 2

Technology in schools is increasing greatly.  More and more students are being exposed and taught to use very advanced technology every day. I heard on the radio about a week ago that the McAllen school district is slowly implementing that all students have iPads in the near future.  They are starting by giving a certain amount of students iPads this coming year and increasing that amount every year after that until all have the iPads.  This to me was crazy.  I could not believe that they were doing this.  Those devices are very expensive and they cannot be trusting students with them, but I understand their vision behind the idea.  They want all students to become familiar with the technology that is increasing now days.  I believe that in the future more and more districts will start to do this.  In this day in age students are becoming exposed to technology at a very young age.  I was in college when I got my first cell phone, but now my cousins who are 8 and 9 already have iPhones and their personal computers.  They are starting to understand technology at a much younger age.  I’ve had them teach my how to work a couple of things on my computer.  I went to my wife’s school and I interviewed the keyboarding teacher, and she told me that she is very impressed at how quickly the students are picking up how to do some of the tasks she assigns them during class.  She is teaching them programs that they originally had set up to be at the high school level.  The middle school students can know make entire presentations on PowerPoint with special effects and graphics and can also make intricate formulas on Excel.  I still have problems doing some of these things myself.