While I like technology to not be moving so fast as it is right now, one thing that caught by eyes as I was reading the textbook was when Michael Moore and Greg Kearsley (2005) wrote "as the use of [DE} spreads, previously disadvantaged populations, such as rural and inner city students, can take course from the same institutions and same faculty that were previously only available to students in privileged, mainly suburban areas," (p. 20, para. 1). This is true because if I wanted a college degree and lived 2 or 3 hours away from any nearby college and has no transportation or ways to get there, I would be very happy with online courses.
It's hard to believe that we have only gotten so advance in technology for the last 15 years or so. I remember still using dial-up in 1997 for AOL, but now it's DSL and FIOS, Cable Internet. We used to use antennae for TV, now we have HDTV. Many colleges and universities have their TV channels for students to watch and learn. It's hard to imagine most of these things are happening so recently. It's the way technology is moving and how we are changing along with it.
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How true. Look at mobile phones. Ten years ago they were big bulky things that either had to be attached to a car or were the size of quart of milk. And all they did was make phone calls. Now we listen to music, text, surf the web, read email, find the best traffic route with the built in GPS, make reservations all on something that fits in a pocket.
ReplyDeleteOur computers used to have MB of storage and now we can get terabytes worth at minimal cost. We watch TV online, while in another window we work on an assignment and text in yet another. It really is hard to comprehend what the future holds!
Computers are getting smaller, telephones are getting slicker...I love technology, but for some reason I would still pick the 1970s and 80s, or ever early 90s, versus today.
ReplyDeleteI love how things were back then.