Dana Boyd video

Today we were in the computer lab doing a survey and after we completed our survey we had to watch a youtube video called Dana Boyd Handheld Learning Conference. This video was mainly about how the education of technology has been evolved over decades. Dana Boyd in this video is explaining how technology is used on an everyday bases from television to computers to cell phones, and now practically anything else you can think of. It has a huge impact on our lives but some say that it is just too much. Dana Boyd explains in this video how she thinks that technology is becoming too much and people are forgetting how the world used to be without technology on a daily bases. Many people do not go out and meet that many people anymore because they think that eharmony or match.com will fix it all, and maybe to some extent that might be true but I think that people are losing the value of living without technology as well as we gain from it. I remember I would have everyone’s number memorized because I did not have a cell phone and that was the only way I would be able to remember my friends and families numbers, but now that I have a cell phone I just save all the numbers and not even have no idea what that persons number begins with. But do not get me wrong I think that technology has its positive and negative sides to it because technology has helped our generation a lot but there is also a limit on how much technology we absolutely need. I had seen on the news that a car can now be driven with an iphone! An iphone are you kidding like would you really want to absolutely want to go in a car with someone and trust their driving because an iphone is steering the wheel. I do not know about everyone else but I sure would not want to put my life at risk like that. I just think that there is a limit of how much technology should be used and if it is a necessity in life. Also it is just throwing out some of the good stuff that needs to be taught instead of just electronically stuff because technology comes with problems and some stuff is just better off without those extra problems.