After reading Ch. 10 in Adolescent Literacy and then reading John's blog about the chapter, I really started to think about how technology could potentially propel a class. I do think a lot of the ways we currently use technology are modernized versions of the ways we've done them before. But I think that the crazy technology flux of today creates the potential to do more things than we even know what to do.
I was strangely reminded of this time that I saw Nobel Prize winner Eric Cornell talk about Bose-Einstein Condensate. He told us about this new form of matter that they had created. (He also told us about accidentally head-butting the king of Sweden when he accepted the award.) And after he finished I had two thoughts: 1. This guy is so much smarter than anyone else in this room. and 2. That is really cool, but why? And I asked my boyfriend of the time (a physicist) my 2nd question because I was too afraid of Cornell's awesome brain to raise it. He told me that even if they can't do anything with it now, it raises the potential. It's a new form of matter, people will study it, things will be discovered. He told me it was kind of like the first trip to the moon. After you do it, then you go, "okay, now what can I learn from this".
I think technology is like this. It has advanced more rapidly than our ability to use it. I think in the future, especially as this new group of students emerges who have been immersed in it, the sky will be the limit.
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