Reflective Blog #4

I actually prefer composing documents long hand first and then transferring my work on-line. I feel like I can get my thoughts across better when I am handwriting. This also makes proofreading easier because when I transfer my work to a computer document, I often catch my mistakes in grammar and spelling. I have no issues with creating something online first, but personally I prefer handwriting initially.

All of my phone numbers, notes and half of my calendar are on my phone. I do keep a day planner at work because I like to be able to see my week at a quick glance, rather than having to go into my phone and look through it one day at a time.

I don't necessarily join meetings via laptop or tablet. However at my day job, in the sales world, I have attended web-based conference calls where I will be on the phone and watching a presentation through the internal network.

Unfortunately, I am probably too connected. When I'm at work, I keep my Internet Explorer up and my phone is right by my side. When I'm at home, I'm really only on the Internet on an actual computer for school, otherwise I just use my phone for everything. The reason I started out with this being an unfortunate thing, is because I could put my phone down more. I can't say how many times I've been with my friends and we're all on our phones playing games... with each other. It sounds ridiculous, and it is. There needs to be a lot more face-to-face interaction. Sometimes when I am at home, I try to leave my phone in my room so that I can enjoy the company I have and not have my phone attached to my hip all of the time.

I am not sure if I can specifically put a number on how many things I can do at one time. Maybe 2 or 3. At work, I always listen to music when I'm recruiting or on the phone. Sometimes I'll be watching TV, playing games on my phone and talking to whoever is in the room. But then sometimes, I can only do one thing at a time... like reading or writing with no distractions.

Generally I don't play video games, and I haven't played a computer game in probably 15 years. If I am at a friend's house and they have a Wii or XBox Kinect, we will sometimes compete in those type of games. Other than that, I just play games on my phone.

Since I was born in the mid-1980s, I fall under then Generation Y category. Even though I wasn't submerged in technology growing up (because it wasn't available) like today's students are, I do believe I have a firm grasp on today's technology. I think it's very important for teachers to be up-to-date. Not only are today's students well-versed in technology, the world itself is making technological advances every day. These children need to be prepared for when they get out of school. Old teaching methods just aren't going to cut it anymore, so teachers, especially older teachers, are going to have to make some adjustments.