After reading the blog from coolcatteacher and your response, it allowed me to put things into prospective. After thinking about it for a while, I realized that one persons balance of technology might be completely different than another person’s balance. Another thing that I realized, with no disrespect, is that you still have questions about technology and how to incorporate it into your life’s many different avenues. Some of your questions about forests, ponds, camping and walks were based around many of the questions that I had. I just thought, based on your role as a technology guru, that you knew how to balance everything with technology because you have been involved with cutting edge technology for so long. As I look at this issue, many people build the technology that we use every day; and they are OK with that. Many people use the technology that these people develop on a normal basis, but it doesn’t run their lives; and I am OK with that. And there are many people out there that are not interested in new technology, i.e. the people that still use the phone that has the rotary telephone; and they are OK with that. We aren’t asking them to become part of the digital and electronic age. I guess, each individual has to be secure in their own connection with technology and set their own balance to what they feel safe with. As a parent and a teacher we must realize that our children and the students that we teach want to do exactly what we are doing. So if we are on a cell phone in school or while flying a kite, we can’t reprimand our kids if they want to do the same thing. We need to remember that our kids learn what to do by imitating us. So this goes for the use of technology as well. If you live your live through technology, don’t be surprised if your child does to. Life is to short, so we need to make connections that are lasting and memorable and live in the moment. Even though the invention of the cell phone was great and allows us to be in multiple places at once, we lose many memories of what is going on because we aren’t actually in the “it” spot. Don’t allow technology to take over our lives. Don’t allow it to control you. Live your life and enjoy your life. What is a good balance for one person may not be a good balance for another person. Learn, love and enjoy!!!
BLOGGING 205-A Balanced Life
April 3, 2008 · 3 Comments
Categories: Change · Learning · Meaning · Parenting · Relavance · Technology
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Steve Ransom // April 10, 2008 at 12:03 pm
Great conclusions, Steve. Everyone’s needs, situations, jobs, interests, and morals and values also differ. So, lead a healthy and balanced life that works for you. My only contention is that as teachers, we cannot have no interest for current technologies. That is not okay. Teaching, learning and technology go hand-in-hand today.
Vicki Davis // April 16, 2008 at 8:44 pm
Hey, I was playing with a new search engine and found your post. Do you know that if you hyperlink to my blog when you mention my name, that I will follow it back to your blog and respond. This is called a backlink and it is how bloggers find and respond to people who are writing about their things.
A couple of tips (of course you didn’t ask, but here goes.)
1) Break your blogging into paragraphs, it makes it easier to read.
2) If you quote an article, hyperlink to the article so that your readers may read it too.
3) If you mention someone’s name, link to it.
4) I got a little confused by the “you” were you writing this to someone, to me (coolcatteacher) to your teacher? Who?
You have a lot of potential and very nice blog here — welcome to the blogosphere!
mrsdurff // April 17, 2008 at 5:48 am
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