The Chronology of Technology

I was in school back in the dark ages! I remember my school getting new computers for us to use when I was in fourth grade which would have been in 1984. It was so exciting to get to learn how a to use a computer. They were Apple computers and the monitors were huge but so cool! The screen was black and the text was green. I remember the first thing that we got to play was The Oregon Trail game. It was a very basic game that taught us how the pioneers made it across the country to the West on the Oregon Trail. I remember also playing Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego.
I don’t remember learning very much about technology in school. I never had a computer in my classroom growing up. In high school I took a keyboarding class where we used computers but in school that was really the only access we had to technology. My teachers would use overhead projectors which was about as exciting as it got.
I had a word processor when I went to college the first time. Ricks College had a computer lab but I didn’t know how to do more than type a paper on the computers. I didn’t get an email account until after I got home from my mission in 1998 and I just got a Facebook account in 2009. I didn’t know how to do a Power Point presentation until a year ago when I came back to college. It’s pretty sad but after spring semester in Doc Waters' class I feel that I actually know something about technology.
Now, my children have had a totally different experience than I did with technology. They have a lot more knowledge about computers and technology. They have computer class for three months out of the year but my children are able to pretty much find anything on the internet without very much of my help. Their teachers use computers for many of their assignments as well as for class presentations. It’s a totally different world than the when I grew up. I am excited for the technology that we have now and for the tools that we have at our fingertips to enhance our lives.