Technology Prioritization

For those of you that don’t know I am going to school for Instructional Design and Technology. One of my courses requires me to do a few weeks worth of my assignments on this blog I have created. With that being said let’s begin with the first entry.

This week I’m going to highlight the two technologies I use daily, which I could not live without and why. Finally, I will end this entry reflecting on the insight I gained regarding technology and learning. Let me start by stating the two technologies I use on a daily basis and I could not live without.

First and for most my Mac laptop, without this wonderful piece of technology I would not have been able to go back to school and get my degree. With having a full time job, raising a family, and trying to take care of a home I just don’t have the time to go to a ground campus for my education.

The next piece of technology I use every day would have to be my cellular phone. Now that I moved over 2000 miles away from all of my family it is great to be able to talk to them when I can. I also like the idea of always being in contact with my daughter now that she is a teenager and is trying to spread her wings and become independent. She is involved in so many after school activities that the convenience of having the phones helps us use are time more wisely.

The most power insight I learned from this weeks reading was from J. Bussell’s article entitled Technology written in 2006. Bussell’s writes that it is estimated that workers of today will have to prepare for two to three career changes in their lifetime. After reading that I started to wonder how many my daughter will have to go through. I understand people are living longer but technology is increasing and changing so rapidly that I believe this is contributing to the necessity of having two to three careers. Personally myself I will be on my third career after I finish this degree.

The second insight I learned came from Randal Carlson’s article written in 2006 entitled Instructional Technology. In this article Carlson writes that Performance technology, electronic performance support, and knowledge management are but a few of the emerging concepts that will influence instructional technology now and in the future. This statement by Carlson really shows how cutting edge instructional design truly is and what a long way it has to go. I’m quit excited to be part of this new form of educating people.

References

Bussell, J. (2006). Technology. In M. Bevir (Ed.), Encyclopedia of governance, 953–

956. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, Inc.

Carlson, R. D. (2006). Instructional technology. Encyclopedia of educational

leadership and administration. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, Inc.