Feelings about technology in education range from zealotry, to ambivalence, to abject fear and suspicion. Technology serves so many functions in our modern society, many of them critical to our continued progress. But it also changes dramatically from one year to the next- we can neither guess exactly what applications will develop nor grasp their implications, let alone pay for all of them. Lastly, we know technology can be utilized in ways that are beneficial and creative and also ways that harmful and destructive. So all of these attitudes stem from legitimate points of view.
As a professional technologist who grew up at the dawn of personal computing, I am a proponent, having seen how it has transformed the world around me, and how much capability it has given me professionally. As a parent, I am concerned as I have a daunting responsibility to guide and protect my children as they grow up surrounded by an evolving world of technology and ideas.
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