Changes in Technology: It Started With a Pencil and a Pen
It all begins with a pencil and a pen; and before that, a crayon. Children's first literacy tools are those hand-held writing devices we all know and love and really could not live without even if we didn't have computers. The telephone and the television-with its accompaniments like VCR and DVD are also parts of the child's early arsenal of technology, used to speak, listen, and communicate with others. I availed myself of all of these tools, gradually learning how I could communicate with people at a distance. These early
tools required little instruction. Holding a pen or pencil and learning to write the letters of the alphabet required some instruction, and talking on the phone took some getting used to, but to watch television required none.
Technology impacts both my personal and professional life. Communicating with friends and family would be impossible without technological tools: at the very least a telephone. E-mail allows me to stay in contact with people regularly and cheaply. I have also begun to witness how computers become t
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