#0 Experiences in Technology

        Technology has always been a part of my life in some aspect.  As a child, I enjoyed learning how the different things around my house worked.  From being very young in a home without computers, I would mess around with our televisions and VCR players.  Eventually, around the early 2000's when I was in the early stages of elementary school, our family bought a home computer.  As soon as we purchased it, I was absolutely astounded by what it could do.  That being said, my parents didn't quite trust me, so what it could do for me was play pinball and a hockey game that my father had downloaded.  However, just from using these two games I became far more versed in how computer technology worked than one would expect.  As I got older, I lost some of this drive to learn about computers until I began working with Microsoft word and excel.  At this point all that I cared about though was being able to show off to the kids in my class that I knew how to make a smiley face out of different characters.  Due to the lack of drive, I never felt a need to build my own computer or play more computer based games.  While this does bum me out to an extent because I would have liked to learn those skills, I do understand my parents mistrust of my child self.

        From this class I would very much like to become more well versed in technology.  As I would like to become a high school government teacher, I want to keep the students as hooked on the lesson as possible.  I am well aware that I am not in the majority of people that are fascinated by the American government and its history.  Anything that I can do to get students interacting and interested in the subject matter is something that I would like to do.  I believe becoming more well versed in technology that can help in the classroom will aid in this goal.

        I find that being rather balanced between active learning and reflective learning is very accurate.  While there are many situations in which I like to learn by doing, I also very much enjoy thinking through my actions before hand.  This is especially true in regards to working on my own versus in a group and taking notes from a lecture, which I have always enjoyed.  Being balanced between sensing and intuitive learning, while leaning intuitive is also quite accurate.  As someone who is fascinated by government and politics, I find learning and discussing about theory to be very interesting.  I also was somewhat aware that I prefer to see information rather than simply hearing it or looking at words so being more visual makes sense.  Finally being a sequential learner is very accurate.  It is very difficult for me to understand a concept if I do not look at it in linear steps.