Don Tapscott Reflection Blog

I agree with Don. Our generation is more technologically advanced and know how to utilize our computers, ipods, and phones better than our parents. I think this leaves us to an advantage because our world is becoming more internet based than it was before in a much faster pace. There are the people who have negative comments saying that we aren't very bright, lazy, and self-centered, but they are wrong. We actually do learn more through the internet and are making waves. As students, the internet helps us in so many ways. We can get information for history projects, download books onto our Nooks or Kindles, and get help with any homework problems through virtually any social networking site. We are setting the tone for a faster and better future. Right now, like Don said, we are becoming the teachers instead of the students. Parents are turning to us now to help them with technology because they don't understand it as well as we do and they want to know what we know. Speaking from experience, we got a new laptop and my father had absolutely no idea how to use it. He turned to me to help him set up his own user and even though he's had an email for years, he still comes to me for help on how to do new things. Even though the "new" things I teach him how to do seem like basic things you learn by yourself, I have to realize he didn't grow up with the technology that I grew up with, so it is difficult for him to catch on.