Green Group 1

The technologies that I use at home are mostly for entertainment purposes. Like I said before I mainly use the computer to manage my music and other media. I have about ten thousand songs in my iTunes library which I play though a 5 piece stereo speaker system that takes advantage of HD surround sound. As you can tell music and how it sounds is a very important concern in my use of technology. Having said that I do use the technology at home for other things such as research, word processing, and school work, but my main focus remains on music. Other technologies in my life include my Black Berry, iPod, and Xbox 360. As I think about these technologies it makes me realize that most of them have little or no use in the classroom and could be even deemed inappropriate.

I suppose it’s obvious that my previous posts about technology at home and the role of technology in the classroom are completely different from each other. I believe that there are certain technologies that are appropriate for at home and ones that are acceptable for the classroom. This belief came to be shaped by the simple fact that my use for technology at home has nothing to do with my use of technology at school. They are two separate things and should remain so. When “entertainment”
technologies are brought into a school setting they only act as a distraction.

One technology that I use that serves a dual purpose is my BlackBerry. The convenience of getting my emails sent to my phone keeps me up to date with changes in class syllabus, class cancelations, or even just general information about events on campus through the daily digest.

Overall the majority of technology that I use in my life is either for entertainment or school purposes. Their uses remain distinctly different and rarely cross over.

Jon Scharff