Technology is always changing, and along with all those changes goes society. We always want the newest, the biggest, the best. It applies to cars, houses, and, now more than ever, technology. I just read an article from Apple yesterday that said they had exceeded their own expectations and sold 35 million Iphones, which was way higher than they had anticipated. 35 MILLION! That is almost 10% of the nation that now has an Iphone. That many people now have the internet, a phone, movie playing device, mini-computer at there fingertips 24 hours a day. Will this ruing society? Personally I don’t think that it will, I just think that it will change it. Will it be better than before? Maybe, but it might ruin it in the long run. I think that as a society we still need to interact with people face to face and not over texts and emails. We are becoming less of a social nation, we would rather text a person and have a full conversation with them instead of calling them to have the same conversation in half the time. If we have a simple question we would rather email a person than remember it and ask them in person. We take the technology for granted, take advantage of it almost. We need to slow down and remember what is important, each other. We need to listen to each other, talk with each other, and interact with each other. That is how we can avoid having technology ruin our society. Going back to basics, seeing people and not screens.

Today for the Palmer Symposium, I attended the session that was put on by the EDUC 300 class. It was a just a little presentation that was a little over 30 minutes long. All 5 people on the panel were well dressed and looked well prepared. They presented on the education method of “COME IN.” This states 6 different ways that teachers can keep control of their classroom and become a very good educator. In this presentation, 4 of the 6 presenters were very good. The good ones all used all the key points of being a good speaker. They all used excellent eye contact, commanded attention with a strong voice, and had excellent visual aids that went along with their presentation but didn’t read off of them. The other two weren’t bad presenters, but didn’t look as prepared as the other ones. They looked almost like they were over their head by doing the presentation. Overall, I would give a good grade to this presentation. It taught me a valuable teaching technique that will help me a lot in my career. It also showed me how a well thought out presentation can be put together and used in an educational setting.