One thing I learned from this chapter is that Computer class is no longer enough to teach children how to use computers. When many of us were younger, there were not many things to do with a computer. Today there is a whole wide range of things to do on a computer. My own grandmother calls on the phone to ask us to look up things for her because she does not understand how to use Google. Before reading this chapter, it never occurred to me that were not born knowing how to use everything a computer and or the Internet has. One thing that interested me was the fact that children think of a computer as a place to go for fun and not as a place to learn. Even though I use a computer everyday I never thought that my students would be using them.  Even just throughout high school for me, it was a special day to get to use the computers. It is truly amazing to me that one day when I am a teacher my students will use technology of some kind everyday in the classroom. Many of times I have read an eBook however, I have never thought about how I had to learn to read it. I always thought that if you knew how to read then you just knew how to read. I didn’t realize that depending on if you read a book, a magazine, a newspaper, or even a eBook, they are all different forms of reading and require knowledge of how to read them. Thinking about it now, I never know that I can highlight an eBook or that I can have the book read to me until I explore the eBooks features and learn how to use it. As much as I love technology it is sad to think that one day paper back books may no longer exist. 

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  1. Hi Chloe!

    I completely agree with your thoughts on the chapter and how technology has become such a crucial and important component to classrooms today. I do agree with you about the paper back books, I will miss the day that they make no longer make them! For myself, I personally dislike renting books online or getting ebooks, it is much more pleasurable for me to read a paper book. But we are all different and I think it is also what we are accustomed to. Thank you for sharing your thoughts!

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  2. Glad to read your post and Deanna's comment!

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