One of the biggest differences between middle school now and twenty years ago is that there is a lot more technology present. How had technology changed the way you learn in middle school versus a few decades ago? How do you think it will be different in another twenty to thirty years?
Respond to the following prompt. Your response should be at least three paragraphs in length to get full credit.
One of the biggest differences between middle school now and twenty years ago is that there is a lot more technology present. How had technology changed the way you learn in middle school versus a few decades ago? How do you think it will be different in another twenty to thirty years?
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summer bishop
8/30/2013 12:37:13 am
Technology changed the way we learned becouse now we rarely use our books. now we do powerpoints an online things, but we still do worksheets. I think technology will be different in twenty to the thirty years by us using computers, ipads, an electronics for what we do.
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brooke simmons!(:
8/30/2013 12:37:26 am
Back in the olden days (like 20 yeaes ago) the was nothing. the phones were huge! school sounds like it was difficult! the information was very scarce. all the class had was chalkboards. the wasnt dr. google! how did anyone look up anything?
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HAILEY MCCULLOUGH
8/30/2013 12:39:42 am
A few decades ago we just came out with phones ,computers, telivision, and camras. Now we have things such as i pads, iphones, labtops, and also internet. Internet is a major thing today, they did not have internet a while back they only had computers mostly for working and sending letters, Now today we use computers to play videogames, cheack our facebook status and roam around and find something enteresting to do. We are so lucky for what we have .like 2 centerys ogo they were learning the baseics of a computr in our grade. They had never seen such a thing as tecnology. To then an comoputer was the best thing they had ever seen in there life and they were curus of how to work such on object.
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brooke nease
8/30/2013 12:42:24 am
Like 20 years ago we would have looked up information in books and thesourases. People did not have computers or phones! they had bag phones!! Then technology can around and helps us alot!! It helps us find stuff easier than it was 20 years ago. It helps us do our blog prompt. If we didnt have technology we wouldnt be doing the blog prompt right now.
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Nikolai Stacey
8/30/2013 12:56:27 am
what i think would happen in 20 or 30 years that middle scoolers after i finished school is that kids wont be use ing paper and pencil like that have now or 30 years ago.I think they woul computers and flash drives to do thir work and save it.also i think they would use computer to teach kids insted of useing teachers. The only people working there are people would the tech support guys ,the person who discipen the kids and a person who assien the work to do on the computer.i think kids would be emailing thier homework to there techer and have less time to do it in . like the teacher would assien homework and would have to email it to her in 3 hrs after they get home.
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kalin pittenger
8/30/2013 12:58:34 am
School is different now than it was 20 years ago, because there is more technology now. We no more things now than we did back than. we have more thing to learn about. Our work is hared to do than it use to be. technology help us with alot of our work.
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madison brown
8/30/2013 12:59:03 am
20 years ago middle school was way different then it is now. The technology has changed, there is computers to help us learn. also there is things called clickers you can use and it grades the work for you, so middle school as deffiently changed from 20 years ago. Back in the day tey didnt have technology so they had to learn from straight out of the books. today there are things called projecters theachers use to teach us almost everything. 20 years from now it will be different technolgy will up grade alot.
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Alexis Wells!!(:
8/30/2013 01:05:06 am
i think that if we would have been at school a couple of years back when they did not have tchnology i think things would be alot harder.Because now they can show us pictures and everything and back then they couldnt show students all that.Its so much better and esier proploy beacuse that was the olden days now its the newer days.
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8/31/2013 09:04:26 am
Technology today is different from 20 years ago. Technology today is different in school because we use different technology. In school today we have promethean boards and we have computers to do our homework. We also have something called an Elmo and a lady bug. On the promethean board we can write on and look at websites.
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Cooper Hesling
9/1/2013 07:05:12 am
Twenty years ago there was not much technology in the class rooms. Now a days we use technology every minute in the classroom. I think technology in the class room is a positive thing for the class. Technology is change the way teachers teach and kids are more involved in the lessons.
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James Davis
9/2/2013 05:52:45 am
Twenty years ago, they couldn't use technology. People had to write everything out by hand. Everyone had textbooks to lug around. They had to use chalkboards, so chalk got everywhere. If your parents couldn't help you, then you had to wait until the next day to ask your teachers.
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Kiandre Westmoreland
9/2/2013 06:39:29 am
Technology changed the way we learn in a big way.Back the no one ever knew what a projector,or hightech cellphones,or a laptop.Back then all they used a typewriter.And now its all hightech and futureistic stuff.And i can only wait to see what the future holds
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Brett nettles
9/2/2013 11:28:21 pm
20 years ago we had nothing but chalk boards and if your lucky maybe a big screen projector.Technology has changed so much over the years.from chalk boards to dry erase boards to electronically boards for learning.Many Kids That are born now a days didnt even experience chalk boards or even dry erase boards all they know is technowlodgey. The schools have more ways to express learning now.With a click of a mouse you can explore the Internet with educational sites.We now Know so much more than we did 20 years ago.I may have not experienced school 20 years ago but I've been told what it was like.
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raul Garcia
9/2/2013 11:38:43 pm
technology is better today than ffrom 20 years ago. we have better computers. we havea permedian board which was probably really difficult to obtain. twenty years ago i bet we didnt have that much tech.
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Nick Allen
9/3/2013 04:03:29 am
Decades, 20 or 30 years, ago technology was not as advanced. The things used to reasearch things were textbooks and the teacher's knowledge. Cell phones and things like that were not very existent in those times. These years were when my parents were teenagers. The only phones they had were the big ones that were the size of a banana. The teachers had to know who all the people the students learned about were and what they did. The reason behind that is because instead of children using their cell phoes to look it up, they asked the teacher. If the teacher didn't know the answer, they used the textbooks.
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Devin Scott
9/3/2013 04:48:42 am
Technology has changed like crazy! There are still new inventions coming out today. Schools are even doing work on computers and tablets. Around twenty years ago there wasn't any technology for schools to use. I can't imagine what the future will be like.
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James Pratt
9/3/2013 06:29:12 am
Technology has took this world by storm because it wasn't ok get on your phones and look this up, it was write this down in your notebook. Half the stuff we have didn't exist back then. The computers went from the size of the school, to the palm of your hand!
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Valencia Sledge
9/3/2013 06:56:41 am
In the next twenty to thirty years I think there would still be technology so that the people form the future could know how it work or how it helped us from the past. Like instead of them having to walk or dive along way just to make conversation they can just call that person. In the last decades ago there wasn't any technology and usually when you need to know what something is or mean we would have to go to the library. Now in this centry we have tons of technology that would help us look for anything. No more going to libraries or other places to know what anything mean.
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Alex Knight
9/3/2013 06:58:59 am
School would be really different because we would use textbooks more. We would use books every day and have to study out of the book. We would have to copy everything on paper because there is no printer. We would have to find books in the library with no computer. Every thing would be different because there is no technology.
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Nahan Knight
9/3/2013 07:19:34 am
School has changed alot versus twenty years ago. Now we use computers to do work or the work comes from the computers. Twenty years ago we didn't have computers for school.Twenty years ago we used textooks for everything.
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Reilly Wilson :P
9/3/2013 09:01:20 am
Twenty years ago was extremely different than today. Today we use lots more technology to do work like iPads or answers on Yahoo. Twenty years ago we took more notes and we didn't use the computer to figure out what homework we had.
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lyndsey burns
9/3/2013 10:55:08 am
20 years ago there was no technology at all. Now days there is computers, phones, ipads and all that kind of stuff that people never had back then. In school they use technology for internet access. Twenty years ago all they used is textbooks.
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hailey brabham
9/3/2013 11:39:32 am
20 years ago , nobody really even knew really what technology or any of that was. All they ever really had were books they had to use or go tot he library to find things they needed now people can just get on the internet , and look up anything they need.
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Ka"Dashia Roper
9/3/2013 11:45:00 pm
How i think it would be different in another 20 to 30 years from nowis that they did not have any phones(cellular)back in the old days.they probably had to go to eachotherhouse to talk.They couldn't call because they did not have a phone.I think that it would be very different from now.There will be more stuff than we have today.
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Andrew lewis ;]
9/4/2013 12:54:56 am
20 years ago there was not that much techology for students to us. back then they didnt have what we we have know. it was probley very hard to do with out techology by are side.
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Dakoda Sage
9/4/2013 02:44:57 am
Well 20 Years ago students had to go to the libray an look up stuff in books now here allyou have to do is go to a computer an look it up like that.Plus with the lunch students had to bring their own money to eat lunch instead of now where can go online an pay it an then come into school the next day enter a number.Instead with the promethan boards teachers had to get up in front of class an write it on the board. this is the differance between now an 20 years ago.
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Noah Nelson
9/4/2013 02:45:48 am
In the pat 20 years lot of things have changed.Like thair was no porjecters.Teachers had to show it on the bords.Also thair was no intercomes .
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Cassie Thames
9/4/2013 02:47:26 am
Well technology has changed alot past Middle School. In Elementry school it was really nothing. You didnt have tablets or Ipods or Iphones all you had was a old computer to do your work on in technology class. In Middle School you have a bunch of technolgy such as Computers, Laptops, Ipod, Iphone,Ipad,Tablets, etc. there are plenty of technolgy now then it was back then.
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Aaron rupard
9/4/2013 02:49:34 am
In the old times people used to go to libraries to find things. But today people have smart phones or tablets to get to lpace to place at a time. If you were to live back then you wouldnt know who was calling to you. You would have to pick up the phone and see who it was. You wouldnt have a caller id.
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rose moore
9/4/2013 02:49:48 am
Back in the olden days o dont know like 20 years ago we bearly had good technology. There computers almost took up the space of two rooms sometimes even more. They didnt have any phones well they did, but those were as big as two hands stacked on top one another.They also had to look in the almanac , or dictionary to look something up. The schiools had to do everything with pencil and paper. I dont see how teachers did it.
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ethan chavis
9/4/2013 03:57:48 am
I think technology will change evn more in the next 20 years more than it has changed in the past 20 years. With that said there aint no tellin what type of technology will come out in 20-30 yaers from now.
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9/4/2013 03:59:51 am
Many years ago they use chalk borads and books. They learned slower but I bet they learned better with fewer distractions. Since they didnt have this technoloygy we have today. They had many schools close together because it was so hard to maintain so many students.
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Virginia White
9/4/2013 04:00:18 am
Twenty years ago technology was very differnt! There were no cell phones, and the computers could fill a whole room. They didnt have computers or permithian boards that our teachers use today. They used there textbooks, and a chalkboard.
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Jordan Sikes
9/4/2013 04:01:10 am
In most schools today, there is a lot of technology involved with education. Phones can be used sometimes, Promethean boards are in the front of the class, online textbooks are at the click of a mouse, and teachers use computers to put in grades now. Twenty years ago, your class was lucky if they even had a projector. Now, if your class has a projector, it's considered "old school".
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Hannah Berry
9/4/2013 04:01:17 am
Twenty years ago there was bearly any technology what so ever. Much less in schools! Now that is all that we really do use, like seriously. I think that it has benifed us completly. In almost everyone of our classrooms at ECMS have these boards call permenten boards, back then like twenty years ago they used chalkboards.
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Nick Stahl
9/4/2013 04:01:56 am
I believe that technology has changed what happens in the classroom imensly.With promethean boards we stopped using chalk and dry erase markers.With the E.L.M.O. the teacher can just scan a worksheet and write on it.Instead of copying it down on the board.
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haley arnsdorff
9/4/2013 06:33:02 am
Twenty years ago technology didn't excist as much as it does today . People couldn't live without technology today . most teens are on there electronic all day . Twenty years ago people used chalkboards today we use prementhan boards . Twenty years ago we used books way more then we today , Today books are barely touched .
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JUNE SMITH:)
9/4/2013 07:17:37 am
Twenty years ago there was not much technology in the class rooms. Now a days we use technology every minute in the classroom. I think technology in the class room is a positive thing for the class.
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zackary stuart
9/4/2013 07:40:39 am
20 years ago our parents didn't have the technology like we have today,they had chalkboards,regular pencils,nowhere near the things we have today.We have tablets,ipads,iphones,samsungalaxyX4. If they had those things when they were little they would be smarter than than Albert Einstein.If we had their technology we would probaly be really desperate for the people to invent technology.
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Matthew LaVoy
9/4/2013 07:45:23 am
Thirty years ago, people would have to read from textbooks and write the pages out of the book. There would be chaos for those today using technology. Technology benefits in so many ways today and that may will be the future. A famous quote to start us off is " If our ancestors lived without something, then we can survive without it either. "
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Dixie Thrasher
9/4/2013 07:54:41 am
In twenty to thirty years I think that society will have got more advanced in basic technology and more effecient in medical care. What may seem like the awesome new gadget today, is going to feel more like a typewriter to the next generation.
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Alison Gnann
9/4/2013 08:37:33 am
Twenty years ago there wasn't technology like there is today. I don't know what I would do if there wasn't the technology that there is today. It would be a lot different than it is now.
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Becca Velasquez
9/4/2013 08:55:06 am
I feel so blessed to live in the 21st century. School has become more advanced. We have more resources like technology. Better yet we are able to have the technology with snap of our fingers. On the other hand at the time of my parents school and society was very different due to the lack of technology. If you think we are advanced now wait until about 30 years from now?
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tangelia Williams
9/4/2013 10:17:33 am
Over the years today society has change. We have come along away from the past to now. From the technology we use to having the first Black president in the USA. Even to cost of living has change.
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Carlos Gutierrez
9/4/2013 11:18:05 am
technology has changed a lot over the past few decades. These changes have changed the way we learn in school.
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Luis Perez
9/4/2013 01:18:41 pm
Technology now is very different from twenty years ago. Twenty years ago there were only the first computers that were Tandy and first generation apple computers. The way technology has effected middle school alone with education has increased greatly. Now a days we use technology 24/7/365 all day every day to sum it up. Some students parents could tell how our education presently has increased greatly.
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Sarah Harden
9/4/2013 01:48:52 pm
Back then had to be a struggle for some. The technology then was very simple in the class rooms. In the library there were not many or any computers. The teachers would use chalk boards for teaching. Along with the chalk board, teachers had to clank the chalk erasers together to get off chalk dust. You could definately not be able to have tjings we have now.
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Richard Seagroves
9/4/2013 10:32:31 pm
The think the tech back then was very different than the tech we have now. Computers were different than they are now. There wasn't no such thing as websites. you would look a word up and it would tell you the definition.You only had a computer if you were wealthy and could afford it.
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carnisha solomon
9/4/2013 11:38:26 pm
I think it will be a lot more diffrent. i think that because tecnhology now is geting more upgrded because there are more people who makes diffrent things. Tecnology now i was up graded then what it was years ago. I for one might come up with something diffrent it wont hurt to try. Anyway what do you think will happen in the future.
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Dylan NeSmith
9/4/2013 11:39:56 pm
The way technology has changed the way we learn in school is we dont read or do work as much. The way we do work now is completely different from the way we do things in school nowadays.
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Noah Truitt
9/4/2013 11:41:22 pm
Technology has changed over the years.Computers were just envented and the only way to have one was if you were wealthy.Now today every classroom,house,and building has a computer or telivision.
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Daisha
9/4/2013 11:43:28 pm
I think twenty years from students.Wouldn't be coming to school they will have technical stuff.Like today there's a robot that students that are at home are in another country that can show their faces in the class room.Twenty years from maybethe student teacher will be robots you'll never know
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Nicholas Anderson
9/4/2013 11:44:14 pm
back in the day my parents read a lot out of the book . They dident get to get printed paper or do the worm up with a click of a bution or iny of that. it was a lot harder to then than it is to us we kids now a days have every thing.
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Buck kirby
9/5/2013 12:49:12 am
Back in the old days, about 20 or so years ago, they didnt have as much techology as we did know, The phones, was probly about as big as a shoe, and i know that, because my grandma has a phone thats that big! going to school, was probly alot more easyer, because they didnt have to go look things up, they could just ask there teacher, and they would tell them.
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Saira Cribbs
9/5/2013 12:54:48 am
20 some odd years ago technology was not as popular and most people didn't need them to live daily . cause shoot man i need my phone . I don't know how they did it . The use of technology has changed alot over time more advanced and usefull we use them like every day in our lives now . They help with school work ... Or just to text and talk to friends .
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Sean Yekel
9/5/2013 12:58:09 am
I think back in the old days people did learn as much as we do today. My parents dont know much of the stuff we learn today so I know it has channged. It is more advanced we have all kind of electronicks to help us. They did not have that back in the old day 20 to 30 years ago. They did not learn as much as we do today.
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harley smith
9/5/2013 12:59:29 am
when i was younger i didnt have technology i was made to play outside we didnt have tv or phones so i grew up to haveing nothing to this day in time .my dad is a country hill billy so i had to actually get dirty almost every day my dad would not let me go to school un till i was 5 he didnt want me to grow up at all.
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Lauren
9/5/2013 01:02:17 am
Technology ha schanged the way we learn today in many ways. These days we use technology for almost everything we do. When we were younger, we didnt have all the technology we have today, so we set in the classroom and listen to the teacher teach. They wrote on the white boards/chalk boards for every thing we had to do. Today, teachers us the projecters for everthing, and everything is connected with the internet.
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Alonna <3
9/5/2013 02:07:30 am
Twenty years ago was the grown up time period. And babies started coming along. And now since 20years have past and young kids our age aint thinking about nothing but phones , games , anything that glows . I would have to say it changed a whole lot. Because grown ups didnt come up with phones , some had no t.v's , telephones , . They really just had type writing things .
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nikeera gadsden
9/5/2013 02:09:48 am
I think technology has changed the way we live alot! Today we have alot of things that in the other decades people didn't have. I think that if we didn't have books we wouldn't have technology the way we do know. Also with technology we can learn things we don't know faster. Technology is a great invention!
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Kaylee Brown
9/5/2013 02:28:23 am
20 years ago, we didn't have technology. We had to write everything down with a pencil and a piece of paper. W didn't have cell phones where you could tex, play games, get on facebook and more. Now days, on most phones you can do anything you wan't.
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Dezire Cooper (DC)
9/5/2013 02:41:55 am
In 20 years ago is way different from now.Back then they had paper,wood,and a board.Now we have technology so good that you can have a electronic board.Our electronics board is called Permithean board.Really 20 years from now is going to be better than ever.Teachers only had a ruler and board to teach with.Electronics is so big we can do homework on phones.
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Edwin Scroggins
9/5/2013 02:48:29 am
Technology has defunantly changed since 20 years ago.over the years the advanced technology has benn upgraded many times. Lots of people can't even keep up.
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JACOB*TUFTS
9/5/2013 02:48:46 am
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Trey Hopkins
9/5/2013 03:38:43 am
So far technology has come a long ways since the 60's and the 70's, phones and computers are more advanced. Headphones have gotten smaller and better.So I think in 20 or 30 mores years, technology will become its very best. Phones may become see through, and maybe computers will become the same way.Gaming systems will gain the power of its own power source. Televisions will change more that anything most likely.
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Javan Carboney
9/5/2013 03:58:11 am
Technology changed a lot since twenty years ago. I think it effect how we learned in a strong way. Without technology many teaching styles could not be possible. In every class you see atleast one peice of modern day technology. In the following parragraphs I will get more in depth of this subject.
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Tiffany Labonte
9/5/2013 04:05:21 am
20 to 30 years ago they didnt have the technology like we do today.
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Kaelyn Jackson
9/5/2013 07:24:27 am
Today is much more different from the last twenty years. Today is way more advance with technology. Back then you couldn't use cell phones or computers because they didn't have them. Just imagine what if was like back then compared to today , and just imagine what it will be like in twenty years for know .
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9/5/2013 09:22:22 am
Technology now, versus how it was 20 years ago, has improved tremendously. Not only is there more technology, but the capability of the technology we have today is outstanding. Unlike 20 years ago, we have tablets, more advanced computers, laptops, and phones with the capabilities of internet access, social networking, and G.P.S. The biggest difference between now and twenty years ago are the mobility and speed of our electronics. Not only has this changed the way we live, but it has also changed the way we learn and are educated. I strongly believe that technology has changed the way I learn today.
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alyssa waters
9/5/2013 09:22:40 am
20 to 30 years ago technology was very different. They had to use textbooks and other things like that. They couldn't just go to a computer and look something up. They also had to use chalkboards and blackboards. But today we have smart boards and all of that.
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Adam Daugherty $$$$$$$$$$!!!!
9/5/2013 11:28:25 am
Technology has change our generation.back then people couldn't go on google and look things up they had to do 2 hours of looking up things in giant books. Today I think our generation is awsome cause we got everything in just a click of a button.
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Cianna Nix
9/5/2013 01:33:35 pm
The way we use technology now is a lot different then how other people used it a few years ago.
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Jeremy Kicklighter
9/5/2013 09:02:06 pm
Technology is changing the way we live more and more every day. In 20 or 30 years who knows what we could have! Anything is imaginable, we may have flying cars, interactive robots, or even a cure for cancer. I think technology is really overtaking our society. As you read you'll hear some negative reasons as well.
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Cole Long
9/9/2013 08:05:38 am
Technology is a big part of our lives today. It is a major part in school. Back then there was hardly any technology ,but in 20 or 30 years from now school will be 100% technology.
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sandra greenbaum
9/12/2013 11:14:52 am
Wow look at all these computers & technology everywhere! In this present we have so much more technology then 20 years ago. Now we have computers so we could look up something for school in 2 seconds. Almost everyone in school has a phone that they could listen music to & plays games. Its so easy to do stuff now with technology, just think how hard it was to look up something 20 years ago.
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Monique Allen
9/17/2013 05:29:34 am
How i think it would be different in another 20 to 30 years from nowis that they did not have any phones(cellular)back in the old days.they probably had to go to eachotherhouse to talk.They couldn't call because they did not have a phone.I think that it would be very different from now.There will be more stuff than we have today.
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Payton Dewitt
10/1/2013 12:55:22 am
Technology now is way different then 20 years ago. Technology now is ysed for facebook youtube twitter and school.Now you have google and bing to help you. Back then they didnt have google they didnt even have internet. They had to use text books and notes.
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Juliana Ortega
10/3/2013 12:45:36 pm
Twenty years ago there was not much technology in the class rooms. Now a days we use technology every minute in the classroom. I think technology in the class room is a positive thing for the class. Technology is change the way teachers teach and kids are more involved in the lessons.
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chase stone
10/4/2013 05:29:10 am
20 years ago there were not a lot of technology. Some peoples parents didnt have nice phones and computers. If they had a phone it was really big.they couldnt get help from computers because there wernt a lot of them.they had phones that u couldnt hold bc they were big.
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Dylan o'neal
10/4/2013 01:19:42 pm
20 years ago was not that suficticated.Now stuff these days is high tech.Technology is better now.It's amazing how it's changed.It changes everyday.
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