A pervasive communication environment allows us multiple ways to communicate with enhancements such as text, audio, video, and voice. We have the ability to access, create, and share information in multimedia...(JUST NAME IT DOC...anywhere, anytime, anyone). I don't think they invisioned all of this technology when the "Back to the Future" movie was made in the 80's.
When some of us were middle school students, information finding in a library was time consuming and we followed certain guidelines on how to transfer info from the book to our note cards via handwriting. When I returned to college, work caused a time constraint, and I was dreading the experience of having to return to the library and to spend a lot of time trying to find an article and photocopying it (no more note cards at this point). However, to my SURPRISE, time constraint became more manageable since analog media such as paper magazines newpapers, and books are now accessible via new communication technologies (Research & Article Database at MLK Library website). In a group project, students can share research findings by emailing the article .pdf documents to each other instead of meeting at the library to work on note cards together or exchanging photocopies.
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Wow, I had totally forgotten life before internet databases!
I remember in middle school having to look in the card catalogs, and how cool it was when our public library got its first computer search engine.
I can't imagine writing a research paper now without the help of these online databases - the extra resources give my papers more depth and credibility.
I also remember getting my first email address at age 11 - my friends and I used to email back and forth because we thought it was so cool that it would appear instantly right after we hit "send."
It's amazing that kids today have grown up with the amazing technology we have - I can't wait to see what the future holds.
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