What have you had to “unlearn” (i.e. that only phones are for having conversations) in the past 10 years due to technological change?
Technology has been drastically changing over the course of time and my perceptions toward gaining information has transformed since I was a little kid. When I was little, I remember getting an assignment in school, and checking out books at the library to obtain information. So one thing that I have had to “unlearn” in the past ten years is that a library is no longer the primary source of information retrieval. These days, many forms of research is done online. When I am assigned a research paper, my first thought is not to search through the library catalog. Instead, I can search for scholarly articles in online databases or just simply search through Google. JMU even provides students VPN Client which allows us to access research databases from off campus. It is amazing how much people can do now from within their own homes. Soon, there may not be a need for libraries at all. If I have ever checked out a book from the campus library in the past four years, it was because I was required to do so for a class, but I know that if it were up to me, I would do all of my research online. Times are changing and technology is advancing. When we compare life now to how it was 10 years ago, it is amazing how much our normal daily routines have altered.
Thursday, December 3, 2009
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