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It's amazing to hear information like what I've heard from the diff versions of the shift happens videos.the rate that technology has grown and continues to grow at is beyond ridiculous... In months, weeks, days, and even minutes it's advancing a billion times faster than anything else in the world! The information that we can obtain In just minutes from millions of sources makes writing a research paper easier for us, compared to when students had to find everything through texts(and that was only past information not real time up to date info). Thank God for the Internet search engines! With social networking growing as fast it is it's almost impossible in 2011 to not know how to access the internet to get connected to one of the networks it's being used for everything entertainment (YouTube, Netflix), communication (Facebook, myspace, twitter), research (google,bing,ask,yahoo)....
I watched a couple of the shift happens videos and in the one posted by WingedAngel9 "shift happens original" they had said to ask the school board the question, "what are u doing to prepare my child to be successful in the 21st century society" which revolves around information technology..... That's something to think about because as the technology grows so should we but not by learning it ourselves(which is not a bad way) but it should also be something that is taught and aplied in the k-12 classrooms... Besides it's a part of every day life.

For example with the technology in the our phones today I just used my iPhone4 to watch a couple of the shift happens videos and the write this response after...think back to when you got your first cell phone it didn't do half as much as they do now, even cell phones 4 years ago couldnt do what they are caple of doing now and 5 years from now these will not be half as useful as the newer generation of phones. Mind blowing!