The+internet...

 My husband works for a large company whose business is computers and thus, we have had a computer in our home since the PC Juniors became available. I remember the sidecar memory enhancers that my husband HAD to have as well as the floppy discs that you pulled in and out to load operating systems and games (my daughter loved Spellicopter and my teenage nephews loved King's Quest). If you wanted to save something, you pulled out a BLANK floppy disc....but you had to "format" it before you could save. heaven forbid if you had a power blip! It was a sad moment.  That first computer was VERY different from the technology we are using today. My husband telecomputes on his laptop which is so thin that I am still amazed it has a keyboard - his main working tool. I have a very powerful desktop in my lovely little office and I spend a LOT of time in front of a 21 inch flat screen monitor - because my eyes get tired at night! My computer is FAST and has a back up system integrated so that I will NOT lose anything! I have high speed internet service and even a Google Android phone with internet access to my Gmail almost instantly. I guess I consider myself to be pretty connected; however, I am not even close to those who are at the front line of the technology age. Given the changes I have observed in the last 25 years, I confident that we must embrace today's technologies; I am also confident that we must teach children differently than we were taught. How all this looks....now that is the question!!!!!!!!!! 