Growing up with (or without) Technology

So my experience with technology growing up seems very limited to the amount of technology that is out there for students now-a-days. In school I didn't have a cell phone, until my junior year of high school, and it was the size of a brick without color or internet. That was the day when cell phones were actually used as cell phones. This was when there were no signs posted to silence your cell phones, movies only asked you to be quiet, not to text or make calls during the movie. Teachers didn't have to threaten students to put ipods, ipads, or cell phones away before class started. In school we had computers, we played Oregon Trail as a way to learn about people coming west. I learned how to type on a type writer in my typing class in 6th grade. I remember we were typing a paper in middle school and a girl accidentally highlighted her paper and deleted it, the teacher didn't even know what to do. The undo button was created, but seemed out of reach of the limits of our knowledge at that time. The simplist things that I take for granted now when it comes to technology we so far fetched when I was in Middle School and High School.

It is amazing to me how much students, even if they are underprivlidged, have access and understand how to use, sometimes better than me, these days. Just the fact that they are able to use their cell phones to text answers to questions, or interact on live websites instantaneously creates unlimited access to the world of academics.