A Campus Of Our Own: Thoughts Of a Reluctant Conse

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A Campus of Our Own: Thoughts of a Reluctant Conservative In her 1996 essay, “A Campus of Our Own: Thoughts of a Reluctant Conversation”, Susan Saltrick describes her experience with technology moving from a positive thing to a negative thing. In her 39th year she began noticing more often that she was becoming middle aged. She found herself being grouped in with the “conservative of the new media scene.” She further stated that her views have changed to just say no to technology, and worries she may even switch political parties at the next election. She was not overly happy about this situation she found herself in, as someone that spent 12 years being a “cheerleader” for new media and speaking of the great potential that technology would bring for society in education and digital adventure to her social groups, and mainly accepting this information as reality herself. That is until her thoughts were provoked about the navigate affects of technology in our education systems, with everything digital, what is the point of having a physical education center. Saltrick also points out that the internet leads us into a lost trail into the cyber world that is both traceable and time consuming. How technology has affected Education is both a positive and a negative. Teacher’s can use this tool to connect to other teacher’s to compare research, work together on projects over great distances, to assist each other in the academic world. Thus, technology is the logical step in the education world, as they have always shared information, technology just made the means faster. She adds that most education institutions are utilizing technology to give an advantage to students. However, the major question is where does the funding come from these things? She observed that “enrolment keep going up at this school the state and local governments keep decreasing the
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