Tech Talk

This week at the O-School, students explored different types of technology. We watched a video of kids, who reacted to older technology such as a typewriter, rotary phone, and record player. It’s amazing how technology has changed so much, now we have high tech devices smartphones, laptops, and e-readers. Humans rely so much on technology that it’s hard to imagine how we would function without it.

Together we reader the poem, “My Phone,” by Melanie C. a 6th grader from Twain Elementary. In her poem, Melanie uses personification, giving her phone human characteristics. My phone yells at me to wake up in the morning/ which is annoying. I can never get enough good sleep /because my phone talks at me, telling me to go use it. Melanie like many of us, are attached to our phones, they wake up us with an alarm, help us look up information, entertain us with games, and help us talk to others. But sometimes turning off or unplugging our technology, can give us the rest we need.

Below are drawings, photos, and brainstorms from students based on ideas about technology. I brought my tiny wireless blue mic and speaker, and students had fun reading their work out loud and hearing their voices echo on the mic.