Blog 9 - Technology
This week my technology focus was drastically different. Instead of exploring new things, finding ways to be more efficient, and creating exciting projects and activities, I spent my time praying for the wifi to work. I was visiting Costa Rica this past week, as a chaperone with our high school students from Spanish classes. It was like a throwback for me to when I was in college, which was a looooonnng time ago. I was not able to use my cell phone much at all, because I do not have service outside of the US, and I had a difficult time getting any work done on my assignments for classes, because the wifi that was available to us was very spotty and very slow. It really made me think about how much I am able to accomplish at home, with the extensive resources that are available to me. It also made me wonder how much more difficult it must have been for the kids, and even the teachers in Costa Rica when the pandemic first began. I am so thankful for all of the technological resources that I have at home, and I realize that they are so easy for us to take for granted. Thank goodness I am home!
Sounds like a fun trip and makes me appreciate how much we have available to us and how we sometimes don't even realize how blessed we are. Thanks for reminding me
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Good afternoon, Kristen!
ReplyDeleteSounds like a really cool trip that also put things in perspective! A break from technology sounds like a dream but after a couple of days I am sure would remind me of how much I have to be grateful for! I can't imagine what that would be like to teach in an environment like that. Thank you for sharing!
I love this post! I have traveled out of the country several times and each time I am reminded of how much I take for granted. It becomes so much a part of our norm that we forget to be grateful for it and we don't realize how many people in the world don't have what we have. In 2019 I spent a few weeks providing teacher development in some rural villages in Cambodia. Technology and teaching had become so synonymous for me, I was thrown into a whole new world when I walked into classrooms that didn't even have electricity. We truly are blessed to live where we live and have what we have!
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