Benefits of Technology

     Technology has allowed for the world to communicate faster or more effectively and with more people. We use different communication tools everyday to communicate with each other for a variety of reasons. Texting allows us to let someone know we are in a meeting when we miss their call, emailing allows us to send out a mass memo to all the employees of a company and teachers can use them to give homework assignments and conduct lectures. Without them we would miss many oppurtunities such as learning online. Without these communication tools I may not be able to finsih a degree in Teaching. I have 3 children and work a full time job. I don't have the time to or someone to watch them for me to go to a class on campus. Having an exampus makes this possible for me and other people like me. Sometimes we have to take a different approach to learning to actually learn something new.
     With all of this technology we have to be careful with what we allow in our computers environment. We have to treat technology like we do ourselves and be careful of what we trust to come into this environment, I have had a couple of experiences with malicious software on my personal computers. Viruses that have attached my computer because I viewed a webpage with a virus embedded or viewed an email with a virus attached. The world of email has become advanced enough that it can detect some of these viruses but like any human virus they change. The people who make them change them and while it doesn't seem like anyone would take their time to rin millions of computers they do. Last year I started a new job working with a technology company. My computer at work can't really have many filters because we shop on the web for products everyday but to minimize any viral attacks, every computer is set up with protecfion that will detect files that have viruses. In the future I plan to protect against this software by having anti-virus software that on the computer to detect and rid of any worm or virus. I also plan to limit the websites that students can visit to websites that I choose and know to be safe.