{"id":72095,"date":"2016-04-20T08:58:41","date_gmt":"2016-04-20T12:58:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/?p=72095"},"modified":"2018-06-20T11:41:16","modified_gmt":"2018-06-20T15:41:16","slug":"undefined-33","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/undefined-33\/","title":{"rendered":"He Used the Internet\u2014I Used the Encyclopedia"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was talking recently with one of my students who will graduate in May. He told me about his first year in college and began his reminiscence with: \u201cBack in the day\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

He\u2019s 25 and I thought to myself: Back in what day? Back in the day for him was five years ago.<\/p>\n

Most of his conversation centered on technology. He talked about getting used to devices such as smart phones, tablets and video games.<\/p>\n

He talked about how social media has changed the way people communicate. He talked about changes in the classroom, such as the use of graphing calculators, clickers, eBooks and web courses.<\/p>\n

Indeed, he has seen some changes.<\/p>\n

I have thought about our conversation many times and it makes me smile. I compared my first year in college nearly 45 years ago to his.<\/p>\n

  • He used a graphing calculator. I used a slide rule. I was a teacher when I saw my first calculator.<\/li>\n
  • He used a smart phone. I used the dorm\u2019s push-button wall phone. (At home we had a desktop rotary phone.)<\/li>\n
  • He played video games. I played board games.<\/li>\n
  • He sent messages via social media. I sent messages via the post office.<\/li>\n
  • He used email. I used the U.S. mail.<\/li>\n
  • He used a laptop or tablet to type his papers. I used a manual typewriter. I received an IBM Selectric as a graduation present.<\/li>\n
  • He used eBooks. I used hardcover books; every now and then a paperback novel.<\/li>\n
  • He took web courses. I took all of my courses in a classroom, face-to-face.<\/li>\n
  • He used clickers. I raised my hand.<\/li>\n
  • He used the internet. I used the encyclopedia.<\/li>\n
  • He searched the library holdings electronically. I used the card catalog.<\/li>\n
  • He used apps. What\u2019s that?<\/li>\n

    When did technology become such an integral part of our language and the way we view the world?<\/p>\n

    For someone in my generation, this is scary and thrilling at the same time. In the 1960s, I read and watched science fiction about the future. George Orwell\u2019s Nineteen Eighty-Four<\/em>, Ray Bradbury\u2019s Fahrenheit 451<\/em>, and Aldous Huxley\u2019s Brave New World<\/em> were books that made me think \u201cwhat if and what then.\u201d<\/p>\n

    Gene Roddenberry\u2019s TV show, Star Trek<\/em>, talked about a time in the future, such as stardate 2016. It seemed so far away. But it\u2019s here!<\/p>\n

    Roddenberry didn\u2019t quite get all of the technology right. But as I think about it, just like today, most of the conversations by the characters\u2014Capt. Kirk, Mr. Spock, Dr. McCoy and Mr. Scott\u2014were laced with tech terms (warp speed, transporter, food replicator, photon torpedoes, phasers, holodeck and tricorder, to name a few).<\/p>\n

    After my conversation with my student, I started making a list of technology-related terms that crossed my path. In just two weeks, I\u2019m up to 75 terms from \u201caggregator\u201d to \u201cZip drive.\u201d<\/p>\n

    I\u2019m sure there are many more that I didn\u2019t jot down. And, who knows, I just might embrace tech speak and utilize it in my conversations more often\u2026or not.<\/p>\n

    Nevertheless, I think scientist Roy Amara, past president of the Institute for the Future, had it right: \u201cWe tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run.\u201d<\/p>\n

    Rebekah McCloud is director of the University of Central Florida\u2019s PRIME STEM\/Student Support Services Program. She can be reached at<\/em> Rebekah.McCloud@ucf.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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