Academic Carrer

I came to the American School six years ago, and since then technology has not been very efficient. I still remember my first year in which we had computer class, but they only taught us the most basic stuff. It was until about a few years ago that the school changed from using regular blackboards to a more new and efficient one. There have been a couple of projects that requiered the fusion of technology with textbooks, but it is a shame we do such only once a year. In Computers class, we had to create webpages, which was really fun by the way. Although the school has enough technology to blend it with our studies, for some reason or other they have not done it.

From what I personally remember, last year Mr. Whitten did a very cool project with us that required us to tape a song about World War. It had to fulfill certain requirements, but the assignment was technically a song. We did in pairs and resulted to be very fun. Mr. Whitten is one of the very few who actually has included technology in our education, because the reality is that most teachers base all their works on books. It was in seventh grade in World Geography were I felt technology lacked. We were learning from a textbook all the countries, but it was then when I thought that there are many fun ways on the internet to learn them, such as quizzes or puzzle games. The teachers might have not done it this way because she felt it could turn into a mess and students would play rather than learning.

Overall, I think we have only done one or two assignments, and this really makes me mad. It is not possible that a school such as ours has not been able to integrate technology properly with our studies. I believe that in the future there will be a much better connection between technology and studies, because every day new apparatuses are created and therefore things will be much better. The good thing is that I learned what need to be learned, but I really cross my fingers that future activities become more fun with the help of technology. te quiero muchooo, yo mas:)