Growing up and being in high school of the late 1970s, Apple was creating the first computer which my Dad had the means to purchase so he did. He encouraged us to use it and to learn from it because it was the future. Yes, I’m guilty of jumping into the game which I have learned to appreciate the old days.
Fast forward to 2020s when Artificial Intelligence surges in use when the majority of populations across the planet have a mini computer in their hand called a cell phone. It changes daily life from education to corporate to defense in the country.
If, I was an educator now, I would give my students a history lesson that they wouldn’t forget. The assignment on which a suitable subject must be researched on Encyclopedia Brittanica particularly with turning in your first draft written in cursive with a pencil on the life their grandparents lived before technology plus using magazines such as, “Time,” and “Life” plus “Readers Digest.” The final version must be typed on an electric typewriter dug up from the storage closets in the school.
My point to prove to my students is that one can learn about important subjects beyond technology capabilities such as the information found in libraries in books and in paper form of magazines and newspapers. Plus, the librarian being their “Super Hero,” of assisting them when needed. Teaching resourcefulness is as important as the subject matter. Natural use of human intelligence.
As with anything else, it’s important that one acts with wisdom and discernment on using technology especially intelligence creating artificially or naturally.
Yours Truly,
Leslie Elizabeth David.
The Magnificent Modern Mature Woman 