Leave Your Cell Phone at the Classroom Door

What is the value of technology when it is being vilified in another culture?

Technology is used everywhere. In a culture where technology is belittled it gives people less opportunity to use certain resources. In a third world country where computers aren't found in every household, technology wouldn't be as in high demand as it would be. Usually people who don't use technology in their daily lives such as, computers, cell phones, or internet access are people who aren't exposed. My parents were born in the era where televisions were black and white. So they are new to this whole technology mumbo jumbo. They are new users in the internet world. It's one of my limited opportunities to tell them what to do. They have questions from how to navigate facebook and friendster to how to pay bills online. Their skills are improving but my seven year old cousin seems to be more comprehensive to using the computer than my own parents. But with practicing to use it they've seemed to accomplish using skype to talk to my relatives in the philippines, comprehending more about navigating things online.