The Importance Of Technological Literacy In My Life

Throughout my life I have progressively become more technologically aware and sound. Technology worldwide has changed significantly as the years pass by. With innovation comes adaptation to the new technology, which in turn leads to technological literacy or the familiarity with technology. I use technology daily so technological literacy is a necessity to succeed in college, remain entertained, and to be independent. Technological literacy is a skill I have developed since I first entered school and today I wouldn't survive as a student or person without it as society has become more reliant upon technology.

As a young boy, maybe four or five my extent of technology use was very limited. At this age, all of my communication was person

I was now able to surf the internet, use Microsoft programs and type things all sufficiently. In third grade, everyone had to do a project on a band or musician in which you liked and present it to our class. I made a PowerPoint about the rock band Kiss because I grew up listening to music from my dad's time, so all the classics; The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Kiss, ACDC, Bon Jovi, etc. Like most kids at this age I was very amused by the effects and sounds you could attach to each slide. So, to show off my technological literacy at the time I made sure to have as many of these special effects that I had recently learned how to use in my presentation. I made each letter come in one at a time inserted an applause sound effect at the end of my presentation and included various transitional effects from slide to slide. Throughout much of my presentation I heard the class go "Woahhhhh" in amusement or "How did you do that?" Creativity was always part of your grade in elementary school and this boosted my creativity up so as a result of my high technological literacy in comparison to my class it earned me a good grade. My technological literacy improved for academic purposes since Kindergarten but my use of technology for entertainment changed as

The purpose of this class these were teach students the best way to do research online, teach them basic coding/computer programming, and problem-solving techniques for technical problems in order to improve and increase the students' skills using computers and get the most out of the available technology in the school. I learned how to use the school database to find reliable sources, including some primary sources for research. The librarian of our school came into our class and gave as walkthrough of how to access the school database as well as the various topics that existed in the database. We also created a simple version of hangman after the teacher guided us through a lesson of basic coding. She then sent us on our own to make whatever game we had the skills to make. In technology I programmed a robot to fight other robots in these technology-oriented classes using Lego Mindstorms through the EV3 program. These classes prepared me for what was to come in high