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This I Believe

This I Believe. Education and Technology. By Pilar Quezzaire. It’s called Bronzeville now, because people started to move in from the suburbs so they didn’t have to commute to their jobs anymore. I left a long time ago, to seek my education in Massachusetts. .

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This I Believe

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  1. This I Believe Education and Technology By Pilar Quezzaire

  2. It’s called Bronzevillenow, because people started to move in from the suburbs so they didn’t have to commute to their jobs anymore. I left a long time ago, to seek my education in Massachusetts. I have always believed in the value of education. I grew up in Chicago, Illinois, in a place called “The Gap,” as in the gap between downtown and Hyde Park, two neighborhoods everyone liked. The Gap was viewed as wasted space; a place with failing housing projects, empty lots, and dilapidated schools. Education was a way out. Of anywhere.

  3. I wandered into technology as a teenager. It is the first place where I found a world to explore that was different from my own. I was exposed to people from all kinds of physical places I would not be able to see myself until I was old enough to get there. Technology wasn’t just a tool for me: it was part of my life, an extension of me. That is something that I share with the young people I work with. I was an anomaly for existing virtually: now, such is normal. If the trajectory of my life hasn’t told you yet, it’s clear that I believe a path out of any place where you are stuck is learning how to get out of it. For me, being a teacher is about giving children the opportunity to expand their worldviews. In many ways, all of us are “stuck:” in our attitudes, our perceptions, and our prejudices. The more of the world I see, the less I feel stuck, and that is an experience I would like to share.

  4. To conclude… …I believe that education and technology are beyond linked. Children today don’t see computers as tools, but as extensions of themselves, and they use computers in this way. Who picks up a pencil these days to write a letter, or a dictionary to look up a word? Because computers are the developed world’s pencils, we have to teach the proper penmanship to make them as useful as they can be. For me, computers and the world they opened were my escape hatch, just as my education was. Now, it is a necessary part of living in the 21st century. Technology is not just “a way out” any longer. It is the only way in.

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