I agree with Prof. Leo's post. I believe that technology is very important in and out of the class room. Joe talks about the technology in the class room as being power or a new idea as Prof. Leo had said, but I believe it is more like a powerful idea. The reason I say this is because technology is a big part of every one's life. I don't think this ties into family values but being that it is talking about the education, its important in and out of a class room. When we talked about who had the power in a classroom it was a tough topic. No one really knew who ran it, because it all depends on who the teacher is. I remember we discussed when you have a substitute teachersor are the students in control, but when there is a tough teacher , the students know who the boss it. So being the the Internet or technology is power, in away it is. It shows us new things that we can't acquire in a classroom or in life without the use of technology.

When Prof. Leo gets into how while she was reading she thought about what we talk about in class, she makes really good points. When she brings up culture and how our world (meaning society) See's it. I believe that our culture is influenced by so many different cultures. The reason i say this is because we do things that were brought here by other cultures and people adapt to them. But is still believe not all cultures are taking in by people. I do believe that many cultures are ignored or disgraced upon as Joe talks about race and discrimination. Discrimination can mean so many things not just in race, and I believe discrimination is based upon ignorance. The reason people ignore some cultures is because they don't want to learn from them. This goes back into the classroom talk. Who really tells us what we can or can't learn? Who tells us why we should learn this way and not another way? I know we talked about learning to read and write in terms of "standard English". We had a deep discussion on that topic for awhile. So is "standard English" something that everyone knows? Of course not! We talked about this, and we even did our project on this so i won't go deep in to slang and all of that, but what is this trying to say about culture. Do we choose what we want to learn or are we in away taught what to learn?

Over all this is all about technology and how is shapes us. I believe technology is our new teacher but you can't learn everything from technology. I believe that people are taking technology a little to far because people use it everyday. What people don't realize is that technology isn't everything. Dose the Internet lie to us? I think it does. Not all the time but i do believe there are the lies. So if the Internet lies, why are so many people using it as a guide of learning? Well technology is good and bad, but there is no right answer to that. As I come to an end, I Want to add, that not only technology influences us, but so does culture and family. Not only in the classroom but on the streets as well.