Communicate 1.1.1. Definitions of Communication Quest

• How have your individual communication skills changed as with the innovations in technology?
• They have changed greatly. I remember, not too long ago, when we did not have a phone connected to our hip. Sometimes I think people need to turn it off and put it away as if it never existed. People need to feel connected all the time and I sometimes wonder why we did not feel that way before we knew we could. 
• Texting is an amazing thing. It allows us to communicate and receive communication when we want, in our time. For those of us who cannot control the urg to text constantly have destoyed parts of our lives. I watch students forfeit good grades, knowledge and awareness of what is going on around them becuase they refuse to put the phone down. They are too young to know what they are giving up and by the time they do, it may be too late to  recover. Of course some would not be excellent students with or without the phone. The phone is just the means to become a poor student.
• How have advancements in technology altered classroom communication? Will these change further?
• As spoken above there have been more personal distractions in the classroom because of the phone. 
• We need to learn to teach differently, the phone and personal distractions will now be a part of our lives. The trick is turn the personal distractions into a integrated learning device in our classrooms. Where students once could not live without them, we have to make it, the teacher cannot live without it. Turn in on a dime. 
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