New things

 Getting used to new things, it's hard for me.

But, it just occurred to me, that is as hard or harder for the young people.



This comes as a big surprise to me, having taught kids classes many times in the  two or three Summers  before this two-year nightmare.

 For me, recently, there is text to speech. I'm getting used to it. And I really like it now. But it still bothers me that grammar is inconsistent and particularly, that capitalization is nearly random.



I want to be able to look up on Google the differences between words with a capital letter and words with a small letter.

But this is impossible, at least as far as I know. It's probably not impossible. But I don't want to take the time to look it up.

Then there's cell phone itself.



I'm find myself, never really withou, except when I'm trying to sleep. t it

Just yesterday, a friend who would use the cell phone twice in 10 minutes, told me that it has really changed her life. I just smile, and said I think it's changed all of us more than we realize.

I used to tell my students, that we've changed technology, but what's really happened, is it technology has changed us.



And I still think that's true.

I think that's more true now, than I thought before. Well, what I really mean is I think with more certainty that it's true than the certainty I had before it affected me so much.











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