PIP Blog Post 4: Finding Opportunity

While I think and overthink what I do, I wonder how other students feel about the technology we use and what is given to us. Of course as a college campus we are all able to connect to the internet for 'free' not the case actually, we all pay a technology fee which is on our tuition bill that we pay each semester, usually upwards of 400 dollars. Now I wonder why we pay that much when everyone pays the same amount, yes it is cheaper if you look at it individually but in reality it is not. At a University, we pay for computers, insurance, room, board, and many other aspects of being in school. For some reason we are most often times made to buy unnecessary things we don't end up using. Why do schools not let us use our own tablets and computers to access information more readily available to us free online?

The use of technology exists on a plane where although students pay, we are limited in our use and fun. Often times we use technology that a school or classroom mandates we use or we face consequences otherwise, we pay more on top of more from what we already pay to take a class. This is all very underwhelming as we use technology on things we would never use it on, unfortunately sometimes having fun looking up things in a class that takes off points for using your phone in.

When I ask my peers one of them being my friend from High School Maria lets me know what her thoughts are. She expressed a bit of frustration, we all have to use the same technology to turn in homework's and think in a matter of speaking the same as the teacher. She for example is not given the opportunity to tale upper division classes because although she is a Junior is credits she is a Sophomore in years. Maria feel frustrated that even though she worked hard in HS to go a step ahead of others she is not able to take classes she should be able to take.

Technology is not the only thing Schools mandate, so many aspects fall in this category. We want to use our own technology to understand what we want to know and compare them to our already existing opinions.