Talk with Roy Christopher.

The other day all of our AP English classes got to experience a video conference with Roy Christopher. We got to talk a lot about how technology is beginning to have a huge impact on us and how it is affecting our future as not only teenagers but also students. Here are some major points that I got from this interview:

-What caught your attention to technology?
     -A friend doing web design.

-What got you more involved?
     -Writing for magazines
     -Computers caught his attention, but didn't want to get too caught up in them.
-How can we reach digital maturity?

     -The more we know the better prepared we are on digital maturity. (Interesting question in which I agree with Roy's answer.)
-Are we able to multitask?

     -Multitasking is a myth. (I agree, it is very difficult for people to really consider them multitasking. Can relate form own experiences.)

-What is the end to all this technology?
     -The end is all up to ourselves. We don't have to keep up with technology or adapt to it.

-Other:
     -Went from BMX to media (interesting how that changed)
     -He thinks its difficult with all the distractions in technology (such as other sites)
     -Working on new books about how technology is changing and influencing people.

Comments:
     -I agree with a lot of what Roy was talking about and I think that for older generations to trust our younger generation, we have to show that technology is not only used in bad ways or just for sites like Facebook and all that, but for our own education. This class is a great example because we can show how much digital maturity we have in using it for our own education.