Journal Entry Analysis

For me this journal entry feels a bit strange because it’s a trip down memory lane due to the fact I graduated high-school twenty-five years ago. Typically the students in my high school were between the ages of 14 to 19 with those in special education classes being allowed to attend until the age of 22 as it is governed by the Individuals With Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). In contrast, students attending college range from the approximate age of 14 to over 65 and beyond because learning has no age provisos. Dual enrollment lets children enter college at a much younger age that when I was in high school. As a result some of my very young family members and children of my friends are attending college at the same time as I am, therefore

The advantages of attending school with younger students are they are tech savvy savants, they see the world from a different perspective and they grew up in the internet era which effects how they connect with other people and the world around them in a manner that is quite different from what I have previously experienced. Many younger students have no idea what a card catalog or the Dewey Decimal System is but have advanced skills such as the ability to code, make web pages and do graphic design which is an advantage to them because technology rules our society and often governs our societal needs. Consequently their minds are constantly bombarded by a variety of mental stimulus. When I was in high school if you wanted information you had to look in a book, now an e-book can be on a phone, tablet, Kindle, computer or a Nook. I suppose the different age gropes attending college see the world from very different prospectives based on the decade they were born

Another advantage is the technological advancements have made so access to information, communication, learning and knowledge are easier to obtain. A perfect example is e-learning which was not even a notion conceived while I was in high school. Another advantage is the mass production of computers for general use which school incorporated as a means to distribute their curriculum to the masses. When I was in high school my mother had a typewriter. You’d clicked away at the keys praying you didn’t make an error, inevitably you had to use white out to correct any mistakes you made or if you didn’t have any you had to retype your assignment from scratch. When I was in the tenth grade we acquired a word processor. Later a computer came but that was not the computer as we know them today. Amazingly students in high school and college don’t have to type anything if they choose not to thanks to speech recognition software and apps, which is a nifty thing I find very advantageous to have. I would have loved to have had speech recognition in high school. Younger students are often full of ebullient optimism, fresh ideology and alacrity; furthermore, they are ready to take on a new adventure, develop their own identities and are happy to be free of stringent parental control. Older students are wiser they know what they have already tried and what