Shortly after moving out of my parents home, I was feeling more liberated and independent as ever, until Monday morning. It was a not so typical weekend, moving into my new apartment, one that was so physically exhausting. After moving for two days and organizing the evenings away, I setting an alarm for the morning, plugging my phone into its charger, grabbed water and headed for the bed. Before I knew it, morning was there greeting me with rays of light streaming in through my window. Not believing that I beat my alarm, I was up and showering, taking a little more time than usual and starting the day off right. It was starting to look like the perfect morning as I played with my dog, sipping my coffee and getting ready. But suddenly something seemed wrong.
While we have gained so much more accessability from technology, we have also begun learning from it. How different parts of it have shaped how we see our technology and how we gain knowledge. Over this semester we have learned so much from authors like Keedy, Burbules and Solomon on the design and intertextual ideals. But from life and various points of view that we have learned just how important technology is to people. "Much like we have learned,"One of the first rules of grammarwe learn is the use of proper punctuation marks," so have we learned how much technology really means to us (Solomon, 28).