literacy technology

I was very young when my brother stole my mom’s car keys and turn on my mom’s car. My brother was even younger than me. I screamed as loud as possible till my throat hurt me. The car stopped coz my brother just took the keys out after we crashed the neighbor’s door. Mom and everyone in the house were our out. I don’t remember that much of what has happened but this built a techno-phobia particularly a car phobia. I did not think that I would drive one day after this. This incident opened my eyes to the cars differently.  The same thing happened about elevators. I got blocked one day in the elevator and till now I cannot use the elevator alone. What else I can remember about technology. Every part in my life regarding technology is so bitter. I was raised to be little caution of everything new. Everything that had buttons, red, green lights, and a bell. The bell sign, the first thing I see when I get into elevators, the same as the escape button in the computer. Briefly this is how it happened that I should learn things before I use them. I should see people how to use new stuffs before start working on them.

Therefore, when I met Mr. Computer for the first time. I was looking at him curiously. I felt so proud that we had at home. However, I was walking around him and watching its black screen and see myself smiling and playing with my hand in that screen.

Do not touch it Samah. My dad was shouting to me.

Honestly, I did nit dare to touch it or even open it. My dad covered that computer with a special nylon cover so the dust went get into it, when it was not in use. Since the day my brothers and I were waiting for.

It is the day when the black screen turns blue and pale button becomes red then green.

Give me some air to breath. My dad said. While we were too close to him when he opened it.

My brother was even closer than me. I was sure that he wanted to see how it worked so he would it turned it in when dad is not home.

My dad started his work on computer which was at that time writing a reports and agenda for meeting. There was no Internet since this happened back in 1990. I was looking as dad typing and I saw the letters on the screen. OMG. I could have never seen some as magical as this computer. I asked dad to write my name and so did my brothers. We had lots of fun looking at our names in the screen. Comparing myself with my son now would be so funny. When I asked my son to write his name on the computer he said:

I know how my name looks like; I do not need to write it on the computer.

It is really a big difference in how the world is working from 20 years ago.

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Technology now shaped my life differently. I look to everything now technologically. For example, if I need something I just search on Google. If I want to contact some one I just email him/her. If I want to watch a move I just go to you-tube .My life has changed. I cannot live one day without checking emails, facebooking