Toyama

This reading by, Kentaro Toyama brought up some really interesting points about the history of technology and our future. Being an education minor, my major and minor overlap in ways I never thought possible, however, reading this connected to me the education department. A class I am taking right now currently talks about technology in classrooms and the benefits and disadvantages. Toyama opens up with the quote, "Talent is universal; opportunity is not", the quote really stuck out to me because of all the different concepts and theories I am learning about in my other classes right now. One of Toyama's arguments is using technology to help benefit education, in some ways this is true, however, in other ways this is wrong. There are so many students in today's world living in different countries they are originally from, trying to learn a specific language while learning how to use technology at the same time. I think in many ways the world has become so reliant on technology and many people believe it it will fix our problems.

Throughout the reading Toyama continues to talk about and break down, "Talent is universal; opportunity is not". Giving comparisons of different two people in different areas of the world and the privileges they have. This opportunity she continually talks about is the internet, not everyone in the world has access to google. However, I believe there is more to opportunity than the internet, some people may be able to learn so much about the world if they put down their technologies for a moment, experience things the internet can't provide.