Learning Shapes Your FUTURE

Learning is central to who we are as human beings. It affects our sense of self; it shapes how others perceive us. Perhaps most importantly, it may determine our economic future, because it is crucial to finding and maintaining a career path. These words are not just a rationale for pursuing a college degree. A coalition of business, commerce, labor, and educational leaders identifies the "ability to take responsibility for learning" as a subset of one of the four categories that most determine a person's economic success (Equipped for the Future [EFF] Standards, 2001, p. 17). "Virtually each new technology has altered the manner in which people live, connect, and interact. In this way, the age of digital technology is similar to other periods of technological advancement. It, too, requires society to adjust to its effects—increased pace of communication, increased availability of information, increased proximity to one another. However, the age of digital technology is also different, because unlike other technological inventions, digital technology is available to virtually everyone. Because technology has become so accessible, it has influenced how we learn. How has your smartphone, tablet, or other digital device affected how you learn?" (https://content.ashford.edu/books/AUEXP105.13.3/sections/sec1.3)