I remember having a computer for most of my life. My parents purchased me a Commodore 64 computer that I would be able to play games on. The games were either from a cartridge or a floppy disk. From there my family purchased a x386 computer that had both DOS and Windows 3.1. As a child computers were mainly for games. In middle school I began using them for word processing, encyclopedia, and was an active participant in chatrooms on mIRC, Prodigy, and AOL. Even though technology quickly progressed through the 1990s my reasons for a computer did not.

As an adult I mostly use the computer for work. At work my computer has an Intel Core 2 Duo at 3.00 Ghz with 4 GB ram and is running 64 bit Windows 7. I use the computer for email and calendars, maintaining my eboard (school webpage about me and my class), word processing and documents, lesson planning, record keeping, and for social media. I also use Spotify to manage my music that is played in class. I am not sure what else I'd like to be able to do with the computer. It has been able to meet most of my professional needs.


At home, I do not have a computer. My home computer has been replaced with my iphone. I am able to email, word process, listen to music, sync photos, video edit, and anything else I can think of with specialized applications.

I was trained on the Macs with floppy drives when I was growing up through middle school. We never had a computer at home and my first full time use of a computer was at the college library each night. When I began working in 2002 we had desktops in every classroom. As mentioned in the previous post I now work with a smartboard and all students are 1:1 with iPads.
My personal computer is a little dated, but I'm using a Gateway laptop with 4 GB DDR3 Memory, 500 GB HDD, Intel-Core i5-2430M, with blu-ray disc, and a 15.6" LCD screen with a webcam. My school has discouraged photo copies and we instead convert files into PDFs or downloadable images for the students device, while at home I have a 3in1 Scanner, fax, copier. My home computer is used for games, bills, research, entertainment, and work. I'd love to have network access to my work materials while at home. This is in the works. The obstacles of sharing data have already been answered with 3rd party drop boxes or clouds. This allows access wherever and whenever.

George you could also share files through google drive as long as your school has a gmail account and you have one at home as well. I don't use Cloud storage very often but if you have lots of pictures and music that is also a great option.

There were no home computers when I was growing up, we did have an Atari game system but that was it. It was not until well into my adult life that computers came into use both at home and at school. My first home computer had less that 1G hard drive.
My current school computer is a HP ProBook 15" with 500G hard drive. it has a i3 1.7Ghz processor. It also has a dvd burner, multiple USB slots, a SD card slot, 1 HDMI slot, a port for connection to a projector, a built in camera, and a jack for headphones. It is also both wireless capable and Ethernet capable.At school we are connectd to network printers and have LCD projectors for use with our computers. We have a portable camera that can be connected by HDMI.
My home computer is an ASUS 17" with Intel i7 processor, dvd burner, multiple USB slots, a SD card Reader, a HDMI port, a firewire port, a built in camera, head phone jack,is wireless and Ethernet capable. At home I have a multi-function printer connected to my home network.

We did not have a home computer until I was in high school. The only thing I can remember is it was a Dell, and we used dial-up for internet which was really slow. We had access to a printer and scanner a few years after we got our first computer. I can remember printing off assignments for school and scanning papers for college.

Currently, I use an iPad and and a Macbook Pro 2.4 GHZ Intel Core 4GB at home. I use my iPad for surfing the internet, downloading iTunes, and checking email. I use my MacBook to organize my online lesson book, keep track of my calendar, send emails, and grade assessments. I also have an iPhone that does everything my iPad does but with a smaller screen. I don't really have a need for anything else right now.