I was never very technologically advanced growing up. I did not get my first phone until 7th grade (which today would be an outrage considering 10 year olds have phones). My first account on a computer was my school email being in the sixth grade- never having that oh-so precious AIM account middle schoolers boasted about. And, I did not have unlimited …show more content…
Abud, he went on to becoming Michigan’s Teacher of the year for the year of 2013 due to his increase of technology in the classroom. Not only did his life change after that year, traveling to every school in the school district and even meeting the President of the United States, but he also changed my life. To this day I still think of him as one of the most influential people in my life due to his extensive knowledge and tech-savvy attitude.
Technology had changed me for the better ever since I enrolled in chemistry that year. It had changed the way I look at my education and the work that I have put in.
Mr. Abud had taught me that there are thousands of resources at our fingertips that most students are not familiar with. He taught me efficiency in both the classroom and life with simply a little device. Today, things like the proper way of emailing a professor or setting up a Google document with four other peers is simple due to my knowledge from that class. My way of learning has been molded and created into something that is much more complex and advanced than somebody who does not have that same education in technology and I can attest that those strengths had come from Mr. Abud. Without him, I would be lost in this technologically advanced world we live