Due to the fact that I was exposed to standardized tests since elementary school, I have always had basic knowledge regarding the use of technology. I had the opportunity of having access to a computer at home, so my older sister would teach me the basic skills to properly use a computer. Later on, I took two years of a computer competency and keyboard skill class in my middle school to improve my skills. Throughout the years, I learned how to maneuver through Microsoft word and power point since I was asked to do assignment using this technology. As a senior in high school, I was enrolled in a dual enrollment course regarding computer competency. I noticed that when it came to excel, I was pretty lost. It was a device I never had to use and did not really think I would use it in the future.
Regarding with this course, I hope to sharpen my skills with Microsoft devices. By the end of this semester, I would like to know how to guide myself with Microsoft excel and other programs that I am not familiar with. I assume that this course will make me more knowledgeable upon a computer. Even though I will not work in a classroom setting, I am aware that my career requires me to input data on certain programs. It would be quite embarrassing if I entered the workforce without being knowledgeable of how to maneuver myself through well known resources.
Through a learning style test, I learned that I am a reflective learner. Actually, this perfectly describes the way I learn. I review my notes from a class on a day to day bases and usually will write the main idea of a concept. Also, I am a sensing learner by the fact that i prefer a set of steps rather than a free range of steps. I always knew that I am a visual learner due to my experiences in a math class, if my professor just said the steps- I would be completely lost, but if my professor wrote down the steps and saw step to step- I would understand it. I am a sequential learner as I never have liked it when professors just jump to a random topic. I need to know the connection one lecture has to another one.
