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I grew up writing first with pencil and paper and eventually pen and paper. Writing with a tool (such as a pencil or pen) is fun- each of us sorta becomes a master of our tools; don't we? For example, we have our own specific and unique handwriting.

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When I was in elementary we use to have computer class every second day and I remember our computer use to be big and thick. I use to play skateboard, I don’t remember the website but there use to be so many games in one website and us classmates would always challenge each other to beat scores.

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Pen and Paper makes me think of when I was in junior high school and we would write to each other. Exchanging written paper with classmates and communicate like that while we weren’t allowed to talk in class. Especially being separated with my bff because we talked a lot lol

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When I grew up computers were HUGE! (Like literally big in size) They were still being developed and took up a lot of space- anyone remember those? Now computers and small and even called "Laptops" because they are small enough to fit in our laps! I think our society relies on computers a lot- we all have smart phones and use them all the time for everything. Even our classes - our writing tools are keyboards and ipads! I think in many ways computers and keyboards are great- but we need to use them in moderation too.

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Social Media has grown so much over the years. We were barely into Social Media, WiFi was more hard to use than it is right now. My friends and I use to take turns if we wanted to be on Social Media but now all of us are so connected to it we don’t even share anymore.

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The pen and paper I have been using is to write what I have to finish at the class. We all have to finish quick sometimes and broke my pen when I was writing trying to be quick lol

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When I was in elementary I never used pens but when I went to my high school year I started using pen because I didn’t like using pencil anymore.

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My experience is the same as Nora. The website is www.mostfungames.com (it has changed overtime) I used to always play water boy and fire girl with my bff. Our teacher used to give us some lessons on the computers where we have to type certain things, also - in high school, our biology teacher made us practice on how to use PowerPoint and Word by note taking when we do some experiments.

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Social media has allowed me to connect with people from my past and present in such positive ways! I am able to stay in touch with family members so easily because of social media even when we have such huge geographical distances between us. Sharing news and messages for safety on social media is helpful too. The power outage updates this morning for example were helpful to receive! Even sell/swap sites - I see these as a positive thing- because its a form of re-using and recycling and this helps our environment. HOWEVER I see the damage it can do also. Its addictive! Its time consuming and cyber bullying, or language shaming takes place so publicly. :(

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We used to use a huge computer when we were growing up in arctic bay and we would write some notes to our note pad, we would share only 1 computer because there was only 1 in our classroom. We would take a lot of picture on computer cam

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My favourite way to communicate in writing was chatting with notepads and write what I need to say just so many of my classmates or teacher won’t find out. For example, my best friend and I use to be classmates since we were in Grade 3 up till Grade 10. I use to write what I need to tell her and give the paper to her for her to read.

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I was not allowed to have social media but when my bff got fb, my parents decided to create an account for me when I was in Grade 4! (Omg! Lol) I could only access my fb with my parents supervising. I only knew about Fb at the time, but when I wasn’t allowed to be on my fb - my parents would let me be on my iPad watching movies on Netflix.

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I used to write in my journal faithfully daily for about 10 years. I don't do that anymore but I do enjoy taking my thoughts and changing them into a story. This is a fun way for me to get my feelings out and to share with others.

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When we were growing up there was only bebo and facebook, I didn’t know how to use facebook but I knew the bebo how to use it, but nowadays facebook, twitter and instagram are most used in this generation over the past couple years. We are all connected to the social media since there is any kind of internet now, even we can use starlink and can be used when we are camping

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My favourite way to communicate is chatting through messenger or texting. When it comes to ‘professional’, I really enjoy writing emails. “Back then” (feels weird saying that) I had like 4 or 5 Nintendo DSI and I would get lots of visitors, we would be chatting using the DSI and that used to be so much fun

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Change for sure has taken place and IS continuing to take place

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Change for sure has taken place and IS continuing to take place

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Change is happening. When I think of the impact of change, I focus on my daughters. Here are two examples: One of my daughter's uses a computer to better get her ideas out and to share her work with others- for this I am grateful. She can quickly do her work and be present in the moment when she uses a computer as a tool. But then I think of social media and I don't want my kids to have access- its moves too fast and there is so much danger out there.. I want to protect them from that forever.

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My favourite way to communicate is chatting or video chat with the family members or with my close friends. And when I was growing up, in my class I would write a coloured papers to my friends and one of my teachers and I would give it to them as a ‘message’ they would write it back to me, it was excited when they write back to me lol

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Good Impact - For my perspective for good impact is we get to see whoever we want whenever we want to since social media is growing so much. We also get to hear our families who are living far away whenever we need to contact them.

Bad Impact - Sometimes people are so use to be on their phone they forget who they are hanging out with. Sometimes people even use their phone when they are eating which is taking away good lunch or supper time.

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Everything’s all about technology now. It is both, good and bad. For example; a few good things about technology is you get to see family through electronic devices, you can set up your bank card on your phone so even if you lose it - you still can use it, and another good thing about technology is, you get to hear back from organizations when you apply for something.

A bad thing about technology is children are so into stuff like this now, when children does not get this specific electronic device, they instantly stop communicating and just stay in their bedroom until they get that device. There’s a lot more to this

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Technology has changed my both daughters, they would cry over their phones and always have to have internet just for the cartoons or for their games, when we were growing up we didn’t have to fight for the technology and we respect our friends or any other kids, but now a days I would notice the kids in this world has so much change because of the technology, when we were growing up we used to play outside all the time and we used to have so much fun.

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From kindergarten to grade 9 I mostly used the Pencil and paper to write. And in grade 9 I started using the pen and from there I like using the pen more than the pencil. -Macy

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In elementary, as a class we also had a computer class, so as a class we did a challenge of playing games with the same website where there are so many games in 1 website. And we used to challenge with typing like there was this typing game in the website so we used to challenge each other to finish first with the typing. -Macy

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When I turned 9 or 10, I remember there was bebo and msn. So with my cousin when I created msn account for myself, i used to chat with my cousin with the msn account and it looked so cool. I think the msn doesn’t work anymore , and the bebo seems not to be working anymore. In my teenage years I created a facebook for myself, so I decided to ask few of my friends if they want a facebook account so they agreed with me, so it was after school in the afternoon few of my friends followed me to my moms home and I created a facebook account to few of my friends. So this year my friend remembered that I created her a facebook account and she told me that her facebook account is still her facebook account from 10 or 11 years ago. -Macy

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Favourite way to communicate in writing/typing

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Favourite way to communicate in writing/typing

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From grade 9 and from grade 10, I used to write in a notepad for my friends as we did not need to talk, and that’s how few of us we used to chat. Just so our teacher will not find out we had a way to give it to them without our teacher noticing that we gave our friend a notepad. Funny thing is when a teacher finds out the teacher will read it out loud.

My favourite way to communicate is chatting through messenger, texting, and through Email. If any of my family or my girls side of family wants to see them I/we video chat with them. -Macy

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Technology is being used so much as of these past few years and still going on with using technology. Back in when I was a in my preteens, I had to use the landline to contact with my friends or family. Good thing about technology is that we get to video chat with our friends or family. Or communicate with friends and family by chatting through messenger.

The bad part is when a child is crying over the phone because they aren’t allowed to used it anymore and as of now a days they prefer an expensive phone just so they can try an look cool with the phone. With my experience in the past 2 years where I lived, I watched a 12 years old wanting an expensive phone and not what was bought, that part I did not like what I saw just because the phone that was bought was cheap and that person should’ve just been thankful. -Macy

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I remember in high school we would pass small notes to communicate with other students or bff of who we like who would want play with. Or ask if we can visit after school to there place. In class we wont allowed to talk while working on school papers. Or no talking while on a test.

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I remember computer class was to look through online chat room or bebo when having free time. Those computer were big size. Before free time we would practice typing how to use keyboard learning how to use keyboard was fun as will.

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Social media I believe started in 2000 or around there, since then they would be on there phone nowadays and that sound pretty sad to be honest. I remember using bebo but barely use it and when facebook came i finally created one in 2008 and since then i had it, that was like 15 years ago. (whoa) things have change over the years, just using the phone and barely watching what is around us more.

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My favourite way to communicate is by phone messager on facebook, texting with family nowadays, since we are not in the same community anymore but some we are in the same community. Once before phones came along i use to write my cousin by snail mail we use to write letters to eachother and that was fun to have in my memories. And in school there would be buddypals I believe from different community in down south. That was fun too.

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Impact of change

Technology is being use so much that its pretty sad to see but it’s a good thing as will, since you can communicate with family and friends when you are not in the same community.

But when there was not phones, we would write letters or use landlines to communicate or go visit them by plane during holidays if possible.

Things have change for the good and bad.

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When i was in elementary school, we used to write each morning on our journals and learn how to make sentences, while we write on our journals, we used to draw on top of the paper before we wrote on it.

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In junior high we used to have a computer class where we were taught how to type without looking at the keyboard, but after completing the typing we used to use the computer on what we wanted to do with it.

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When i was growing up, I didn’t really know anything about social media until i started using facebook, i only got a facebook when i started owning a phone maybe when i was 13. Social media has a very big impact in everyone and it is the only way we can see family now that is out of town.

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My favourite way to communicate is probably through text/messenger or either call with the person on a video call, I don’t really like communicating on a paper or writing what I want to say. Writing on a paper to communicate is too slow compared to typing on a social media

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Good impact- social media has taught us so much, meeting new people, seeing family we never met in other communities or cities, making new friends.

Bad impact- people tend to argue, not getting along and start hurting each other feelings because social media is the “only” way to start an argument when people can work things out in person.