Using technology
Reported this week: This past weekend 13-year-old Morgan Pozgar was crowned the LG National Texting Champion.
Thirteen-year-old Morgan Pozgar, of Claysburg, Pennsylvania, was crowned LG National Texting champion on Saturday after she typed “Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious” from “Mary Poppins” in 15 seconds.
Morgan defeated nearly 200 other competitors at the Roseland Ballroom in Manhattan to become East Coast champion and then beat West Coast champion Eli Tirosh, 21, of Los Angeles, California.
She estimated that she sends more than 8,000 text messages a month to her friends and family.
I’m in awe of this kind of speed. Even as a technolody addict, I couldn’t get anywhere near this. It reminds me that one of the challenges we face is how we use technology in our work and ministry. We’ve been wondering this at LCET where we have always banned mobile phones from residentials - or at least tried - and are now thinking about what it would be like if we did the opposite and encouraged them to be brought…using them as part of how we communicate over the week or weekend.
When it comes to 16+ I wonder if there’s even more potential here. FE Campuses are ususally spread out and students are only there when they need to be. How could be use mobile phones in chaplaincy ministry - apart from the obvious of calling existing contacts?
So here’s my question. How could we creatively adopt this kind of technology into working in this area. Some churches have already begun to think this through. Check out this interesting piece on mobile theology from digital orthodoxy.
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