Michelle Weeks

I recently had the pleasure of interviewing Michelle Weeks. Michelle is the Director of Residence life here at Montreat, as well as the Residence director of Anderson Dorm. She was so kind enough as to tell me her views on the integration of faith in learning and technology. Considering the fact that it is such a broad topic, Michelle chose to share her views and geared them more towards technology. She especially hit on popular communication websites such as facebook. While she agrees that technology and facebook are amazing resources, they arent necessarily as great as people make it out to be.
Michelle agrees that yes while technology can be very useful and is very enjoyable, there are some negative aspects about it as well. Michelle believes that our society is often deceived by these supposed "new ways of connecting", when in all reality we are hardly connected with the two hundred and something list of friends on our web profiles. We say we'll stay connected but there is not much truth to that at all. And another part that we are often deceived by is the fact that we say we are staying connected with our friends but in all reality it doesn't leave the computer screen. The real community is no longer existent.
As a christian as well, I would say that I agree with Michelle's view on technology. YES, it is absolutely amazing, I'm able to keep connected with some long-distant friends, however, it doesn't get any further than that. God created us to be relation able but through more of a community and not simply through a computer screen. Technology is awesome but balancing it out with real solid relationships would be alot better. And I believe we would see a vast difference for the good in society.