The future of Schools
Think back to 1st grade in the Elementary School (those apart of District 748 at that time and others that may relate as well) when we visited the school computer lab and used the green-screened computers with the large floppy disks, the old Mac computers with Claris Works, library catalogs, large video tape cameras, and teacher-written report cards. If at that time we were able to think as deeply as we do now, what would we have said the world would be like today? Would we have predicted digital video (DV) cameras, flip phones, computer catalogs, flat-panel monitors, online grading systems, My Space, etc. Technology evolved so fast from 1996 to 2006, and looking into the future I think we will see many changes as well. A lot of the new stuff that we have today was built more from scratch, but I think in the future we are going to see a lot more technology that is based off of today. Faster computers, smaller and bigger memory cards, Ipods with more capabilities and large amounts of memory, etc. The future classroom is going to be more computer based. Students will have more access to computers than we even do now, maybe a majority of the students will even have their own. Wireless technology will also come even further. We'll see more internet connections and devices that work off of wireless technology. Cell phones may also have some application in the classroom as well. Perhaps students will be able to use their cell phones in conjuction with homework. I saw a pen scanner that hooks up to a computer and will upload any text/numbers that it scans over. What a future we have in store thanks to the technological advances that we have been seeing so much of. It's amazing to think that everything we have today is going to be considered very obsolete with only a few years down the road.
posted by Kevin Hurd @ 3/30/2006 10:16:00 PM
1 Comments:
When I wrote this post I didn't look to deeply into the negative aspects of technology, but certainly there is some that have been presented. I think for the most part the changes have been positive when negatives vs. positives are weighed, the key is that people need to keep a balance between technology and "the old way of doing things." We shouldn't let text messaging totally replace writing or talking or let the car take the place of a nice healthy walk. Instead we should use those as convieniences but take advantage of a nice healthy walk or using our hands to write as well sometimes. I think most people I know do a good job of keeping this balance in their life.
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