I wonder how learning would change if classes in schools were taught by robots. I suppose in some ways certain classes are already taught by computers and smart boards, which you could call a form of robots. I wonder if years from now we will even need teachers anymore, or will society be so technologically advanced that we could all just go to school through this technology, causing us to become virtually unsociable, causing us to basically become robots ourselves. Or maybe the definition of being social will change from being 'online' or 'available'. These are very extreme ideas, but with the way we are living now... it wouldn't be surprising. Everyday technology advances, and every minute a baby is born into the world.
I hope that the high school students of tomorrow will have the same resources we have now for education, probably even more resources, but that they will learn to use them in more useful ways. When i watched the 'A Vision Of Students Today' video, I was shocked at the realizations that occurred with me when i saw some of the signs the students held up. 'I buy hundred dollar text books that I never open.' and 'I will read 8 books this year, 2300 web pages, 1281 facebook profiles.' both of these parts of the video came as huge shocks to me. Students have not learned any value or respect of money. The fact that we can buy these huge expensive textbooks that have all of this information that we could absorb, but instead we just shove them on a shelf which is ridiculous when we can read 2300 web pages and 1281 facebook profiles which are probably not going to give us the education to achieve the career we want. Is it because we are just lazy? Technology has made life so easy for us that, we take this technology for granted and do not use it for its original useful purposes. I hope that the students of tomorrow will be taught to use technology in a way that will help their education and help them to complete tasks and find out new useful information, instead of using it to fulfill boredom and to distract us from what really matters. Don't get me wrong. The new ways of communication and creating a community over the internet are amazing and are so helpful to stay connected and spread important information.... but when you look back on your life do you really want a facebook status to be the only thing that defines you?
