The Wonders of Technology in the Classroom

    The human race is constantly trying to invent technologies that can help them in every aspect of their lives. After watching The Future of Education video, I found a lot of similarities, as well as differences between their predictions about education in the future and the current reality. The sick student was using a program on his computer that would give him access to information as fast as he could ask for it. This is strikingly similar to Wikipedia in our current age. The biggest difference I noticed was the set up of the classroom. It seems that old habits die hard in education. The classroom was set up with no desks and about 20 chairs for the students to sit in. They had no backpacks, pencils, binders, or any school supplies for that matter. Today, we may have our computers to use and take notes on, but the tradition of writing on paper and using a backpack are still very very prevalent. There is no doubt though, that the main point of the video rings true today. At the end the injured student stated that Pheidippides died for the access to information from running so far. Now it is as simple as sending an email, giving a person a call, or sending a text message. Nobody has to die sending a text message. 
    I believe that the improvement of current technology will be the greatest asset to educating our students in the future. I believe that within twenty years, books will be obsolete. Students will only need to bring out their tablet which has access to every book that they would ever need. Paper will be a thing of the past as well. Students can write on their tablet. Processing power of tablets in increasing at a rapid rate. In twenty years, it will be unfathomable to us how many things the tablet will be able to do for us. I know that this might sound a little bit crazy, but I believe that virtual reality will be the biggest advance in education the world has ever seen. If humans can find a way to invent very complex virtual realities, they will be able to slow time in those realities. By doing this, what a student could learn in 1 hour of virtual reality could be the same as a year of normal education. I believe that technology is still pretty far off from seeing this come to fruition. It will be a turning point in human history when the technology is invented.