Monday, April 23, 2012
Week 14 future ed and tech
If you think about how much education has already advanced, I can only imagine what technology in schools will be like in the future. In 1965 Gordon Moore, who was the founder of Intel predicted a growth of technology. His law said that the processing power and speed of any electronic calculating devices will DOUBLE every 18 months. He also said that the price for technology will go down about 35% a year. So, there will be tons of new technology and tools for schools. They will do amazing things and cost less according to Moore, making technology more affordable overall. Schools will have to make challenges to make accommodations to this technology revolution. As teachers we must prepare students for this change. It is hard for me to think that education in the future will not be almost fully technology based. No more pens and pencils... Although it is easy for educators to focus on the now and learning, we also must look towards the future and start preparing the minds of the students. We must utilize the technology we have today to prepare for the future of education.
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I remember when we first got a computer we used 5 inch floppy disks, to play games like the Oregon Trail, Duke Nucum and Lemmings! These, of course, we had to access from our Dos shell GUI. It was slow and the graphics were definately lacking. It's true that technology has developed exponentially, and who knows where it will go from here! I was behind a little boy at a red box and he was able to manuvour around faster then me! That's scary!
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