This week's topic: The Future of Technology.
Technology seems to have an unlimited potential for development. It has grown drastically in only about 30 years. Just imagine what another 30 years will be like. Well, that's just what I am going to do; imagine what technology in education will be like in 30 years.
One way it is already evolved is into a global connection mechanism. It is now fast and easy to connect not only through voice but thorough video to people anywhere in the world (as long as they have an Internet connection). That opens the door for some very valuable culture exchange. A classroom in rural Ontario, for example, could connect directly with a classroom in urban Shanghai, China and do a show and tell. This would be a very memorable experience for both groups and would help create more cultural understanding and respect.
Famous speakers and academics will be able to live on in holographic form. I believe this has already occurred. The one I heard about was actually a music concert where a certain deceased performer was brought back to life in holographic format to sing with a current band. Whether or not it has happened as a lecture I can see this will become more and more popular and widespread. Now great minds of today will be able to be captured in holographic form and replayed for audiences generations from now in a more vivid way than just an old video or audio recording.
With the extreme advancement of Google Earth and its Street View mode it seems only a matter of time until it becomes even more of an immerse experience where we can take virtual trips to Egypt or Australia and perhaps have virtual tour guides explain to us about what we are witnessing. Perhaps even, we will be able to walk with the dinosaurs in a virtual environment while we learn about these old creatures. A virtual experience like that would be so memorable and engaging it would certainly spark a bunch of young minds to be excited about learning and the future. I think that's one of the best things that technology advancement can do.
