The Future

All this talk about the future has got me really thinking about past hypotheses about the future and their lackluster results. The media has created caricatures of the future with hopes to far surpass most of anything with reason a person can comprehend. There is a fine line between science fiction and aspirations of a brighter future full of new technologies for any person to become involved with. Personally, I turn to movies as a big reason for the disappointment of what the future is to hold. Back to the Future II reflected a time and place where cars flew and pepsi was still around (in such an advanced society they would have gone back to 'Crystal Pepsi') and some club from Miami beat out the Cubbies for the World Series win. This all occurred in I believe 2025(?). Well we probably all should have thrown out the entire idea of such a world of technological advances could be proven entirely false seeing that the vehicle of choice for the protagonists was a DMC DeLorean produced for not even a half a decade. The point is at the time frame of this movie technology was only beginning to bud.

Aside from a break as well as an allusion of Back to the Future (the sequel), seriously technology has flourished and is now beginning to take the grasp in society it was always thought it had the potential to do. The modern concept of a computer is about the same age as myself, I don't consider myself that old but old enough to get by and make some changes out there in the real world. Think about that for a second a lot of us can say that very same thing. We're not at all done with learning or teaching and neither is what we're working on here. I'm pretty new to the concept of this whole technological deal too, I know how to do a number of things but nothing really complex. I can read a webpage, write a blog or a hefty paper (well light with a good amount of filler), download music and record a little, but ask me anything about html or java I don't even know what these things are. It's like what has been said in here you dont need to know that stuff any more everything is like plug and play making it a lot easier on everyone.

The whole technology movement is really taking off. This blog is shear evidence of that. This will be a part of our classrooms for years to come and from what was once thought a crown of gold in a the highest of schools (financially) is now being made available to an array of schools in different regions. It is our responsibility to keep up with these new technologies so that we may grow with the students. Technology also aids in the aspect that we can learn from every new person we encounter and the internet opened up those resources so that we may do that and continue to learn and grow as educators and the potential students to new technology that we will always be.