Reading the article about things that won't exist by 2020 is really a scary idea. It is so scary to know that the common things that we use today like desks, library books, homework, and even paper will be obsolete in less than ten years. It is even scarier to see how that is going to affect teachers in the classroom. Teachers in an elementary school classroom will soon be using blogging, online homework assignments, and e-mail to communicate with their students. It's scary to know that when I was elementary school, I barely used a computer and I really had no reason to use one. It is so interesting to see how technology is changing day by day and before I know it, I will be teaching my own students how to blog, just as I learned in my college class! I just hope that parent teacher conferences still happen and I think that face to face interaction is much more important than talking about things over the internet. The line has to be drawn somewhere and I have a strong belief in communicating with parents face-to-face, just as my mom and dad did with my teachers. I am very interested to see what life is going to be like in 2020 and how it is going to effect my classroom. I guess I won't be able to find out for another nine years. Until then....I have to get back to my desk to work, because that might not even be around in a few years.
Have you ever read the book 1984? This reminds me of that story but its about 20 years later. It's crazy to think of things we grew up with and have at our finger-tips just disssapearing. We always make fun of our parents and grandparents for saying "back in my day..." but I guess that's going to be us in the near future!
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