The Future of Education

Technology has been growing for quite some time now and has changed the way we function from day to day.  It's growth has been beneficial to a number of people from CEO's to stay at home moms.  It has even made it's way into the classroom.  Teachers have been able to use technology to help with their teaching.  I was able to watch three videos that were made in 1987 describing what the future of technology in the classroom would be like.  In these videos the teacher was able to interact with a student who was at home with a severe leg injury that didn't allow for him to attend school.  Using technology the teacher was able to interact with the student while he couldn't attend school.  While watching the videos I noticed some similarities and differences of what they predicted technology would be like today. 

One similarity that I noticed from the video that we have today is video chatting.  By using a number of devices we are now able to communicate through video chat which makes the scenario in the videos easier in today's world.  Face-time, Skype, and Google Hangout, just to name a few, give students and teachers the ability to interact with one another if the student or teacher isn't able to be in the classroom.  Allowing teachers and students to have this option makes it beneficial so that no one has to miss a day of class.  One difference that I noticed while watching the videos was that our technology hasn't quite hit Artificial Intelligence.  The closest I would consider might be Siri with Apple devices.