Learning Within 20 Years

Can you believe that 20 years ago that today we would be learning things at a much more faster pace than ever before? I want you to go back in time and think about how learning has evolved ever since your first day in school. We were slowly introduced to the fast pace style of teaching we now today experience. For example in elementary school-15 years ago our teachers were using chalk boards, paper and pencil, and would often read us books to expose us to new vocabulary. Middle school through High school we still had teachers using the same teaching a strategy, but now the workload was a little more intense. The ways we researched topics for homework began to slowly expand from hard book covers a wide variety of information found online. In college we still have professors to lecture about whatever the subject may be, but now we are held responsible for soaking in all that knowledge or just let it go to waste.

Throughout the years the way we learn something now can’t compare to the speed from before.  I remember when computers were first being introduced to do simple tasks, like write a paper or learning how to type. In high school I remember hearing people talk about how they were able to still get their High School diploma even after flunking out or getting kicked out. These kids would sit on a computer for a few hours every day for about 9 weeks and get the same credits I was getting in a year in order to graduate. The same thing is now being used on college campuses nationwide. At my university it is called Distant Learning, and it’s also know as an online class. You still have a professor, test, quizzes etc. The only difference is your lectures are all online and the only time you get to see your prof is at the end when you have to take the final exam. Therefore if you think about how you learn and compare to maybe how even your parents were learning things when they were in school it’s. Then where and how will we be gaining our knowledge twenty years from now? How digital are we going to get?
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/06/education/06online.html?pagewanted=2&_r=1&sq=learning%20&st=cse&scp=4