School Vs. the Technology Age

A clash of titans, but who will win? The obvious answer is simply that Technology will overcome schools and they have the choice of changing to keep up, or being inevitably destroyed in the wake of our generation.

Everything that school has to be offered can be done over the Internet. Everything but human interaction, which is probably the only reason that schools will continue to survive if they choose to not catch up soon. The era of technological advancement is at hand, and failing to keep up is failing to stay alive.

Simply put, I don't think that there is a line where there will be too much technology in school. They'll be lucky if they can keep up with the curve.

A lot of the old ways still need to stay in place though. We need paper based literature, we just do. Without it, All generations will be doomed to the simplistic mindset that is our generation, and that is truly a scary thought. The fact that other generations could dooms themselves to a life of ignorance should scare anyone with half a mind. Without understanding the days of the old, we are only doomed to repeat them.

Another thing along the lines of my last point is that most students claim to use spark notes rather than reading books. Yes, I do see that spark notes has the potential to be a useful tool, but the fact that people are abusing such a great tool is infuriating. We read in school not because we are told to, but because we are attempting to grasp a higher meaning of life, or what things were like at one point in time, or even to what they could possibly be. We read to learn, but only after learning to read. That is something that will always, at least I hope will, be done without the aid of technology.

The fact that school board is threatened by spark notes is quite pathetic. They are so very many ways to deal with students who use these, but they find it a viable threat just saddens me.

There seems to be no need for me to go on any longer as much of what I would have to say about other things, well I've said them in previous blogs.