Technology and Education: Comparing My Education and My Grandparent's Education
...ges; my Grandparents have no idea what a web page is. Another major difference in our education is the size of the school and the number of kids in each class. My Grandparents' school was small compared to our school, and our school is small compared to most schools to day. My Grandpa's graduating class had 20 kids in it and that was considered a large class. My class now has 67 kids in it and is considered a small class. One kid I talked to from Denver has 700 kids in his class. My Grandpa said the main reason he stayed in school was to play sports. The reason I stay in school is so when I graduate I can go on to college. My Grandpa said that back then; you really did not need to have that good of and education to get a good job. It wasn't like it is now, where you have to go to college to get a good job, unless you go to work in the coal mine. My education and my Grandparents education have been very different. I think that my education and my Grandchildren's education will be just as different, but in other ways. Schools probably won't be called schools anymore, they will be probably be called Learning Institutions. Computers will probably be something of the past along with TV, movies and calculators. Everything they learn will be taught to them over a computer like-thing. The computers will probably look like a laptop, only smaller and lighter. The connections will be very fast. The Internet will be something of the past, something newer, faster and better will be used. The student's computers will all be attached to the same line and the teacher will just put the assessments on his computer and send them to the students. They will be able to do almost everything online. The students will not even have to come to school most of the time if they don't want to. The only reason they will have to come to school will be to take tests. The students will not be called by name; they will each have a code that they use for everything. They will put their code, instead of their name, on their papers. To get on a school computer they will have to enter their code, so then the school can track anything they do. The lockers will have locks on then that use the same code as every thing else. This will be good because now there is the problem in some places with ranch kids getting to school. Some ranches I know in Utah are two or three hours away from a county road, then still another couple hours away from a town with a school. Those kids could just take their classes over the Internet and not have to worry about getting to school everyday. You will be able to take any type of class you want over the computer. The only class you won't be able to take over the computer is Psychical Education. The government will require you to take at least one class of Psychical Education a year. You could probably get a four-year degree while you are still in high school. There will probably be cameras in the halls; classrooms and almost everywhere else there might be students. It wouldn't surprise me if they even have cameras in the bathrooms and locker rooms. If you do something disruptive in class you will get sent to the office at once, instead of the teacher trying to take care of it. If you get in a fight or threaten somebody you will be suspended automatically and maybe expelled. One thing that will change is, if you didn't start the fight, or do anything to cause then you will get in trouble for defending yourself. If you do get expelled you will have to go to a special school. It will be kind of like a military school, but not as strict. The main difference between the special school and a military school will be that you don't get all the military training. You will have to live there for at least a month, and then y...