Thursday, January 14, 2010

Pencil or Paper?


Schools used to be filled with pens, notebooks, and erasers; now it is changing to be anything but that. It has progressed from teachers to robots and chalkboards to electronic desks. The change began 50 years ago with the completion and production of the first self-working robot. Instead of “artificial intelligence” (as predicted in the past), the robots are programmed with lesson plans and a copious amount of information. These robots teach the class what they need to know and the human supervisors are there to control the class if it gets out of hand. Eventually, the supervisors will be phased out with the enhancement of these robots. The robots are transfer the maximum amount of information into the minds of the children in the least amount of time. It is assumed that robots will end up taking full control of the classroom in about fifteen years.
The schooling should completed in seven years so the students could be trained to take control of the country. The students start when they are eight years old because their brain will be developed enough to absorb everything quickly. In the earlier years, child care will focus on having the children follow instructions and sit quietly. After the schooling though, students will be proficient in even the hardest subjects such as calculus and organic chemistry. Within five years of that, they will hopefully control some the world's strongest industries such as steel, silicon, and nuclear weapons.
The students too, are starting a new routine in the classroom. Each of the eight hours they will work on a new subject and incorporate the touch-screen, three-dimensional projecting desks into activities to understand the information more thoroughly. The desks can reenact history, calculate math, and perfect writing and spelling. These devices will help the students focus their full attention on the lessons rather than one another. Plus, the desks are controlled by the robots in order to keep the focus on the subjects rather than the matter.
The goal of this new routine will be to prepare the future for the world and teach them to adapt to the numerous changes. The one thing to consider is whether in another hundred years humans will still be in control or if technology will take over. Education would become irrevelant. Is this possible?

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