Technology circa 2020

This week’s research is on what technology will be like around 2020.  And, since a picture is worth a thousand words I will let these videos speak volumes on how exciting that future is going to be!  Please share you thoughts after you watch these videos.  I was envious of the school children and would have loved learning in that environment.  Especially how they were learning about color and light and getting to interact and see those properties in their true form.  (For example, in terms of light black is the absence of light and that all the colors together make white.  But in print, all the colors together make a brownish gray color.)  You’ll see what we what mean when you watch the videos.

This news article from NBC includes some of the possibilities mentioned in the youTube videos along with the predictions. By 2020, our world will be even more advanced than it is today. The smartphones you currently use could be a thing of the past (which means the “dumb” phone Jason is using today will be an antique). While we talk about how this technology will change our world, the video shows how classroom life will evolve as well. I did find it interesting to see that going to a physical building for school will still exist, just the technology inside of it will change. But as technology implementations always seem to go in the education market, someone will buy a classroom set of “glass”, but not train teachers or afford repairs on the equipment.