Article 3: The School of the Future

I really have mixed feelings about this article. I think it's great that students are encouraged to use technology and they are given many opportunities to find information and apply it creatively to their own lives. It's just that the idea of students getting on their computer whenever they feel like it and going to virtual classrooms seems a little cold and isolated to me. I firmly believe that kids need to interact to develop social skills. I also think they need routines. They need to get up, come to school, use self-control to sit and listen and follow directions, go to recess and run around. I firmly believe this. If our schools of the future go totally virtual, (which I am skeptical about even really happening), I think our students will miss out on opportunities to learn from each other, laugh together, and empathize with each other. Techonology needs to be a part of a balanced curriculum in our schools, not the cornerstone of it.