Technology and students in a 20 year future.

Vannervar Bush, “As we may think” makes a good point on how our minds work and how that could possibly affect our way of teaching in the near future. His complexity of thinking has made me believe that technology as always will be a good portion of our study but will never in reality take over the way we learn. This quote explains the differences and advantages on both the human mind and technology in a learning way, “One cannot hope thus to equal the speed and flexibility with which the mind follows an associative trail, but it should be possible to beat the mind decisively in regard to the permanence and clarity of the items resurrected from storage”- Bush. This explains how the human mind thinks and can alter its train of thought in a way technology thus technology has the best memory storage system due to the fact that it can allocate its memory at a faster rate with quality. Students now have an issue with learning not because of the complexity of the subject but because of the memory system. Yeah we can learn and store a tremendous amount of information but we can’t just retrieve in full detail as a solid computer could. So what could a classroom look like in 20 years? Classrooms filled with digital cameras, projectors and a professor in the room. Writing will be a thing of the pass as items get more complex projectors might even be linked to the mind of the professor to either write down everything he says or just project images he had revised earlier. The cameras will be due to storage and note taking so that students can review the lecture instead of looking through notes. As bush said the memory allocation and retrieval of a human isn’t the same as a computer so storing this information to later look over it will make it more efficient for the student to learn.