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To tell you the truth, I don’t even want to think of the future right now. There are so many advances in technology in every aspect of life. In the future I’m sure we’ll be able to communicate in a numerous amount of ways in the upcoming years, but it’s almost like we’re drifting apart even more. Now that we have advanced cell phones with textings capabilities, we don’t have to see or talk to each other to have conversations. I’m just wishing for technology to slow down a bit.

Kaitlyn S.

I honestly can’t think of anything that I would like for the future. I can’t think of anything that would make my life better. I’m pretty happy with mine thank you very much, and I don’t need some new gadget to make my life complete. But, I did hear about some new things that seem really weird.
There is this one computer that you can load your books on it and it will actually appear in actual font. You could skim through it and not have to carry a bunch of textbooks in your backback. One of the few problems with that is that if it crashes you’re screwed and also I like to be able to flip through my books and be able to tell what I am reading.
I also heard about thes speakers for your computer that are really tiny. All you have to do is attach them to any surface and it will use that surface as a wayto send sound waves through the air. It can’t work through the air but it could use you as a speaker too. Once againg, really cool but really unecessary.
Oh yeah this one is really out there but in one magazine I was looking at that was trying to sell you stuff there was an alarm clock that when it went off it would send one of those little ini helicopters in the air and you had to catch it and put it back on the stand before the alarm would turn off.

Tess

Interesting comments. A few people at this conference, and there were literally thousands that attended, had a similar viewpoint as Tess and Kaitlyn. Especially one guy, whose name I cannot recall now. He said, yeah, all of this new gadgetry and technology is truly amazing. And, yes, it is cool to see all of these teachers so into new tech tools for the classroom. But, so what? If the kids are not using the stuff, or if they do have direct access to hands-on with new technology, does that automatically mean that they are becoming better learners, or students, or citizens, or people?

Because it is shiny and new, does that guarantee improvement? Really and truly?

Hmm.

-Mr. M