iN2015
The video paints a fantastic view of what our future holds. I would say that it's a good follow-up video to watch after I've visted the COTF. The idea of having a touchscreen that that controls, connects, creates and contain all that we need for our daily activities is something that would really make our lives a whole lot easier. Everything at the touch of our fingertips.
If there were any fears, I'm just afraid that it'll make us too lazy to experience the real thing for ourselves, to actually move from our comfort zone to get things done. I'm sure alot of us have watched the movie "Wall-E". Life on the Axiom was good, but for over 700 years, humans grew to be so dependent on machines and touchscreen operated floating chairs that their feet and hands grew smaller while their bellies grew bigger until they could no longer stand!
Of course, this is an extreme view, but I feel that as much as we make use of technology to facilitate our learning and make our daily activities more convenient, we should rememeber that we must actively use these technology in a way that it improves our mind as well as our physical well-being. Gosh... this feels so abstract to express....
2015 and ME....
I think that this experience in the course has managed to keep me updated with some of the latest technology offerings NIE has been trying out. Perhaps, to aid us in finding out what we want to use, NIE can conduct talks or even large scale exhibitions to showcase the latest technological offerings to let us decided what is the best tool to use.
However, I think onus falls on us to find out more about what we can use to help us in our teaching. We know what we need the most and we can't force into our lessons something for the sake of using it.
Learning in 2015 will be more student centered since technology as seen in the video is in the hands of everyone, from the young to the eldery. It has been shown to be able to possibly take place at anytime, anywhere in the video. Teachers will become more of a facilitator rather then an instructor and our job will be to encourage and help students unlock the information rather then spoon feed them.
Right... that's quite a bit for now... Here's a little somethign for the future... (fears for the future? this is something to take note of before it really happaens~!)
