My fictional technophile student is Steve –
Steve wakes up reaches over to grab his ‘iEducation’ (this is completely made up, but I’m sure there will be some kind of device made my apple to educate society by 2020) as the lecture and seminar tasks have just come online for this week. It’s Monday morning, which means that there has to be a meeting Monday afternoon for students in their course modules with their tutors. University education has a government rule that students have to have some kind of interaction for 30 minutes every week with their tutor. Steve however has a ‘iEducation’ and can virtually hold these meeting through this application, because he’s a technophile. Steve can then spend the rest of the week completing the tasks and posting them through the internet to be marked.
This may seem like a far fetched account, but over the next ten years I think produserism and social determinism will shape technology in order for education to be completed in a different ways. It may not be as extreme but technophiles will have first hand technology and will rely on this to go about their everyday lives. The upgrade culture does not show any signs of slowing down and I think the factor of online learning and the convenience of it all will keep advancing within society.
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I want an I-Education hehe! You come up with some really good ideas Cara even though they are a bit 'out there', but hey who knows what's going to happen in the future?!
ReplyDeleteI think we rely more and more on technology its hard to determine what kind of technology we will be introduced to. Perhaps in 2020 we will be relying way too much on applications like the I-Education. I mean what would happen if the system went down or it broke, we would all be stuck and it could affect our marks esp if all but 30 mins of our learning was online.
What do you think of the idea of less meatspace interaction? as i'm unsure how i'd cope with it, I think it would definately take some getting used to, but I suppose if you were a digital native of this time this would be all you know, hmm xx (sorry if this was a bit of a random ramble) xx
I think if there were less and less time spent within meatpace education it would pose a large threat of neglecting social skills. You mention 'digital natives'... now this notion is applied generally to all younger generations, therefore with this 'stigma' attached to them do you think that in the future by labelling younger generations with being techno-whizz's could consequently threaten their interaction and social skills IRL.
ReplyDeleteIt's a shame that on both of these 'creative writing' questions you've not 'shown off' as much as I'm sure you could've.
ReplyDeleteIt would've been good to see you using the unit to relate the two fictions to issues of community, dispersal, digitality, interactivity, produserism, CsofP etc. An opportunity missed? Never mind, the essay will give you plenty of opportunity.