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trickykittyThe House of the Future...Today
I can picture a virtual classroom where students sit at the desk/table and press a button that activates a PC notebook-like screen built into the desk. A stylus is available to take handwritten notes on a virtual tablet which can then be saved to your school account storage and is accessible via the internet. (Hm, I can already do that using the VPN and saving experiments and PDFs on our lab's file server.) For those who prefer to type, a virtual keyboard can be turned on to allow students to literally type on the desk. Books will be ebooks in which you can place searchable bookmarks, add highlighting and notes, and "carry around with you" (read: access) using a laptop. When I was enrolled at University of Phoenix - Online, all of the materials where found via their web site, including class notes, class discussions, virtual real-life training programs, class books, etc.
I wonder if I would prefer spending say $2000 on a PC Tablet rather than having to spend $200-500 per semester on class books. I'm really not sure about that. I enjoy writing and have plenty of analog notebooks lying around to prove it. I really wonder if I would want the analog notebooks and reading books to go the way of the dinosaur. Ah, wonderful technological indecision.
I can picture a virtual classroom where students sit at the desk/table and press a button that activates a PC notebook-like screen built into the desk. A stylus is available to take handwritten notes on a virtual tablet which can then be saved to your school account storage and is accessible via the internet. (Hm, I can already do that using the VPN and saving experiments and PDFs on our lab's file server.) For those who prefer to type, a virtual keyboard can be turned on to allow students to literally type on the desk. Books will be ebooks in which you can place searchable bookmarks, add highlighting and notes, and "carry around with you" (read: access) using a laptop. When I was enrolled at University of Phoenix - Online, all of the materials where found via their web site, including class notes, class discussions, virtual real-life training programs, class books, etc.
I wonder if I would prefer spending say $2000 on a PC Tablet rather than having to spend $200-500 per semester on class books. I'm really not sure about that. I enjoy writing and have plenty of analog notebooks lying around to prove it. I really wonder if I would want the analog notebooks and reading books to go the way of the dinosaur. Ah, wonderful technological indecision.
