Students live such an information rich society these days, where every day they are bombarded with different ways to gain knowledge, through all the different technology mediums. Advertising both print and digital, social media platforms, traditional based texts and Web 2.0 tools all form part of the information overload that most youth experience these days. Furthermore nearly anything a student wishes to know about is easily accessible via the Internet. Educational specialists are predicting that this sort of information and technology will play a major role in the trends shaping educational planning and design.
With all this fantastic technology and information at our fingertips, I did start to wonder though; will we ever reach the stage where traditional schools will become obsolete? Already university courses are offered online, and several social media platforms facilitate this learning, by allowing students to connect with one another and share meaningful information. If technology becomes the main method for instructional delivery, are we as teachers changing the nature of traditional schooling and is this a positive or negative consequence?
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