Students today go to school with laptops, ordering their text books digitally and accessing them on a tablet. As computers and smart devices are becoming more powerful and cheaper by the day, the ability to learn from anywhere has become the norm. Students even have the opportunity to study and receive degrees without leaving the comfort of one’s home. Future generations will never know of the Dewey Decimal System, finding the book using the relative location and index. Now this has been automated and as simple as a search on a public computer in a library. Class room conversations are turning into discussion threads on-line, urging students to freely speak their mind without having to open their mouth. As technology continues, so will the ways academic professionals incorporate it with their institutions …show more content…
Martin Luther King Jr. stated, challenging one to further themselves, think outside the box, and think critically is the purpose of education. No matter what age or grade, encouraging one to push themselves and always succeed in school is a gift that everyone should receive. While there are many aspects of life that effect a child’s future, education should be a focus of all parents, guardians, and mentors. How one is raised, where one is raised, and the technology that one is raised with have a major impact on one’s student learning. Without these factors, a student would be lost, not knowing what, or where to focus on. Education is more than just reciting facts or adding numbers, it reflects one’s personality, it makes us who we are