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Thanks to some truly incredible technology, the world will look very different in 10 years:
“Good teaching is good teaching,” said Troy Mayfield, Branson’s school superintendent. “The only difference is how we do it.”
Christina Narayan of Colorado Springs has taught online for five years, even though she has never been to Branson.
“No matter which city my students live in, how far they are from me in terms of distance ... they feel like they’re part of a classroom, part of a family,” she said.
Some experts agree, saying students can get more one-on-one attention than they would in a traditional classroom.
“Online teachers actually report that they know their online students better than they know their classroom students, because they’re constantly interacting by e-mail, by phone [and] in discussion boards,” said John Watson, a consultant with Evergreen Consulting Associates, a network of professionals in online education.
According to Mayfield, the future of education is a lifeline in the present in Branson.
“I think it would be realistic to say if the school wasn’t open, the town would probably no longer exist,” he said.
‘A whole new range of talents’
Halfway around the world, they have a different philosophy. In China, more and more parents are stretching their thin budgets to find intensive personal tutoring for children as young as 3 years old.
“Talking about the future, the biggest word I’m concerned about is ‘competition,’ ” said Joseph Tan, an automotive executive in Shanghai, who spends $160 every month to send his daughter, You-See, to what are called “early MBA” lessons.
At a learning center in Shanghai, 3-year-old boys line up to have their fingerprints scanned into a computer. Parents pay up to $60 to have their sons’ prints and brain waves analyzed to figure out what subjects they should specialize in.
“Society demands a whole new range of talents,” Li Yue Er, a child education specialist, told NBC News’ Mark Mullen. “It’s more fierce than any time in the past 20 years with a market for jobs that never even existed in the past.”
Cue the creepy futuristic music: Some British consultants are claiming that the future of television is in contact lenses.
The idea is that television technology would shrink till it was the size of a standard contact, which would then be powered by body heat. You could change channels with motion or voice commands, and the people around you wouldn't be able to tell what you were watching.
Their argument is that the technology would make TV feel more immediate and interactive — you'd practically be in the show. On the other hand, um, my parents always told me to sit further away from the TV! And I'd think this would make it very hard to have a Super Bowl party or watch a movie with friends.
If such a thing does become possible, would you ever want to watch TV via contact lenses?
cool right?? now we can wear this contact lenses during boring classes!! haha..kidding!
A database is a collection of data. That may sound overly simplistic but it pretty much sums up what any database is.
A database could be as simple as a text file with a list of names. Or it could be as complex as a large, relational database management system, complete with in-built tools to help you maintain the data.
Try these tutorial on how to make your own database, and good luck! :D