The Future of Educational Job Security:
Many of you may have heard about CNN's use of holograms to report on Tuesday's Presidential campaign. Simply, reporter’s 3-D images were arrayed in studio utilizing cutting edge technology. I thought it was pretty cool, although at this point, it amounts to little more than that which networks have been able to be do since the 1960's, via satellite. However, it got me thinking about our very own industry, education.

I recently stumbled upon a video clip from the Cisco Corporation. This video clip illustrates several of the potentials that exist in the information dissemination field in the future. Take a look into a future where we have available a technology that potentially displaces the classroom teacher. I can see it now, in the year 20??, some school district, say in the Rocky Mountain region, opening its doors in September to students, who stream in with new wardrobes, to rooms filled with holographic portals, projecting private sector educational facilitators, who recently graduated from an educational IT program that marries pedagogy with information management systems, social networking platforms, and information dissemination devices. The economic implications may be extraordinary. Take a private contractor, who pays for their own insurance, developing a unique problem solving, experiential curriculum that caters to public school electives, charter and private school programs, or adult educational services. The individual would perform services across a large geographic region, utilizing tools such as Google apps, ning, delicious, online interactive whiteboards, and other digital tools available at the time. District's can begin to transfer financial resources into infrastructure, rather than salary. Health care, rising salaries, and qualitative instructional limitations would be replaced by a market driven by the surplus of teachers due to budgetary limitations as a result of our current global economic conditions. The tsunami effect such technology could have, would ripple into the very design of education, creating a bi-polar world within education. On the one side, those individuals who stand behind the standardization of students learning, and those who believe in "non-traditional" curriculums and environments.

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