Digital Classroom

I grew up in classrooms with chalks, blackboards and not forgetting dusters. Everything that was to be copied into our exercise books was on the blackboard.
It didn't matter if it was Science or Math or Literature; my teachers would write whatever they had to on the board and let us copy it off from there.
There were no such things as powerpoint slides or youtube videos to help us along the way. The blackboard and chalk were the ultimate tools of a teacher back then.

Bart Simpson definitely has issues with the blackboard as he was always being punished to write lines after skipping school and etc. I'm sure a handful of students were enemies with the blackboard for the various "crimes" committed in school as well.

It was only when I entered poly where technology had advanced tremendously and incredibly. Lecturers started using websites to lecture us and some even opened up programs from their laptops to specifically show us how to go about using it. Take for example: SPSS. The program SPSS is a statistics program which helps one organize data into graphs.

Soon enough, our marketing lecturer was introducing websites to us to help us with our exams. Before you knew it, our class tests were conducted ONLINE (E-TESTS) and our projects had to be submitted either via digital dropbox or email.

Everything was practically converted from a blackboard which used dusters to create write new pieces of information to a computer which only needs one button: The Delete button.

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our lives have improved greatly from manually dusting the blackboard to the mere pressing of just one button. However, with such readily available information at our fingertips, will we be reliant on the web to give us answers?

Will Google be the internet God? well it has sort of become the internet God. Millions of people use Google or other search engines to look up information for their own purposes. Answers are provided with a click of a mouse.

Although the internet makes life easier for both students and teachers, it is inevitable that one day we might forget the fundamentals of life. With dictionary.com and conversion tools available online, fundamentals of a manual tools such as a calculator, or an encyclopedia can be easily forgotten. A digital classroom helps greatly but it is also possible to make us forget how to do things manually.

Let's hope this won't ever happen.