Tuesday, January 30, 2007

Evolution of Class

Today class was held despite the inability of our instructor to attend our physical classroom. Everyone attended and was able to easily communicate back and forth to the instrutor and fellow students. Now, at the current date and time it may not seem as such a huge feat. So what, we communicate to numerous people on a daily basis. However, I began to think how evolved classrooms at all educational levels have become.

To start off we had classrooms that encompassed all grades and were held in one room. The learned on old parchment and wrote with quills. Fast forward a few hundred years and now we are instantly connected to other students miles away via a virtual world. Papers are written digitally and submitted electronically.

Now a comparision to classes that our parents attended. TV was a budding resource rarley implement in the educational institution. Cable was never heard of, let alone improved into a lesson plan (Cable In The Classroom), and the internet was nothing more than a military idea.

Today as normal as it may seem to most, was a huge accomplishment and advancement. It was my first time attending a virtual class and the experience was pleasureable. I would embrace any possible opportunity to enroll in an online class in the future.

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