Amanda Week 8

The question was brought up on Moodle, where do we go from here? I have copied my paper in:
I would not have been able to predict this type of digital age ten years ago. Mainly I believe I would not have been able to because I was only in my young teens. What our digital world might look like it ten years is really beyond me but no doubt it will be even greater than what it is now with all of the technology changes and great innovations that have gone on and will continue to happen. In the next five years I doubt there will be huge changes but there will be changes. Technology changes so quickly that innovations that happen within these next 5 years will allow applications and people to be better, faster and stronger than what we are now. I think we will become even more connected than what we are now, or at the very least the capability to do so. I think that people will reach a point that they will understand that they need some unconnected time so perhaps the future is actually getting rid of all the extraneous information and sites and really making our lives more efficient and increase the ability to be accessible. I think people are getting to a data overload point and unless things change in the future, people will actually be less intelligent then they are now. The way we use the internet and social sites need to start fostering intelligence and capability not allowing people to be stupid and take what they read for granted, not checking the facts to verify what they are reading, teaching, speaking about is actually a truthful statement. I think the language of the internet either needs to change or be separated from real life. Children coming up in this society see something written on a billboard or document or text that says R U going 2 C me tmorrow? All that does is foster stupidity for the people now and for the children that are up and coming and learning. Education needs to become the importance again and teachers need to balance the cool factor of the internet and what is on it with what they need to be teaching. Teachers need to vet the information they are teaching and showing to students, especially those that are younger and very impressionable and don’t have the background knowledge of how to critically think and answer questions, write and speak appropriately and how to act. My hope is that ten years from now we are focusing back on that and have a nice well balanced learning curriculum that allows people to truly learn book information and life information. The more that we can help teach those that are young now the better off our children’s future will be and the future of this world. Our children need to learn from the mistakes made in our generation so that when they are the CEO’s of companies, they don’t cause the same problems for their children that have been caused for our children currently.

I am sure there are people who don't agree and that is their opinion and I would be very interested in hearing those!

http://mashable.com/2010/09/07/next-5-years-social-media/
http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/the-future-of-social-media-being-everywhere-a-steve-rubel-interview/ (article and video in one)