I\u2019m currently on vacation in Ha Giang Province, northern Vietnam. It has given me plenty of time to do the assigned readings and contrast them against a remote rural environment. Here many children don\u2019t attend school, they help in their parents’ shops, sit idly in traditional dress waiting for tourists to come around and charge admission to the most picturesque viewpoints, or simply rub their bellies and ask for handouts as people pass by. Still, many do attend school as we see them walking home in their uniforms in small groups, similar to how their parents would have 25 years earlier. It\u2019s a society that still deals in cash, there isn\u2019t a visa sign or credit card terminal to be found, they\u2019ve totally bypassed that technology, but you can instantly pay for things digitally by scanning QR codes if you\u2019ve got cellular service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I think the most salient point in all the readings is a line from Selwyn et al., (2020) who wrote \u201cFor every recently installed holographic display, there is likely to be a 10-year-old plasma screen flickering away around the corner.\u201d I don\u2019t expect the classrooms of tomorrow to look anything like they do today. Macgilchrist et al., (2020) envisioned a future where multiple tech companies offered AI\/AR environments for learning, but I wonder if the shift will be significantly greater than that across all of society and not just in the classroom. I sincerely believe that personal AI assistants will change how we live, and in turn, what we learn. There will surely be multiple AI offerings available as there already are, and each one will develop its own niche and target market to truly champion the individual and their needs. I\u2019m eager to pull on that thread and to ponder what that means not only for me but the world as a whole. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Macgilchrist, F., Allert, H., & Bruch, A. (2020). Students and society in the 2020s. Three future \u2018histories\u2019 of education and technology. Learning, Media and Technology<\/em>, 45<\/em>(1), 76\u201389. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/17439884.2019.1656235<\/p>\n\n\n\n Selwyn, N., Pangrazio, L., Nemorin, S., & Perrotta, C. (2020). What might the school of 2030 be like? An exercise in social science fiction. Learning, Media and Technology<\/em>, 45<\/em>(1), 90\u2013106. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/17439884.2020.1694944<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I\u2019m currently on vacation in Ha Giang Province, northern Vietnam. It has given me plenty of time to do the assigned readings and contrast them against a remote rural environment. Here many children don\u2019t attend school, they help in their parents’ shops, sit idly in traditional dress waiting for tourists to come around and charge […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":301,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lrnt523"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0284\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0284\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0284\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0284\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/301"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0284\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0284\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":247,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0284\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions\/247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0284\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0284\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0284\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}