The Next Decade of Educational Media

The article The Next Decade of Educational Media presents a wellbalanced and realistic glimpse ito the future of digital educational. Author Cedar Pruitt looks at the technology shapping kids today and extrapolates this into the future. He postulates that a very different learning environment will be present in our society within a decade. I agree with him. While parents are still (in frustration) telling their children to turn off the cell phones, Ipods, computers, IMs, and study, the war it slowly being lost. Perhaps a realization that this is a fast informational world where the majority of time will not be used in deep thought about a subject but will instead be be dispensed across multiple topics in a shorter period of time is something parents need to address. Just as farmers adjusted to the Industrial Revolution, we may need to realize that, in this country in particular, we are seeing the end of an Industrial Society and the advent of an Informational One. To survive and succeed in this, the adults of tomorrow may very well need to be able to multitask and, instead of being an authority in one area, will be able to quickly become familiar with several areas simultaneously. While this sound shallow at first, this may well be the way the world operates for this next generation.