With technology improving every day, it’s worthwhile to take a look at the ways it could benefit students compared to the conventional method of learning from a teacher.

            A teacher teaches a class of 20-25 students. This is the method of education that we have grown up on ever since the world was founded. Everyone learns from someone else, Plato learned from Socrates and Aristotle from Plato. But, is this method outdated?

            Technology is ever-growing. Every day coders and programmers come up with new ways to surprise the world. Should students be taking advantage of this? People themselves can only retain so much information, while the internet holds terabytes upon terabytes of resources available to students all over the world. While all of it is not reliable, if someone were to gather all the reliable information into one website, would this be a worthwhile substitute for a teacher?

            Schools across the nation have been utilizing technology more and more for education, and in some classes, the technology is the teacher. Some people say this is stripping hard-earned degrees from teachers. If we all switched to computer based learning, wouldn’t teachers be out of a job? Well, yes and no. The need for teachers would be much less, helping the schools out budget-wise. Every class still needs a supervisor to make sure the class is on task and learning the right things. Just because you can find out that the most common name in the world is Mohammed doesn’t mean it pertains to what you are learning.

            Teachers would also be needed to draft up the resources. If there is no one to create the resources for the students to learn from, then students can’t learn, simple.

This could actually create more jobs than what we have now because of companies opening up to offer these resources. The resources could be a subscription based resource or a have a yearly cost to use. We could get rid of the heavy books for something that can’t tear, can travel with us anywhere, and can be brought up on something as small as an iPod touch.

            While the world is moving towards a technological “revolution” in the fields of engineering and other jobs, shouldn’t education follow?