Reflection #6

I was curious what the most "cutting edge" technologies are in education. In looking this up I found that colabortive enviroments or virtual classrooms were towards the top of the list. The possiblities as far as joining classrooms with those all over the world sounded very interesting, as far as I know these ideas were just speculation but that would be awesome to experience a virtual classroom with students from other countries. This could be really cool but I could see some dangers in it as well. I believe there is value in actually being in a class, not just a "virtual" class. I see our society moving farther and farther behind a screen and it is kind of freaky. I value real life experience, real conversations, real interactions and sometimes I get worried that people don't see the difference between face to face communication and virtual communication. There are some awesome possiblities though, especially for multi cultural education.