13th October 2013, 3:05 PM
Okay it has likely been a long time since you've been in a public school (much like today's writers).
So let me describe today's classrooms. They all have projectors mounted to the ceiling which project an image to a massive screen which also functions as a touch surface. These are both fed into the teacher's computer (ALL teachers have computers these days, a classroom can't function without it considering grades are now stored in databases) and they use special software to sync that up. The biggest company for this is: http://smarttech.com/smartboard , and they are nationwide, covering even the local school systems here. Do you honestly think that this is an anomaly? Oklahoma isn't well known for the best education in the country, in fact ranking pretty low, and even THIS state has this technology, even in the smallest towns. I've asked around. Oh no, it's huge, a change that NO ONE seems to be aware of because people haven't bothered to stop and ASK kids what is different. In fact, Dead Space 2 lost me the moment I entered a super future classroom with frickin' CHALK BOARDS in it.
Writers just aren't bothering to see if schools have changed at all. I'm not surprised. Remember all our 80's shows where schools seem to have wandered out of the 60's? It's an ongoing blank space possibly brought about by writers just not wanting to ever set foot in a school again.
Look into it. Ask around. You'll soon see the reality of it.
So let me describe today's classrooms. They all have projectors mounted to the ceiling which project an image to a massive screen which also functions as a touch surface. These are both fed into the teacher's computer (ALL teachers have computers these days, a classroom can't function without it considering grades are now stored in databases) and they use special software to sync that up. The biggest company for this is: http://smarttech.com/smartboard , and they are nationwide, covering even the local school systems here. Do you honestly think that this is an anomaly? Oklahoma isn't well known for the best education in the country, in fact ranking pretty low, and even THIS state has this technology, even in the smallest towns. I've asked around. Oh no, it's huge, a change that NO ONE seems to be aware of because people haven't bothered to stop and ASK kids what is different. In fact, Dead Space 2 lost me the moment I entered a super future classroom with frickin' CHALK BOARDS in it.
Writers just aren't bothering to see if schools have changed at all. I'm not surprised. Remember all our 80's shows where schools seem to have wandered out of the 60's? It's an ongoing blank space possibly brought about by writers just not wanting to ever set foot in a school again.
Look into it. Ask around. You'll soon see the reality of it.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)