The Face Of Education Has Changed Over Time

In this paper I will show my research on how theories of education have changed thought the years and how teachers and students adapt to these changes. With the changes in multicultural classrooms and how students with disabilities have rights in public education.

Among other things, British author and philosopher Aldous Huxley introduced the world to the unsettling power of early learning and development through his novel Brave New World. Rather than learn from the wisdom of a mother, children are fed state messages through subconscious sleep-learning, enabling mass control. Aside from Huxley’s dark depictions, Brave New World reveals how susceptible to manipulation the developing human mind is. Superimpose these effects onto the real world. How nations and their educators raise the next year’s children, greatly influence, or more effectively, wholly define Generation Z. Signed by 71 countries, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights lists the right to

Todays education has changed in many ways over the years. From the behavior of student’s caused by different parenting skills, how teachers teach their classes as well as student’s ability to use fundamentals, media and technology all play a role in how the world of education has evolved. Robin Lawrence a thirteen year veteran teacher now a curriculum specialist at Bellaire Elementary has a good insight into how the educational system has changed over time.

As we continue with the future, online classes are becoming more and more popular. Students are able to work and continue education with more flexibility. The most common problem with the online class is communication, as well as learning is not always successful. In a recent article by Maria Konnikova, Ziming Liu, a professor at San Jose State University suggests, “On screen, people tended to browse and scan, to look for keywords, and to read in a less linear, more selective fashion. On the page, they tended to concentrate more on following the text.”(Konnikova. Par. 3). Perhaps instead of just an online class, an instructor combine the two. Some parts of the class, such as video lectures should be presented online, and other things like homework or work be done in class.

Online college courses are almost becoming traditional for students. Some may perceive that a student does not receive an equal education when taking an online class. People tend to think that if a teacher is not directly giving the information about the subject, the course learning experience is different or unjust. This assumption is wrong according to the perception of many online course takers. Online college courses offer students the advantage to learn on their own time. The skills that a student learns in self-discipline, scheduling to complete graded assignments, and advantages learned with technology gives online classes equal education experience compared to classes on campus.

However, advocates of classroom learning believe the online method isolates the students from one another as well as their professor minimizing the overall value of taking the course. They also claim that students learn better when working together with their instructor and their fellow classmates. Students learn better when they are given the opportunity to ask questions, join in class discussions, and they move the process of learning forward through their participation. Face-to-face advocates firmly believe that this kind of interaction is not possible over the Internet; and for many types of education, e-learning will never meet the potential of live human interaction in the classroom. An article in the New York Times titled, “Second Thoughts on Online Education,” backs up the points made above. A recent research published by the National Bureau of Economic Research, comes to the conclusion; “A rush to online education

"It is only when all these things, names and definitions, visual and other sensations are rubbed together and subjected to tests in which questions and answers are exchanged in good faith and without malice that finally, when human capacity is stretched to its limit, a spark of understanding and intelligence flashes out and illuminates the subject at hand." Plato had this to say about dialogue and its importance to the process of education. Does this sound like the educational system that is in place today in the United States? Odds are that it does not. What does being educated mean anyway? What is an undergraduate university education? These questions have been

However, because of technology, the classroom is quickly changing to meet the demands of the students. It is moving "from teacher-centered approaches towards a personalized, small-group oriented, multi-dimensional model of teaching" (Sun 18). Because of this, the "roles and relationships of teachers and students have undergone changes compared to those in traditional face-to-face settings" (19).

Over the years, different things evolve and change from what society is used to. For example, devices were introduced to have a conversation with people miles away; however, as time continued, individuals were able to talk without a wire restricting them from walking out of the kitchen. Over the decades, the style in males and females changed drastically as well. Although people say change is good, some change might have virtuous intentions but they end up being severely detrimental. Colleges should not interfere with the constant flow of education by incorporating a distraction from learning; however, college officials should merely strive for their students to be comfortable not pampered.

Technology is changing every aspect in our lives, even the way we learn. Online classes are a rapidly growing trend it today’s society. Online classes are a cost-effective substitute for traditional courses and more convenient for many, so more schools and universities are offering this option. Due to the increase in online course enrollment, people are questioning if students truly learn something from online classes because it’s not a traditional learning environment. Online classes are just, if not more, effective as traditional classes because grades have increased and online discussions provide students with the chance to interact through networking while earning a degree for less than what it would cost to enroll at the same university.

School has changed tremendously over time. School was a lot different back then than it is today. Going to school was not offered to everyone. It was only offered to the upper-class. Boys and girls were schooled separately, but today our schools are diverse and have many different kinds of races. Technology did not even exist a hundred years ago, but today, we use technology everyday in our school work. Through the course of history, education usually matched the needs of society until recently where a gap has occurred between high school and the real world in what skills and content is taught versus what is needed.

(Gulley, K.G., 2003). I believe one solution to that argument are Hybrid courses. The hybrid classroom incorporates characteristics from both the tradtional and the online classroom. In the ideal, hybrid courses offer educators the best of both worlds Hybrid Classrooms are able to have access to the Internet in order to enhance the learning process. Students have the benefit of having both face-to-face interactions along with having assignments available to them online at anytime.( Okolo, T, & Naidoo, T., 2005) For example, students may meet in class only one day a week along with meeting in an online chat room for the other two days of class. The hybrid classroom is a new approach to teaching. That is only of the major aspect that is discussed about when talking about technology in the classroom in depts.

How much has education developed in the past 3,000 years? From the earliest civilizations, to Greece and Rome, to present day education has been around, and evolving. Education started off very basic, learning everyday tasks, all the way to military strategy. Then it blossomed into writing, rhetoric, science, debate, and as if it wasn’t complex enough it developed from there. However, what time period had the most rigorous education, answers to the question may vary, but logic shows that the renaissance period was height of education.

In History Begins at Sumer, Kramer informs us about how Sumerians lived during 2000 B.C. He discusses different topics such as education, justice, medicine, and many more. The book mainly focuses on Sumer but as you read you start to notice that our world and Sumerian world are similar. It’s an eye opener to how everything we do came about and where it all started. The part we don’t actually know is how Sumerians came up with their way of living. Many may assume that their ancient world is so different but after reading History Begins at Sumer they would later realize the similarities outweighs the differences.

As education advances into an age of technology, the traditional classroom is becoming obsolete. No longer does an instructor stand in front of the class conducting lessons on a blackboard, as that role is changing with