Computers in the Workplace

 

The topic I chose to write about was education.

 

    My choice is that technology will affect this specific industry the most. Education as an industry affects all of us; we all grow up going to school, as young adults we went to college, and as older adults we may have children in school. Education has already been affected tremendously and will change much more as we progress. The 2020 pandemic is an excellent example of what has happened to the industry already. The fact that everyone could not return to school and had to switch to online learning was a significant change. This alone has ripples in our day-to-day life; we already use the word zoom as a verb, and we all go to school online as we do this assignment. School is also where many of us get introduced to a lot of technology and how we use that tech now. In the future, AI will change this industry significantly. Education needs to be open to introducing AI to students and show them the abilities that AI has. As the text shares, “If you need to write a report, market a product, or create a professional cover letter for your resume, generative AI can be beneficial” (CompTIA, 2024) AI can be a tool for students, as many students have already used computers or the internet. To move forward from AI I think the industry will be even more effected by VR (virtual reality) as the book Ready Player One, a fictional book about VR being used in a day to day bases, the book shares that students do not go to a school any more but log in to a VR school where a VR teacher teaches. This may be a fictional book, but we already use a similar schooling model in online schooling. I believe that Education will look significantly different in a couple of years.

   Bethany Foster let me know that adding a real-world example of AI and VR being used in a classroom would enrich my post. I decided to look for a real-world example and found out that Oak Run Middle School in Texas has used this technology to let their students explore new locations in Virtual Reality field trips. The article titled "How is Virtual Reality Used in Education?" explains that the school is using this method to take field trips to many different location that helps the student by learning about the location and, more importantly, letting the student stay engaged with the lesson. The technology is also a time and cost-effective option for schools. AI and VR seem to be a great option for the education industry for years to come. 

Reference: 

CompTIA (2024). CertMaster Learn Tech+ (pp. 11-2). Computing Technology Industry Association (CompTIA). https://labsimapp.testout.com/v6_0_678/index.html/productviewer/1215/11.1.2/e2363228-53bb-4e27-87e7-26cd1de40137/outline?nonce=9FrecB_G4AljhljpGjYWn1BDarcGs-zM3KwbIkjv1F0


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