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I read an article titled "Classrooms For The Future" by David Warlick and think that these ideas for classrooms in the future could be an excellent way to improve education.

In this article, Warlick tells how he is going to talk to a group of educators in Pennsylvania. The idea is to make the classrooms in all of the high schools in the state more technologically advanced. They would put laptops, imaging software, electronic whiteboards, and much more in each classroom. The project would take about $200 million dollars for the whole state which is one setback. Warlick said something in this article that gave me something to think about when considering the idea of these futuristic classrooms,

"It’s going to take stamina, enthusiasm, dedication, and hustle. And it’s going to take, perhaps more than anything else, imagination."

This type of project would require a lot of time and money. It would not be a small job to install these things in every high school around the state.

I think that this type of learning environment would be great for high school students because they are so used to doing things on their computers at home. Kids these days are very knowledgeable when it comes to technology so it would be an easy transition and it would probably speed up the pace of things in class. I think that we will eventually have these types of classrooms in most schools around the country. It would be interesting to see how it goes in just one state before they decided to go countrywide with the idea. This would make learning a lot easier because none of the kids would have to bring heavy textbooks home every night and, chances are, it would be a lot harder to forget to do homework. You wouldn't have to worry about forgetting a book at school because all of your class work would be on your computer. This would help me a lot because the main thing that I do is forget to bring home one of my books and then the assignment is late. If all schools changed to be like this it would make high school and college students a lot more ready for the business world because they would already be used to doing most of their work on the computer. There are a few downsides to this idea but all in all I think it would be a great improvement to our school systems in America.