IPod Classroom

The technology today is improving all the time and is making more ways to work around our lifestyles. And now, they have created the IPod classroom, where you don't have to go to school to attend seminars/lectures. You can now watch your lectures on your IPod. As a Mary Ward Student this would be the perfect kind of technology for me because I don't like being stuck in one place for a seminar. This is such an advantage for students because they can watch their lectures whenever they have free time or when they're on the go. And, a great thing about the IPod Classroom, I can always replay, rewind, and or fast forward the lectures to get the things I missed before. I personally always miss things and this just makes my life it a whole lot easier I would also never miss a lecture because it's all available to me. However this technology can also be a disadvantage especially to those who aren't self disciplined because since there isn't anyone supervising you and making sure you're doing your work, you begin to slack off, and you’re work begins to pile up until you realize you need to do work and it’s already too late. There are many advantages and disadvantages to this kind of technology and I feel that, that sort of freedom is too much for some students to handle, and that we should just stay with the procedure we already use today. It would make our lives easier but technology isn’t supposed to make life easier, it’s supposed to customize to our lifestyles and nothing more. Sometimes, we need to work hard to achieve great things. So, in the end my decision is that this sort of technology isn’t needed right now because we as students and people should learn that we cannot have everything easy.