This article is about Google VP and professor, Sebastian Thrun and how he thinks education should be revolutionized. Thrun founded an education company called Udacity, where he is making his dreams about how education should work, come to life. His idea is to develop a catalog of free online courses taught by profound professors around the world. In one of the rooms at Udacity, a professor is filmed working problems and drawing figures on a white board. In another room, educators are coming up with fun new ways to get students interested in completing a math problem. Thrun believes that soon education will no longer be "one size fits all" he believe "Education will respond to you". He also believes that grades will not matter and that instruction will be free, but services might involve a fee.
I think Sebastian Thrun is up to something brilliant that could, and most likely will, change the face of education. Technology is already beginning to take over in classrooms and more and more teachers are "flipping" their classrooms. I feel like one day there will be no more face to face education, just solely online. Thrun makes a point however, about how theater never went away when film making took over. Film making is just more popular and less expensive. So I'm thinking that education would work out the same way. It would be available online for those who prefer it but you could also still go and learn with an instructor face to face. A lot of interesting ideas to take in here. I'm not sure what it means for the future of educators. I am all for technology in a classroom, but what happens when you take the classroom completely away? I think it could work but I also think it would take a lot of time to ease into it.
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