Technology and where we are going

I'll move away from the home and house and chickens to talk about technology.

Right now I'm at a technology conference watching people talk about all the cool things they are doing with their computers, with their students, and so forth. I find this fun in surreal sort of way because all this is being done as we are wondering what exactly will be happening with the recent 10% across the board cut that the governor of our state just ordered.

While I love the techie stuff and how it can really create interest in the classroom, how can this be a possibly if our tax revenue continues to crash? We hide behind the technology stuff that's out there, never really looking behind the curtain to see what's there. Our world has changed in the last two years, and as Americans those days of all this stuff is simply not coming back. Between the fact that we as a country are so incredibly in debt that in all likelihood we'll never pay it back and the fact we have either reached or have almost reached the peak point of oil production, our classrooms will be slowly but surely changed in a way that none of us can understand.

It's all good, but we also need to look at the bigger picture. How can we continue our educational system with fewer and fewer resources? Can we do this? If not, what will education look like? Can we sustain this?

Many questions with few answers right now. But if we don't start looking for the answers now, they'll be found for us, and probably not in ways we like either.