Teacher: I have brought some paper and pens, it's time to learn how to write.

The kids looked around to each other in confusion wondering what Mr Mable meant.

Trevor raises his hands and says: Sir, I do not have my glasses today, I forgot them at home.

Teacher: that's okay Trevor, you may borrow Jayden's as he will be out of class today. Class, I will be sending a box of pens around, please take one pen each.

The box was passed around, each child looked at the pen incredibly puzzled which reminded Mr Mable of how his grandma used to look at his IPhone.

I wait at the table, wondering how long my child will take? I am teaching him to hold a pencil but he keeps dropping it like a flake. You see there is dead end that our power tension has reached and suddenly everything has stopped working as the internet has been breached.

We are the last of our generation who knew what wonders body and mind can do. Their combination used to be ecstatic, a feeling my son never understood. We talked about invention and wrote some poetry; but all I see in him are zombie eyes that follow the phone's trajectory. Oh yes, there are some good things that technology got along, but now no one ever reads a book or hums into a song.

From Wheels to Deals, from travel to shovel, from books to business we had our embodied energy to harness. We could work in ice boxes and brave the heat of boiling metal furnace. But here I am struggling with the advancement of humankind, he has used his fingers so much on games that my son has lost his mind.

His friends laugh when they see a book, they try not to hold it. Their hands are not used to paper, nor do they know how to fold it?

It may seem so okay, when the child is just five and wants to play,

But here I talk about a man of twenty, digitalized and confined to a wireless array.

Studies, of course he did, but I no notebook to proudly show the ten on ten,

Everything is on-line or cloud nine, and at twenty he can no more hold a pen.

But us mother's always have hidden, a trick or two up our sleeve,

I agreed with him that internet is dead, for sometime let him grieve,

Then gave an apt knuckle on his head, and dragged the sombre man out of bed,

I made it clear in my Momster tone, "No work then you will not be fed."

He was aghast, to live in ways of past, and even considered me as bonkers because of grey.

I made it clear in a tone to fear, "Work or in this house, you won't stay!"

"the future of education, as disrupted by tech..."

This statement couldn't be anymore true. Even the present way of educating children has been interrupted by the never ending upgrades and updates of the latest technological advances. What happened to the days where children walked over to a bookshelf and picked up a physical book to read? Instead they are too absorbed in the latest Snapchat filter or the new reaction button of Facebook. What happened to the days when students actually read the book for their book report instead of relying on SparkNotes to get a brief summary of a book that could have taught them a wonderful lesson.

My little sister said to me the other day, "I can't learn anything without technology. I'm never going to get what the teachers are teaching me with book reports and worksheets, I need technology." Students now have this mindset that they need technology to learn everything. What have we done? Why have we done this to the newer generations. We place students in front of screens instead of books. We rely on YouTube videos and PowerPoint presentations to teach them instead of physically writing the notes on the board.

Teachers should be interacting with the students and making sure they understand the content of the lesson being taught. Students should be reading books, taking physical notes, and asking questions instead of relying on their computers and Googling all the answers.

I am a student encumbered by flesh,

To transcend the flesh is my singular wish.

So happily, skippily, pop-pop those pills

right down my fat gullet, pop-pop them I will!

Pop-pop them I shall, for some Chaucer and Plato!

The light-purple pill teaches me all 'bout tomatoes.

So are they a veggie, or are they a fruit?

I only eat pills now, so that point's quite moot.

This funny-shaped pill might teach me DNA--

only, I've hit my limit of pills for today.

It fills me with grief and it fills me with sorrow

to put off pop-popping that pill 'til tomorrow...

So TEACHERS-- to fill all our hearts with ELATION,

Bring out them PILLS-- let's pop-pop EDUCATION!

                                 Think about the state of music 300 years ago. 

No radio, no records, no CDs, no MP3s, no iTunes nor Spotifies. Music - like just about everything - has been disrupted and advanced by technological invention. Education has not yet been disrupted and advanced in such a significant way. So what is in store? 

        Ironically, a credit store -

                many credit stores offered by many digital school ecosystems, in fact -

                       the apotheosis of academics into appademics. 

Granted, many skills require direct, physical, or kinesthetic cultivation. Many also do not. Take law, for instance. Now imagine learning the law by reading it, and being able to prove how much of it you have learned, retained, mastered by means of some technology that is to learning the language of law what Duolingo is to learning any foreign language. 

In this future, you will have immediate access to all knowledge, skills, disciplines, and the degrees officially representing your mastery of them. The educational ecosystem will consist of private and public organizations allowing anyone to afford online, accredited education wherein the prestige or exclusivity of one's school no longer means anything, but instead, simply, what percentage of any given skill or area of knowledge one demonstrates to know via using this new technology. In other words, it will not matter if you learned the law via Harvard or Coursera:

What will matter is your actual merit, how much of the law you technically demonstrate to know. The entire accreditation system and process will be aligned with this principle.