Blog Entry #5

The likelihood of technological advances used to replace human jobs seems to be getting closer to reality. Examples of this can already be found when you think about teachers. Years ago, all education was done and learned in a classroom setting. Now, online classes are becoming a lot more popular especially in college. It used to be thought that students needed to be taught by a teacher in a classroom with peers learning at their same pace, but it is now seen that students prefer to learn at their own place online.

This seems to be the case since people are becoming a lot more competitive and are able to do a lot more things at once. Students are becoming more interested in obtaining real-world experience in their fields of study and becoming more independent by self-supporting themselves. Students' busy schedules force them to find the need for online classes or self-learning through textbooks. Use of technology in classrooms has significantly grown in approximately the past 5-8 years. School assignment submissions are changing from hard-copy to online submission. Very soon, students might be changing to all online classes and by this drastically lowering demand for teachers.  

If this is accurate, teachers will have a very hard time finding jobs due to the low demand for teachers. Therefore, the United States will be experiencing a tough economic meltdown with a lot of citizens getting unemployment and benefits. The government will be obligated to provide aid to these professionals who cannot find a job and therefore raise taxes for everyone to provide for these people. This situation will have a very negative effect for teachers, taxpayers and the government.