I don't need to be here. Or do I?

In my opinion this notion of teachers being bankers who deposit their knowledge into the heads of the pupils is very outdated.

In the current day and age we live in it is possible for people to learn without always physically being in a classroom. Technology has progressed to such a point to where it makes learning away from the classroom a real and sensible possibility. Tech-mediated self-directed distance learning makes sense if you think about in the present time. There are a lot of people who are very keen on studying while they have a job but it becomes difficult when they work or live in a place far away from a learning institution like universities. Technology allows these people to do so. With the use of technology students can get the required study texts they need to learn the material on their own without having to be in a classroom. The use of technology can also enable the students to communicate with the rest of the learning community all around the world. Technology can also change the way we learn by allowing the communication and that can lead to experiments and research from different environments around the world so that different people can compare their findings in their space to those of the other people also carrying out the same experiment.

I think that the potential for such a learning experience is way more than we currently realise. The ability to share your learning and experience through the use of technology can make it possible for people from anywhere to work together on projects without ever meeting in real life.