Digital classroom?

Something I've been thinking about lately has been about digital technology and classrooms, similar to what we did a few weeks about by holding out "virtual classroom", which was similar to a chat room. I think with the emergence of online classes, more and more subject will use that sort of thing. For example, there are a lot of classes, like my nutrition one, that you don't really get a whole lot out of going to class that will help you on your exam. The teacher reads off the lecture notes, adds in comments about certain bullets and ideas, and our exams are just based solely off the lecture notes. Now a class like that, you have the recording posted online, the notes posted online, so why bother going? I have attended all the classes but one this semester. You can basically "attend" the class at home later, just plug in your headphones and turn on the powerpoint notes on your computer. The only difference is that this can be anytime, but the live class is only at9:45 am.

I think more and more classes will do this, and eventually there won't be as many classes that need instructors to conduct live classes, rather online classes. The virtual classroom was a little bit chaotic, as it's hard to interact online rather than in person, but it did allow for more elaborate ideas that possibly in person. This is because you have time to type, delete, cut, paste, modify, etc etc and you don't have that option speaking.

So i guess it's not as likely to have virtual classrooms in the future as it is general online classes that they have now, but plenty more in my opinion are on it's way. I think this just adds to digital media because students won't have to actually sit down in a desk with their other students and attend class, making it convienient for them, but at the same time doesn't this make you think that technology is just making us more lazy? E-mail seems to be more old-fasioned with the emergence of text messaging, facebook, and twitter. Does anyone even remember AIM???????

this can be also seen with banks.... tellers as opposed to ATMs, at grocery stores with "virtual checkout", etc it seems like there are some jobs that can be replaced now with technology.