With just one look at our children we can realize how their future will be very different from the rest. The advances in technology and the ease with which they have adapted to it give us a fairly clear picture of the near future.
Of course, education is not going to be something that remains indifferent to these changes, as we already have in this article. Today we are going to deepen all the technology that has just emerged, the recognition of gestures; technology on which the already famous tablets and smartphones are based. Today we'll see seven aspects in which gesture recognition technology will revolutionize education.
He has just arrived at our homes, but an indispensable gap has already been made in many of them and there are even those who no longer conceive (or do not remember) of life before the touch screens.
For my children everything is already tactile, even what is not. It is to see a screen and start interacting with what comes out on it (which makes it have a television with more fingerprints than a bar). But I cannot reproach them for anything, since it is natural to touch what you want to play, move, etc.
Increase student interest
A student who is active and participant is a student who is attentive to what he does. Nowadays, classes consist of keeping the student sitting in his place, with this technology the student can move from one side to another and interact with the environment around him.
It allows a very specialized training
Learning about how to do a job is necessary, but many times we need to play, we need to move from theory to practice. Driving heavy machinery, operating in certain environments requires creating costly simulation environments that would be significantly cheaper with this technology.
Enter a virtual tour
Many times we have seen in science fiction films as sometimes the protagonist plays with a three-dimensional image of what he wants to see, touching it and accessing spaces without actually being there. All that will be possible in the near future.
Fake music learning
Many studies have shown the benefit of music in learning and for many years it has been included in the curricula of many countries. However, in many of them they have had to restrict this learning due to the extra cost involved in the purchase of musical instruments. This technology allows the cost of learning this subject to be reduced to a very small part.
Foster trust in a safe environment
Many environments can be intimidating and even dangerous for students, however practicing in these types of situations can be vital for learning. The technology puts at our disposal the emulation of these environments eliminating that danger from the real environment.
It allows the interaction of several users at the same time
In a conventional class, the interaction between student and teacher or between student and the subject of study is usually one to one, making the rest of students have to wait their turn. With this type of technology, multiple interaction is enabled allowing the entire class to be present in the lesson at the same time.
It makes learning fun
One of the great problems we face when teaching is maintaining the interest of the student. Not all teachers have the capacity to, in a manner of speaking, keep their audience interested in the explanation, but through virtual interaction the student can be entertained for longer, especially the youngest ones, more given explanations Empirical than theoretical.
