Being Home Sick and Staying Caugt Up.

As I was reading Mr.Fich's blog "H1N1, Skype, And A Possible Tipping Point". He was stating that it is getting to the point where just because you are sick does not mean that you should be behind. I found it to be quite interesting how people who are home sick can stay connected through skype. This matters to me because if I was sick I could stay caught up. As you get farther in education the more you miss the harder it is to get caught up. Other people should care about this because if they are sick then it would be less like missing school. The turning point of this is that we might not have to go to school because teachers can skype their teachings. We can watch when ever we want but on the other side there are some negatives because students might not do their work, people who need help wouldn't get help as easily and it would be harder to communicate with teachers. This makes me wonder if before I graduate, if we will have skype network or if we will actually have to go to school. Some background knowledge I have is that you need the child teacher interactions and student to student interactions so this makes me wonder if when skype learning network actually happens if youth social abilities will be lower because they don't have to communicate as much with others. This also makes me wonder how teachers are going to grade papers and if all of the teachers assignments will be in internet/computer form. This really got me thinking about how technology and sickness will change our learning environment. This also got me thinking that technology will change our learning because we will not have to carry home text books and we will always have what we need preaty much wherever we are.