2038 Is Already Here by Ryan

2038 Is Already Here by Ryan - February 2018 Scholarship Essay

My name is Ryan Heilman. I go to Legacy High School in Bismarck, ND. I know that is something that is asked above, but I believe that what my school is doing right now is the future for educating the students of America. Legacy is the first high school in the country to be 100% based on computers and not books. Below are the reasons why this is an important step in future education.

At Legacy High School, kids don't carry around big and heavy backpacks. An average student will have some notebooks, folders, and a Google Chromebook. No books. Legacy is also one of the few schools to not have a traditional schedule with 8 periods, but 24 periods that are 20 minutes long each, to represent a more college schedule. Legacy is the first of its kind and I love it.

I have multiple friends who go to the neighboring schools in Bismarck, and I don't know if I could the same way they do and have the same grades I have. With using a computer,I have not only raised my grades, I learned how to get my way around the Internet, Google, Word Doc., and Microsoft.

Books are out of style. Books can only give so much information. Not only that but they get worn out, damaged, and vandalized. With PCs a student can look up videos to help with a class, or a new way to do something that he might find more helpful. Two or more students can also join programs like Google Hangout, where the students can collaborate to work on a group project or just a simple homework assignment.

Not only is it easier for students but teachers as well. Teachers can join programs like Google Classroom, so that the students can all get online in one page and read homework assignments, watch videos, or look at announcements that the teacher has posted. This way if a teacher forgets to assign homework, or remind them of something that the teacher just learned about.

As the Internet grows, students are going to have to learn how to adapt to it. This is the best way to do it. Not only starting in high school but junior high school. The Internet isn't something that would even be hard to introduce to today's youth. The kids would have an easy time transitioning to it or maybe even know exactly what to do already.

Statistics show that in 25 years, 40% of the jobs today won't exist. As the world advances farther and farther into the future, it would be fair to say that those new jobs will consist of using the internet in some kind of way. The nation is going to realize that students need to have a better education and a better future. The world is moving in the direction towards a better tomorrow with technology like it has been since the start of time. Now is just different only in the way so that it has never seen before.

In conclusion, because of what Legacy High School offers right now, any student graduating from this school has an upper hand on the rest of the high school graduates. Granted, could the country do this right now to every public high school in the right now? Yes, of course it could. The problem is that it will take this long for the nation to realize that this has become a need over a want.