Holograms

As the dangers of this virus seem to increase on a daily basis, work, school and social life has changed immensely. In a world where every second outside puts your life in danger, the government has forced all non-essentials to stay home. Schools are closed and are participating in strictly online education. Jobs that are able to function online are also taking this approach. In order to accomplish this, over the last several decades, the government has been pouring vast amounts of funding into technologies such as holograms.

Students are able to learn from the comfort of their own homes. Each individual school board has sent out to all homes, a hologram system for the children to “actively” be a part of their learning. The catch to this system is that the parents themselves are to contribute to half of the expense of the holographic system. This is not only having a detrimental impact on the financial viability of each school board, but it is also causing the financial divide between students to increase even more as families scramble to make ends meet. The school system, which was already divided based on skill/learning abilities, is being further divided between the haves and the have nots, as the school boards feel that it wouldn’t be appropriate to have a class where some kids were using holograms and some weren’t.

Regardless of how the students are able to obtain their education, they meet in their virtual classroom with their teacher to spend the day in class learning. In a class which uses holograms, the introduction of holographic learning has been a bit of a challenge. From something as simple as the novelty of it causing distracted students, to the uneven distribution of the technology due to the economics of it, teachers are finding the classroom dynamics to have shifted. The shift has gone from how and what the students learned based on learning styles, to now children (and their families) having an air of superiority over other families, as they are the “elite”. The classrooms where holographic education is a possibility, students are having a more in-depth and involved education, allowing for a deeper and more active understanding of the material being taught.

For the families unable to obtain a holographic system, education is administered through standard Zoom meetings and such. Although these students are still receiving an acceptable education, it is definitely a lesser value than that of holographic education. Students who at one point, were receiving top education based on their skills and abilities, have now dropped down to a less advanced teaching due to socioeconomic factors, rather than ability.