What is the Future of Technology? How does this impact me?

Technology is one aspect of the 21st century that is extremely hard to predict where it will be in the near or far future for teachers.  However, it does quit frankly affect me.  Here are my thoughts on the future of technology despite this debate that takes places.  I think that teachers are going to move towards the new smart-boards in classrooms as well as start to use different approaches to distributing literature and different levels will be accessible as we continue teaching higher and lower level learners. Technology may affect the way that I teach because it can be hard to depict which style of learning I will be enforcing in my classroom, more standards based or curriculum, or free to be general and apply it to certain aspects of education.  My teaching will set the tone for whether some of the students succeed in certain areas or not and thus, new technology can be a crazy thing to rely on as it is constantly in new paradigm shifts. So as a teacher I am going to be a lifelong learner as I continue to be the best I can be.  When new things come out, I want to access whether or not it will be beneficial to my class or not and take a look at it, we just need to be careful not to just up and accept it right away if it develops students who do not think for themselves like we want them too. We do not want to create people who do not have the wisdom of knowledge when they are not with their computers.  We need to develop students into very cognitive thinkers full of integrity to face the hard spots in life with a confident attitude.