What's a typewriter?

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I remember students walking in the computer lab 'back in the day' with their 3.5" floppy disks all ready to print out their word processor document for a class assignment.  To their dismay, there wasn't a single computer in the room with a floppy disk drive.  It was Apple's way of 'forcing' change by not including a floppy drive on their new, colorful, bubble-shaped iMacs.  The floppy was all the storage students they thought they ever needed.

This was really only a short time after our seniors would stop in the high school office to pick up scholarship forms only to have to hunt down a typewriter to type in their information.   Now, why would anyone use a typewriter on a document that was created on a computer?  It seems like such an odd question now.

In the last couple of years I have noticed very few students pulling their USB flash drives out in class.  Data, documents, pictures, and projects are now normally saved to either their Google Drive or a school server account.   Multimedia projects are commonplace now and take up a vastly larger amount of space than those old floppy's did.

Today's technology tools have provided so many amazing opportunities in education.  We look to the innovators of today to figure out what the next evolution will be.  We have a big challenge in figuring out how that next chapter will read.