Other advantages of using image processing in the classroom include enhanced teamwork skills and increased student enthusiasm. While image processing can't guarantee young people a seat on the next space shuttle, the students of two Minnesota colleagues did see their botany project included on a recent NASA launch. Students of physics instructor Steve Brehmer and biology instructor Elissa Elliott at Mayo High School in Rochester, MN used image processing to test a hypothesis concerning the growth of beans in a zero gravity environment. Image processing technology is an effective way to address this concern. Image processing uses computers to give students skills that are relevant in today's workplace.
Students demand more hands-on learning, and image processing is always fresh, never stale.
Both teachers and students continue to learn new things. Lots of people are already shareholders in this idea. Image processing is a tool that we can't neglect. It's going to take its place alongside traditional tools such as beakers and rulers. This is the revolution that the new millennium is bringing us.