Technology is constantly advancing and changing everything around us including education. In a few years, students will truly be learning all the time, everywhere. As I read online articles regarding teaching in the future, they made references to flipped classrooms, cloud-based learning, further gamification of education, augmented reality, virtual reality, and holograms. Imagine being able to take an immersive virtual tour of the Smithsonian Institute and being able to ask your virtual tour guide any question you want and get instant accurate answers? Technology will give us very rich personalized learning experiences anytime and everywhere so that students can learn more, faster, sooner and all OUTSIDE the classroom. Students can then come prepared to school to build and create things as well as to solve problems. Classroom time will be devoted almost entirely to hands-on, collaborative application of learning. Students can experiment, build with 3-D printers, and invent solutions to real problems. The classroom of tomorrow will be a high-tech vocational research experimentation laboratory.
As students learn more at younger ages, teachers of today who teach high school may only be qualified to teach middle school tomorrow. Teachers will have to take tech-heavy continuing education credits in order to keep developing the skills that their students are hoping to master. The saying “Those who can do; those who can’t teach” will cease to be said as teaching becomes doing. The future is exciting but demanding for teachers. Teachers will only survive if they continue to learn.
References
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Poh, Michael. (n.d.). 8 Technologies That Will Shape Future Classrooms. Retrieved June 26,
U.S. Department of Education, Office of Educational Technology. (January 2016) Future Ready
Learning: Reimagining the Role of Technology in Education. Retrieved June 26,2017 from
https://tech.ed.gov/files/2015/12/NETP16.pdf.
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