The
Classroom of the Future
It is very important that school districts
keep up in the ever changing technology world.
In order to guarantee that our students are given the opportunities to compete
in the world of tomorrow each school district needs to ensure that all teachers
are comfortable and well versed in the latest technology trends. Schools are turning to the NMC Horizon Report
to advise them on the technologies of the future. Johnson, L., Adams, S., and Cummins, M.
(2012) explains that “The NMC Horizon Report: 2012 K-12 Edition, examines
emerging technologies for their potential impact on and use in teaching,
learning, and creative inquiry within the environment of pre-college education.”
This report is a positive approach to aiding school districts into becoming
proactive for the future.
In the future our classes are going to be
working more with Cloud Computing. The
possibilities are endless. On the
website Cloud Computing For All it explains that it will be “having all the
information, data or software stored in servers on the internet (instead in
your local hard drive) and then it is cached temporarily on the user’s
computer, desktop, notebooks, and mobile devices every time the information or
data is being accessed.” Students will
be able to access their information at home, in the library, in the coffee shop
or anywhere they are able to access the internet. Students will be able to work collaboratively
on projects or essays and they don’t have to be in the same room, the same
town, or even in the same country.
Non-open
and open sources are being developed that will be used throughout our future
classrooms. Some of those already used
are Moodle, Web 2.0, Sakai, and Dokeos to name a few. Many
of these will eventually be incorporated in both open source and non-open
source learning management systems.
(Wikiaeducation.com, 2009)
The video called Classroom Of The Future
HD: What's New in Educational Tech describes the classroom of the future with
ceiling mounted projectors that engage larger groups of learners, wall mounted
flat panels used to display computer based materials for smaller groups, and
mobile devices in various parts of the room.
Within the classroom there will have personal learning
environments. These environments were
described by Johnson et al. (2012) as “personal collections of tools and
resources a person assembles to support their own learning. Such things as smart phones, tablets and apps
are examples of things that have begun to emerge as a compelling alternative to
browser-based PLE’s and e-portfolios.”(p.9)
Therefor each student will not need to have a mobile device provided for
them. The goal in the future classroom
is to let the students have more control over how they learn in school.
The furniture will need to be lightweight
and movable because collaboration will be a large part of the future classroom. Interactivity between students will become
prevalent in the future classroom. Students
will be leading the discussions. Teachers
will be moving around the room listening to the discussions and only guiding if
needed.
I think Ignacio
"Nacho" Estrada said it best when he said, “If a child can't learn
the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn." This quote
helps me to describe why our classrooms should be using game based
learning. In the next five years will be
using game based learning as an integral part of the education process. Students today are in a never ending game
world. Educators will be using this fact
to reach all students at all different levels.
These games give students a chance to submerge themselves and become a
part of the solution. Goal oriented
games will center around concepts that the students of today feel are
important. The TEKS will still be the
blueprint for the lessons that the teachers will teach but relevant real life
experiences that interest our students will be used. These lessons will motivate the students to become
successful at their own pace while they learn from their own failures. What a
perfect way to differentiate instruction.
The classroom of the future has already
started. Many classrooms have the
ceiling mounted projectors, computers, and are participating in the BYOD. We are on our way to the classroom that is
designed around students leading the learning with the latest technology at our
fingertips. Cloud computing, open
sources, mobile devices and students driven discussions are only the beginning
of the changes that we will be seeing in the next 5 years. There is no time to waste because it is
already upon us. Educators need to be
incorporating as much as they can because we cannot let the world move on without
us.
References
Classroom Of The Future HD: What's New in
Educational Tech [Video file]. (2007, September
12).
Retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcXEznPXj8k&feature=youtu.be
Estrada, I., (2012, March 1). Quotes Cafe. Retrieved on November 3, 2013 from
http://quotescafe.com/quotes/ignacio_estrada/
Johnson, L., Adams, S., & Cummins, M.. (2012).
The 2012 Horizon Report: K-12
Edition.
Austin, Texas: The New Media Consortium.
What is Cloud Computing? An easy definition of Cloud
Computing. (n.d.). Cloud Computing
For All.
Retrieved November 3, 2013, from http://cloudcomputingforall.com/what-is-cloud-
computing-an-easy-definition-of-cloud-computing/
Wikiaeducation.com. (nd). Course management systems.
Retrieved on November 17, 2009, from
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