THE FUTURE... the unknown. Of course when we thought of the future growing up, we thought of flying cars and touch screen tv's and well part of that is kind of coming true. There has been serious amounts of growth in terms of technology and what exactly we can use it for. Slowly but surely we are stemming out of the realm of it just being purely "entertainment" to now it being something that we can use educationally. Children, at the age of 4, are being handed an IPAD to keep them busy. Children are becoming interactive with a device rbasically right from birth and that device will most likely be with them their whole lives so it is important that during their developmental period that they learn how to use it effectively. And this is where teachers come in! I think eventually each student is going to bring their own device to school and/or teachers will have different types of devices for the students to use. I do not think it will be entirely technology based but I truly believe that there may be a initialy surge of everything technology. Eventually it will calm down and educators will find a good balance between hands on learning and technology based learning.
The Horizon Report, reports of what exactly the key challenges are going to be for teachers in the next 5 years. I honestly believe that the upcoming educators will have the upperhand because we are being eduacted on these technological systems. Teachers that have been teaching for 30+ years may be less inclined to take a PD on technology in the classroom and/or really understand how to use it and how to use it effectively.
The future is technology... balanced amounts of technology!
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