When talking about the future of education I barely know where to begin (I haven't even begun teaching yet and you want me to talk about the future!). The obvious answer will be that it will be more tech based and the traditional classroom will be no more. We were actually talking about this in Shelley's Student Literacy class last week. Shelley asked us what we think the classroom will look like in 25-30 years near the end of our careers. Shelley mentioned somewhere along the lines of (not a direct quote) that she wouldn't be surprised if there were any permanent classrooms left by that time. What she meant was, that she thinks a lot of the learning might take place on the internet through online based learning. Obviously there will still be school, but not how they look now. Next she asked us what about something like libraries in the school, what will happen to those? There is no doubt that by the end of our careers everything you need in a library will be online and everyone will have a device to access these resources. As a class we came to the conclusion that libraries will probably still be there because they are already there so they probably won't just get rid of them, but the amount of use they get will drop dramatically.
In the Horizon Report it talks about coding becoming a literacy. It mentions that this is part of the short-term plan. I think this is something that will be in high-schools in the next 3-5 years probably. As technology grows being able to code becomes more and more important. Also being able to code will open the doors to many future employment opportunities. It also talks about Virtual Reality in the next 3-5 years. This is something that I can foresee happening as well. Daniel already talked about how he is using it in his classroom and I think it will be used more and more as the years go on.
Overall, I am super excited about the future of education and I am even more excited that I get to play a vital role in it.
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