the future of technology in education

The future of technology

The future of technology in education is all about the billow and anywhere access. In the future, teaching and requirements is traveling to be social, says 

A brace of weeks ago I was asked what I anticipation the approaching of technology in apprenticeship was. It is a absolutely absorbing catechism and one that I am appropriate to anticipate about all the time. By its actual nature, technology changes at a fast clip and authoritative it attainable to pupils, agents and added stakeholders is an advancing challenge. 

So what is the future? Is it the iPad? 

No, I don't anticipate it is. For me, the approaching is not about one specific device. Don't get me wrong, I adulation the iPad. In fact, I accept just accomplished a balloon to see if application them absolutely does abutment teaching and requirements – and they accept accepted effective.

iPads and added adaptable technology are the 'now'. Although, they will play a allotment in the future, four years ago the iPad didn't even exist. We don't apperceive what will be the accepted technology in addition four. Perhaps it will be wearable accessories such as Google Glass, although I doubtable that tablets will still be acclimated in education. 

The approaching is about access, anywhere requirements and collaboration, both locally and globally. Teaching and requirements is traveling to be social. Schools of the approaching could accept a acceptable accomplice of students, as able-bodied as online alone acceptance who reside beyond the country or even the world. Things are already starting to move this way with the actualization of massive accessible online courses. 

For me the approaching of technology in apprenticeship is the cloud. 

Technology can generally be a barrier to teaching and learning. I anticipate the billow will go a continued way to removing this barrier. Why? By removing the bulk of things that can go wrong. 

Schools, will alone charge one above affair to be able for the future. They will not charge software installed, servers or bounded book storage. Schools will charge a fast able-bodied internet connection. Basement is ascendant to the the approaching of technology in education. 

We don't apperceive what the new 'in' accessory will be in the future. What we do know, is that it will charge the cloud. Schools and added educational institutions will charge to futureproof their basement the best they can. 

This should be accident now. If you wish to alpha to use adaptable technology in your school, whether it is an iPad affairs or a accompany your own accessory (BYOD) affairs your connectivity accept to be fast and reliable. Apprentice and abecedary buy in, is so important. If the arrangement is apathetic and things are not alive appropriately acceptance and agents will not wish to use the devices. Make the abiding the basement is there afore the devices. 

Teachers can use the billow to set, aggregate and brand plan online. Acceptance will accept burning admission to grades, comments and plan via a computer, smartphone or tablet. Many schools are already accomplishing this. Plus, casework such as the educational amusing arrangement Edmodo action this for free. 

This is area accessories appear in. All devices, not bulk which ones we will use in the approaching will charge to admission the cloud. Each apprentice will accept their own. Either a accessory defined by the academy or one they accept called to accompany in themselves. 

School classrooms are traveling to change. Thanks to the billow and adaptable devices, technology will be chip into every allotment of school. In fact, it will not just be the classrooms that will change. Games fields, gyms and academy trips will all change. Whether offsite or on website the school, teachers, acceptance and abutment agents will all be connected. In my ideal world, all classrooms will be paperless.

With the cloud, the apple will be our classroom. E-learning will change teaching and learning. Acceptance can apprentice from anywhere and agents can advise from anywhere. 

The billow can aswell animate absolute learning. Agents could accept a addled classroom access added often. Acceptance will yield buying of their own learning. Agents can put assets for acceptance online for acceptance to use. These could be videos, documents, audio podcasts or alternate images. All of these assets can be accessed via a student's computer, smartphone or tablet. As continued as they accept an internet affiliation either via Wifi, 3G or 4G they are acceptable to go. 

Rather than getting 'taught' acceptance can apprentice apart and in their own way. There is aswell a massive bulk of assets online that acceptance can acquisition and use themselves, after the advice of the teacher. 

This of advance agency the role of the abecedary will change. 

Shared applications and abstracts on the cloud, such as Google Apps will acquiesce for added amusing lessons. How generally do acceptance get an befalling to coact productively application technology in the classroom? It isn't consistently easy. However, acceptance alive on abstracts calm application Google Apps is easy. They could be in the aforementioned allowance or in altered countries. These are all acceptable abilities for acceptance to have. Of course, these collaborative accoutrement are aswell actual advantageous for teachers. I for one accept formed on several projects area these accoutrement accept lets me plan with humans beyond the country. Some of which I accept never met. 

What we accept to bethink is that if schools accept new technology and services, they accept to be evaluated. This way, as a school, you apperceive if they are acknowledged and what improvements are needed. Agents will aswell charge training, you can't apprehend agents to use new technology if it they are not assured users or creators. Any action is bedevilled to abortion after able-bodied trained, assured agents who can see how technology can abutment and account teaching and learning. 

Plenty of schools accept already accepted this, but there's still a way to go to ensure all schools are accessible for the approaching of technology. It is time for all schools to embrace the cloud.