I feel as though technology has already changed education so much from when I was in school, and we are going to be seeing big changes in the near future. I am excited to see what future holds for education and how we can continue to change the way we educate future students. I also feel that education is changing in the way we reach students, classrooms are becoming more student centred as well as inquiry based.
The K-12 Horizon Report points out certain key trends;
- Education paradigms are shifting to include online learning, hybrid learning, and collaborative models.
- Social media is changing the way people interact, present ideas and information, and communicate.
- Openness — concepts like open content, open data, and open resources, along with notions of transparency and easy access to data and information — is becoming a value.
- As the cost of technology drops and school districts revise and open up their access policies, it is becoming more common for students to bring their own mobile devices.
- The abundance of resources and relationships made easily accessible via the Internet is challenging us to revisit our roles as educators.
Some of the challenges that come along with these trends are also outlined in this report. Key challenges include;
- Ongoing professional development needs to be valued and integrated into the culture of the schools.
- Too often it is education’s own practices that limit broader uptake of new technologies.
- New models of education are bringing unprecedented competition to traditional models of schooling.
- K-12 must address the increased blending of formal and informal learning.
- The demand for personalized learning is not adequately supported by current technology or practices.
- We are not using digital media for formative assessment the way we could and should.
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