A few decades from now how will teaching look like? How will schools be organized and what about learning materials? I strongly believe that if personalised learning is the future for K-12 schools publishers will go through an important transformation from one size fits all to offering solutions for teachers to tune the learning materials to the needs of their pupils. I wrote another article on that thought in this article Could this be the school of the future. Continue reading
I’m not talking about this building. Schools as we know them today will be visible only on foto’s and video’s in a museum in this new era. That century old concept will cease to exist. No longer will kids get crammed together in the same room for most of the day, harnessed by creativity-less curricula.
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I never thought that day would actually come. It all started a year ago with mixed feelings about the way I took written notes and converting them into reports, action points, next appointments, etc. on my laptop in my office. It was actually spending more time than needed.
EdSurge was started in 2011 by Betsy Corcoran, Matt Bowman, Nick Punt and Agustin Vilaseca to connect the emerging community of edtech entrepreneurs and educators. They want to share detailed information about what new technologies could–and could not–do to support learning.
Imagine that learning is no longer a burden but an interesting, challenging, fun trip on brain island and suppose you get control over your own learning.
Wouldn’t that be great? Wouldn’t that show respect for the learner?
What I thought would be easy interviews turned out to be quite challenging ones. The vision of the future of learning is projected from their own experienced references. These parents went to school in the rigid educational system where they were grouped by their year of birth and taught from the conformity viewpoint.
When I spoke in 2003 about using interactive whiteboards (IWB) in classrooms, not many people took me seriously. It was too expensive and there was no added value for the teachers and their pupils. Now (2015) more than 60 % of primary education schools in Flanders, Belgium have IWB in combination with a beamer installed. No, I don’t sell IWB’s nor beamers but the company I work at – VAN IN – does yearly research on that matter. This implementation of ICT seemed for many teachers very feasible thanks to the educational content that fits within the didactical processes and is provided by the educational publishers as addition to their methodes. So why will the IWB’s get replaced by smart touch tv’s in the future?
