Monday, July 6, 2009

My Classroom in 2020

My classroom in the year 2020 might not be a classroom at all. Although I would plan to stay in the field of education, it might take me outside of the classroom. But, if I were to stay in the classroom there would be some major differences, but also some similarities.

Looking at education's history, I think that I still would have a traditional seeming classroom with a teacher and students, desks and chairs. However, it would be enhanced with technology. I would imagine that there would be much less paper and more media storage devices used and use of the Internet to turn in assignments etc. Although this is something that is already being done, things often take a long time to trickle down and become the norm. There would probably be more computers being used in the classrooms and I would be a much better teacher. I also anticipate more resources for students being available online. Like college courses where notes, lectures and other material is uploaded to a class site and students can access the information at different times and different locations. While this is already being done, I imagine it'll become the norm and much more advanced and accessible than it is now.