Future technology in Education
The document discusses several emerging technologies being adopted in K-12 classrooms: Cloud computing is allowing schools to outsource infrastructure like email and backups to cloud providers. Mobiles, especially smartphones and tablets, give ubiquitous access to information and tools for learning. Game-based learning spans from small-group board games to massive multiplayer online games. Open content initiatives share curricula and learning materials to reduce education costs. Learning analytics use student data to improve teaching in real time. Personal learning environments let students customize their learning approach and pace. Challenges include addressing high costs, training staff for new technologies, and bridging the gap between personalized learning demands and available technology.
Future technology in Education
- 2. Cloud Computing Now schools are looking to outsource significant parts of their infrastructure, such as email and backups, to cloud providers. Together, these developments have contributed considerably to the adoption of cloud computing approaches at K-12 schools across the globe.
- 3. Mobiles Mobiles, especially Smartphone and tablets, enable ubiquitous access to information, social networks tools for learning and productivity, and hundreds of thousands of software tools that make use of their * Accelerometers * Compasses * Cameras * Microphones * GPS * and other sensors
- 4. Game-based learning Games for education span the range from single-player or small-group card and board games all the way to massively multiplayer online games and alternate reality games. Those at the first end of the spectrum are easy to integrate into the curriculum, and have long been an option in many schools
- 5. Open content Is the current form of a movement that began a decade ago, when universities such as MIT began to make their course content freely available. Ten years later, school have also begun to share a significant amount of curricula, resources and learning materials. The open content movement is increasingly a response to the rising costs of education, to provide access to learning in areas where such access is difficult
- 6. Learning analytics Analytic techniques to study students engagement, performance, and progress in practice, with the goal of using what is learned to revise curricula, teaching and assessment in real time. Building on the kinds of information generated by Google Analytics and other similar tools
- 7. Personal Learning Environments Refer to student-designed learning approaches that encompass different types of content – videos, applications, games, social media tools and more. Chosen by students to match his or her personal learning style and pace. The goal is for students to have more control over how they learn and for teachers to set expectations that their students will be more engaged in understanding and applying their learning strategies
- 8. What are the Challenges for us
- 9. Abundance of Resource The abundance of resources and relationships made easily accessible via the Internet is increasingly challenging us to revisit our roles as educators
- 10. High Cost Cost for new technologies are continuously increasing
- 11. Trained Staff Very few talented people are entering the education sector
- 12. Gap between Demand & Technology upgradation The demand for personalized learning is not adequately supported by current technology or practices
- 13. Learners have increasing opportunities to take their education into theirown hands, and options like informal education, online education, and home-based learning are attracting students away from traditional educational settings