The Future of Teaching

Today teachers and students are learning in traditional classrooms as well as using technology in the learning process.  In the not so far away future, classrooms may be virtually everywhere and the use of technology will be a constant.  Students as well as teachers will be digital natives and not a combination of digital natives and immigrants.  The following chart shows one view of; where we were, where we are, and where we will be in the future.

Moving beyond Education 2.0

By John Moravec | 2/15/2008 | Filed under: Featured, General

There’s a lot of talk about mov­ing to “Ed­u­ca­tion 2.0″ –but, what would Ed­u­ca­tion 3.0 look like?

Here’s my take on the Ed­u­ca­tion 1.0 – 3.0 spec­trum:

	Ed­u­ca­tion 1.0	Ed­u­ca­tion 2.0	Ed­u­ca­tion 3.0
Mean­ing is…	Dic­tated	So­cially con­structed	So­cially con­structed and con­tex­tu­ally rein­vented
Tech­nol­ogy is…	Con­fis­cated at the class­room door (dig­i­tal refugees)	Cau­tiously adopted (dig­i­tal im­mi­grants)	Every­where (dig­i­tal uni­verse)
Teach­ing is done …	Teacher to stu­dent	Teacher to stu­dent and stu­dent to stu­dent (pro­gres­sivism)	Teacher to stu­dent, stu­dent to stu­dent, stu­dent to teacher, peo­ple-tech­nol­ogy-peo­ple (co-con­struc­tivism)
Schools are lo­cated…	In a build­ing (brick)	In a build­ing or on­line (brick and click)	Every­where (thor­oughly in­fused into so­ci­ety: cafes, bowl­ing al­leys, bars, work­places, etc.)
Par­ents view schools as…	Day­care	Day­care	A place for them to learn, too
Teach­ers are…	Li­censed pro­fes­sion­als	Li­censed pro­fes­sion­als	Every­body, every­where
Hard­ware and soft­ware in schools…	Are pur­chased at great cost and ig­nored	Are open source and avail­able at lower cost	Are avail­able at low cost and are used pur­po­sively
In­dus­try views grad­u­ates as…	As­sem­bly line work­ers	As ill-pre­pared as­sem­bly line work­ers in a knowl­edge econ­omy	As co-work­ers or en­tre­pre­neurs

   With this idea of what education will look like in the future there are also changes in the standards that will need to be followed.  One standard for math that will most likely be the one most easily implemented is Standard 3.  Standard 3 is research and information fluency.  This encompasses students to apply digital tools to gather, evaluate, and use information.  Students will have to apply strategies to guide questions, locate, organize, analyze, evaluate and use information from a variety of sources.