10 Years ago we never thought CD players would be replaced by iPods. Now we are wondering what will be obsolete 10 years from now. My professor e-mailed our class an article written by Ian Jukes yesterday with predictions of what would be extinct within the next decade. The article is titled, "21 Things That Will Be Obsolete By 2020." I could not believe what their predictions were! I can't even imagine how much this will effect how and what we will be teaching in just a few years.
Paper--gone. We are moving on to Kindles and paper-less classes. Although this is Eco-friendly, I will miss the feeling of turning a page in a book or handing in an actual paper to be graded. Well since there is no paper, Jukes says we are not even going to have a thing called homework!! Us, as educators will have to think of other ways to assess students with individual work I guess! Computers will even not exist in 2020!? Handheld devices will replace these dinosaur computers.
Teachers who do not know how to incorporate technology to personalize their lessons will soon be out of a job. This shows us the importance of practicing with technology now so we won't fall behind in the tech world later on. Attendance offices will vanish within the next few years, Jukes says. He believes that there will be bio scans to keep track of who is attending school. This will save time in the classroom because we won't have to set aside time to take attendance, but I cannot imagine all parents being comfortable with this idea, or all children being brave enough to be body scanned by a foreign object.
Schools will soon be educating not by grade but by learning level. Schools will become more "home based" so they will be smaller and greener. There will be less people on campuses at one time. With this, Parent-Teacher conferences will be gone too. Technology will make it easier for parents and teachers to continually connect with each other.
Although these are all just predictions made by one man, it should open our eyes as future educators to realize the importance of technology in the classroom. We need to keep up-to-date with the ways education is changing.
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I read an article very similar to this except it was about the businesses in America that probably won't be around in the next 10 years (like BlockBuster). I think it's really interesting how much things change right before our eyes. I myself already have a Kindle, a smart phone, and an iPod. It's crazy to think that these things replaced books, a land line, and a radio. I can't even begin to imagine what else will be introduced to us.
ReplyDeleteI read this article, as well. It's kind of frightening how much will change or that they assume will change in only a few years. I think technology is a great advancement for various reasons, however, I still think having face-to-face interactions is more important than meeting virtually and only communicating online. Technology isn't always beneficial. For example, I learn better when I physically write on paper and doing everything online isn't always helpful to me.
ReplyDeleteAmy, I kind of miss the feeling of paper as well and it does seem everyone and everything is making their way into an "eco friendly" environment. Technology is advancing more than we realize! Bio-scans, what an interesting way of taking attendance in a classroom, simple pen and paper will be removed before we know it. Also I have to agree with Veronica I found it is better for me to sometimes write things out with a pen and paper then to just type the material.
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