Tech Task 12

The Future
What an exciting time to be a teacher, we have so many resources and technology available to us. As we move forward this will only continue to increase. In the immediate future I see schools all moving towards becoming 1 to 1 schools, meaning that each student has their own device. I have been in schools that already have this set up and it does create a whole new world of possibilities in your classroom. I really like a quote from the late Yogi Berra, "It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future". When it comes to technology it is improving so fast that it is difficult to try and even fathom what is possible. I found this video (shared below) and I used it in a presentation for our literacy class. It is about this innovative and interactive e-book, the video is a few years old and this book is actually available in the app store. When technology can make a book so engaging and hands on it really makes me question if we will have physical books in our future classrooms. I think that paper books are on the way out. When you think of each student having their own device, how easy would it be for each student to have all the books they need right on their device. One thing that I do not see happening is teachers losing jobs because of the prevalence of technology. Yes students have more information available to them but that has just changed the role of the teacher. Instead of providing the content for students the teacher has shifted to be more of a facilitator of learning. Think of it from the digital book perspective, yes they may replace physical books. But the students will still need to be able to read regardless of what format the book is in. Look further into the future, say 20 years down the line, it will be interesting to see what our roles look like as educators. I think we will see a lot of change in that time but as long as we embrace the change we will be just fine.