Future of Education and Technology (Week 14)

Technology and Education: What will the future bring?

Technology is an ever growing tool that is at the disposal of future teachers. It is important that we as teachers realize that education can be improved significantly with the proper use of new technologies. "Educational research will undergo massive paradigm shifts we can only imagine. Because we live in a revolutionary time of astonishing advances in technologies, a world of constant and unrelenting change, new paradigms appear before the implications of their predecessors are digested. We know that schools must make changes to accommodate the technology revolution. Many are already making changes in curriculum, teaching, and learning." It is important that schools as well as teachers understand this shift in education. If we continue to somewhat "fight" technological advancements then we may hinder our students. Technology should not completely run the classroom but it should be an influential teaching piece. I believe that if as our generation takes over the classroom technology will be used with much more prevalence. "As David Thornburg reminds us, we are preparing children for their future, not our own past." I believe that's a significant quote because that is exactly what technology creates. It creates unlimited possibilities that we as people must accept and work with. If we fight technology we will hurt our students.