The classrooms of today are quite different from those of decades past. While their parents sat at desks watching a teacher write notes on a chalkboard, today’s students can watch their teacher’s lessons projected onto a screen directly from the teacher’s computer. Such technology is being used with greater frequency in classrooms as the districts are making room in their budgets for the materials. As technology becomes more readily available, the schools of the future will likely embrace it even more.

The schools of the future will see students interact more with their teacher and possibly other classrooms. Right now, the technology is being tested in some districts which provides the students with a remote they can use to answer the questions projected onto a screen. The teacher can get the real time results from the entire classroom for the answer to a problem. That way he is better able to determine if the whole class is grasping the concept, and if not, who needs additional help.

Already many schools have computer labs, but the schools of the future will have laptop computers in every classroom for every student. Perhaps these could even be built into the desktops with touch screens which will connect the student’s computer directly to the teacher’s. This technology could allow the teacher to more closely monitor all the students’ work from his desk.

The possibilities are endless for the schools of the future, and only technology and time will tell what is on the horizon for education.

We’d like to thank Miss Sue Lang on this contribution to our web page.