Chapter 10 Reflection

In the year 2020 many things will change. From technology and books and if we went a bit further, the reduction of paper. Also a change that I predict will occur is we will no longer have traditional school desk, making room for computers.

Technology will change our schools completely. In fact, it already has but in the next decade, teachers will use computer programs even more so to teach lessons. Teachers will be using web based programs to post assignments or classroom bulletins. Seeing that this is through the World Wide Web, students will be able access their classroom information from anywhere. The school's curriculum will be more computer based than it is now. Computers today is how students learn and at the rate that technology is being introduced in schools, students will only be using computers with the teacher as the facilitator.
Teachers will be able to post the assignment for the day or week and with each student having a computer, they will be able to have that lesson pop up on their screen giving them the ability to view and perhaps write their own notes which is where the reduction of paper comes into play. Teachers are now asking for powerpoints and other means of presenting and turning in assignments. Some teachers are now preferring to have students email assigned homework to them. With “Word” students are able to write their papers and send it out through email. Paper in this manner will certainly be reduced.
I forecast that there will no longer be the traditional student desks in the classrooms. The classrooms will have computer tables that run the length of the classroom allowing for more room, much like a computer lab but in a regular classroom setting. Each student will be assigned a computer and through it, they will be able to view the lesson as the teacher is presenting it.
One of the biggest changes I see taking place in the future in our schools is textbooks. With the introduction of the Ipad and kyndal, schools will slowly set aside the hard copy textbook and instead give each student access to their class textbook through these devices. Students will be able to take quizzes on the lesson and perhaps their exams, much like we do in online college courses.
Many changes have already occurred in our schools but with technology today making a big impact in our present day, technology is where our educational change will occur in the year 2020.