Future Classroom

Every year I add more technology in our every day routines of learning. I become more and more reliant on technology and I'm always so amazed by what my students are learning. They can pick it up so quickly...it's unbelievable. Ideally, I wish each of my students had a computer in our room. We have a COW that rotates around my grade level, but it ends up being an ordeal to pass out the laptops, roll down the cart, etc. I do it, and it's highly beneficial, but I wish there was an easier way. Currently, I have 4 desktops for my students and I have set up two of the laptops permanently. I want every one of my students to have access to a computer at all times. I

I want my students to collaborate more with students in other classrooms. I think it is important for the future of our children to know how to have empathy and relate to other people. As we are becoming more and more global, we need to know how to communicate...globally. Here is a great podcast about having online community:

http://www.novemberlearning.com/podcasts/Resnick2010Part2Final.mp3

My goal is for my students to feel so competent with technology that they don't need me to tellPublish Post them what to do. I love it when my students can just log on and know their task. Obviously that takes time to teach, but I love that end result! There are so many amazing web 2.0 tools out there and I'm so excited to see what's to come. This is a really cool video showing the emergence of digital text and the future of web 2.0....I really liked it.

I think the classroom of the future will be filled with video, online research, interaction with the web, collaboration, and lots of creativity and engagement. This is a different generation we are teaching and they learn differently...the classroom needs to look different too.

Here's a fun video:

I also see IPads instead of text books!

I'm excited about my future classroom.