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Trends in education are continuing to bring new and exciting opportunities to the classroom. The International Association for K-12 Online Learning predicts big shifts in the use of technology in the classroom for both students and teachers. According to Education Week, public schools in the United States provide at least one computer for every five students, spend more than $ 3 billion on digital content per year, and are pushing to make high-speed Internet affordable. While making a massive overhaul in the classroom, schools are also trying to support the educating of teachers and staff to utilize this technology in even the most rural and remote schools across the country.
Although technology isn’ t foreign to classrooms, funding has long been a barrier for many schools across the U. S., along with hesitation by teachers to adopt new methods for teaching. Yet, with all new technologies come new challenges. In a time where cloud computing and data analytics drive the way business is done for everything from hospitals to grocery stores, big data is continuously being monitored, making it crucial to keep private information secure. Schools and colleges are trying to keep pace by trading in textbooks for tablets and turning toward technology to redefine education. These updates to traditional learning can be broken into four segments: when, why, who and how.
THE WHEN
While most of us used textbooks, chalkboards, and hard wooden chairs in perfectly parallel lines facing the front, 2016 has brought big changes to the classroom for both students and teachers. Education’ s slow reaction to change and inability to keep pace with constantly changing technologies and innovations have made upgrading learning a challenging task, but the time is now for change to happen in education. In 2015-2016, Education Week reported that, for the first time, more state standardized tests were administered via technology than by using paper and pencil. Teachers now have tools for personal development and are learning how to bring technology into their classrooms in a meaningful way. In the 2016-17 school year, the trend of technology in the classroom will grow, as will the continued success of tech-based learning.
THE WHY
Technology is everywhere. Kids and adults alike utilize at least some form of technology in their everyday lives. From socializing to shopping, to reading and working, technology is inevitable in today’ s society. Parents, teachers, community leaders, and governmental representatives are speaking up for their kids and pushing to redefine success and rethink measuring success in the classroom. Skills such as knowledge, social abilities, emotional intelligence and dispositions are all crucial for a student’ s success in the workforce, yet many of
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