The future figured prominently in my reading this week. Janet Clarey questions the future of physical classrooms based on Elliot Masie's question of Classrooms of the future. She asks: do we need physical classrooms for learning. While the comments to her (and Elliot's) post range significantly, the concept of classrooms as we know them is clearly changing.
As trends in learning and technologies become more divergent, and thinking becomes more important, the walls of the classroom move out. Classrooms and the web. Blogs and LMS. Collaborative learning and blogging.
A few additional resources: Learning technologies and schools of the future (.pdf)...and predictions for 2008 (coming in a bit late - it's cheating if your predictions aren't made at the end of the year or within the first few days of the new year.
1 comment:
I don't think I was saying that the classroom is dead (or dying)... or taking a one-approach view (although how you interpret it is really what I am saying).
I did say maybe the classroom of the future is not a room at all. That's not so much "and thinking" (which is a great way to view this topic) as it is "what if" thinking. "What if..." opens up everything and everything else.
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