What will teaching be like in 10 years

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Tyler Amidon has been in education for 20 years--teaching at Denver Christian for 17 years. He has taught elementary PE, middle school math and he is currently in his 4th year as a school administrator. His wife of 24 years is a school administrator at a local public high school. View all posts. Interestingly enough, I could ask 50 different educators about what education will look like in 10 years and I could get 50 different answers.

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed. Who wrote many years ago Education is Experience? I think the insurance issue is a hurdle worth trying to work around. Not sure what you mean by your second question. While I agree largely with the sentiment behind this article, there are two very important things to consider: 1 having access to information is not the same as having it in working memory so that connections can be made to new ideas and experiences.

Real critical thinking and problem solving requires that I actually know enough about a subject to critically analyze other ideas or fit possible solutions into a broad framework of information and ideas. How do you even decide what information you should go look for unless you already have a sense of the scope of a problem and the relevant context? It is actually really important to know stuff. Knowing stuff does not require memorization and regurgitation type learning I agree.

Experience is a great learning tool but doing it reflectively and with a variety of different lenses to make sense of our experiences. If that is the case, what should our learning standards look like- or should we dispense with standards all-together? So you have a physical school with kids sometimes doing online classes and there will be virtual options as well.

But I think it's really important that the education sector makes a strong case for the added value of having a trained, professional, expert teachers in the classroom because there are a lot of people who want to get rid of teachers …. You will still have an adult in the classroom but often they may not necessarily be a trained, expert, professional teacher,' he says.

Artificial intelligence AI is likely to be much more prominent in school in 10 years' time, but Selwyn says teachers shouldn't think of it as some sort of magic. Selwyn says it's likely we'll have data collection in classrooms that look at learner's behaviour, tracking what they do through videos and the way they interact with their devices. AI might also be able to generate data on a learner's moods and emotions.

And then you can use that data to then, as I say, make decisions and predictions and try and nudge students into doing things,' he says. Selwyn says we'll definitely have personalised learning systems that will recommend content and how to best approach it.

AI will be also be used to give ongoing feedback to help the learner to make better decisions. Teachers are also likely to be supported by automated grading and similar chatbots to the ones that universities are already using in Australia. And again, they can respond to the questions that are asked by going through masses of data from previous questions,' he adds. It's important that teachers are given training in algorithmic literacy so they understand how to work alongside AI and with AI in their classrooms, Selwyn says.

The system is telling you what to do. If you've found how the algorithms work and you've got a vague idea of the logic being employed, then you can work with the system.

Students around the world are walking out of classrooms to protest government inaction on climate change. While some argue that technology in our classrooms creates lazy, disconnected students, McLaughlin believes this is a myth. She says technology has created endless boundaries of where learning can occur, with whom and why. Technological advances have enabled interconnectedness of information and people with the touch of a button.

Alongside our changing notions of what constitutes a classroom, our ideas about the way teaching is delivered must also be reshaped. Teachers will become facilitators of learning and students will have more control of their own learning journey. As a result, teachers will have individualised learning plans for students, which will enable each student to learn at a pace that best suits their abilities and to engage with content that is most beneficial to them.

A combination of evidence-gathering and feedback from parents, students and other professions will enable these plans to be successfully integrated into the education system. To maximise the potential for individual progress, some elements of teacher-led learning will remain, which will augment traditional learning practices when combined with online digital media. Students today are heavily focused on the end result — achieving that high ATAR score, receiving a distinction in class, acing those tests.

Education of the future will prove what you have been told many times before: results do not define you. Grading is a waste of time if its purpose is solely to point out who is at the top and who is at the bottom.

Assessments in the future will be evidence based, using measures that allow learning plans to be drawn up and personalised.