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Movie Review:

Videos on the Potential Future of Technology in the Classroom...

Technology in Education: A Future Classroom
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZ73ZsBkcus

Microsoft Vision of the Classroom of the Future
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJu6GvA7jN8

Future Learning
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qC_T9ePzANg

These three videos embody the potential future of our classrooms.  What the videos really show, though, is an aim to really cater to students- their needs, levels, and abilities.  The futuristic devices and classroom set ups displayed in these videos shows that our mindset is directed toward not only efficiency and productivity but also individualization and accessibility.  While many of these  advancements will one day be a reality, it is paramount that we, as educators first and technologically-savvy masters second, do not lose sight of the student as the focus of our improvements.  

In the last video, Future Learning, Seth Weinberger, Founder and Executive Director: Innovations for Learning says, "In order for educational technology to be successful in the classroom, we're going to have to marry the ecosystem of the way technology works with the ecosystem of the classroom itself.  The goal of this is to get teachers doing higher order things and let the computers do the more basic things of 2+2=4, and all of the practice that is necessary" (5:23).  Our goal is to create and fun, relaxed, educational environment with applications and tools that actively engage students, encourage them to create knowledge, and to understand the purpose of the material.  Students learn easiest in a "dimension of collaboration" (Richard Lang, Founder of Democrasoft).  Therefore, the future of educational technology is a collective effort toward overall enhancement of the experience of learning in a classroom setting.


I highly recommend viewing these three, among a plethora of other videos, to become an informed teacher or simply a citizen in a continuously advancing technological world.  The videos blend information, intrigue, and possibility, with futuristic ideas and potential for positive change.  They are thought-provoking and engaging tools to begin to consider what our classrooms and learning experience might be in the years soon to come.