When I think about the future of learning initially what comes to mind is a classroom highly equipped with technology. The technology I picture is a laptop cart, SMARTboards, student response systems (“clickers”) and graphing TI-nspire calculators. I also see students collaborating and using reflective practices through blogging and wikis. The teacher takes a secondary role and acts as a facilitator to the learning process. Moodle is a great tool that can bring blogging and wikis together and act as the class hub. I truly think that the future of learning is not primarily technology driven but creative collaboration through the technological tools.
I think the approach to teaching and learning will be different. I think that learning will evolve from working with peers. I see the students working physically together in the classroom, collaborating on cross curricular projects (who are not necessarily in the same class hour either) using wikis, and reflecting about what they learned not only in class but after assessments in their own personal blog[ideally their blog would transform into a portfolio of their overall learning experience].
There is some amazing technology out there that has the potential to truly change a math classroom that can truly revolutinize the teaching of mathematics for all level learners. Every student has a Ti-nspire, which connects wirelessly to a hub, and the teacher has access to every calculator screen in the hub through his/her computer. The teacher can create a problem which gets sent to every calculator, then the students can send back their response. The learning is hands on and discovery based and perhaps even fun!
