Horizon Report

The horizon report outlines current trends within the classroom and futures trends in the educational system.  One of these trends involve adopting technology to rethink how schools work.  The traditional approach is having a teacher at the front of the classroom teaching lessons to the students as they take notes with a test at the end of the unit to gauge how much information was absorbed.  The new approach involves a focus on project-based learning and collaborative efforts among students.  This approach feels second nature to students as they already feel comfortable communicating through a computer or device, therefore collaboration feels natural.  Unfortunately, this approach is not accepted throughout all schools as many divisions have collaborative applications such as Google Drive blocked from the students.  Blocking these collaborative applications is crippling a students ability to work with students and learn through a collaborative effort.  It is important for us as educators to take the next step in our teaching and provide an innovative and engaging learning environment for our future students.  As a teacher candidate with experience learning and teaching in this type of environment, administrators are going to look to follow this bucking trend and look for teachers who are willing and able to implement this teaching practice.  The future is bright and exciting for future teachers who are willing to change and improve the current education system

Source:

Horizon Report - 2014 K-12 Edition

Link:

http://cdn.nmc.org/media/2014-nmc-horizon-report-k12-EN.pdf