| It may not seem like education has progressed much | | | | high usage (usually in the last hour before the deadline, |
| in the last ten years, but when you think about all the | | | | unsurprisingly). All in all, it's a good system that is far |
| technology that now seems to be standard in many | | | | more eco-friendly than times of old, and one that is |
| classrooms, you could be surprised at just how sparse | | | | likely to be shaping the way for how education will |
| things seemed ten years ago. | | | | continue to develop in the future. |
| Nowadays, it's perfectly normal for students to interact | | | | Another piece of classroom technology that is |
| with one another and their teachers through e-mail, | | | | cropping up more and more in classrooms around the |
| web CT, instant message and online groups in order to | | | | UK is the interactive whiteboard. This innovative |
| complete tasks and have discussions about | | | | teaching tool allows teachers to plan lessons in |
| schoolwork, where as just a decade ago this kind of | | | | advance with ease and to ensure that pupils engage |
| practice was largely unheard of. What's more, even | | | | even more thoroughly with the material that is being |
| iconic school furniture such as the ancient television | | | | presented. Students can use remote items like pens |
| and video player precariously piled on top of a rickety | | | | and handheld tablets to interact with the whiteboard's |
| stand on wheels have been replaced with the option | | | | technology and really bring lessons to life. Such |
| to watch videos and films streamed online and some | | | | interactive whiteboards have found their way into |
| stories from reading lists are simply linked to via the | | | | university lecture theatres as well as primary school |
| internet rather than handed out on sheet paper. In | | | | classrooms, so their appeal and flexibility is certainly |
| universities, web publications like JSTOR are practically | | | | universal. |
| a requirement and most essays and papers are | | | | It'll be fascinating to see how classroom technology |
| submitted electronically as well as physically, if | | | | continues to advance over the next ten years, too. If |
| physically at all. | | | | it's come this far in the last decade, how far will it go in |
| Ten years ago, it wouldn't have been possible to send | | | | another one? It's difficult to tell, but the chances are |
| essays online - or, it would've been possible, but not | | | | that many of today's teachers are looking ahead with |
| allowed. Even today, some submission programmes | | | | eager eyes to see which technology will present itself |
| can still be a little unreliable, when servers crash due to | | | | to them next. |