What Will EdTech Look Like in 100 Years?

Let’s take a look at the future and see how technology will improve education in the next 100 years. What will be the new innovations in EdTech? What will future classrooms look like? Will the need to study medicine, law, and science disappear when robots start working in these professions? What about art? Sure, no robot can be better than David Bowie, Leonardo Da Vinci, or Shakespeare (not yet), but with the number of innovations we see every day, we can’t be sure it won’t happen. While these innovations could have some detrimental side effects (such as job loss, impacts to the economy, etc.), they also have their advantages. It is up to us to use these innovations with caution and maximize their benefits.
Tracking every student’s move will become a reality.
Student tracking is already a reality in some schools. In the future, it’s entirely plausible that all schools will track students and teachers using Radio Frequency Identification (RFID). There is currently one obstacle: costs. Once there is a cheaper way to replace lost or stolen RFIDs, it will become more common to track when students attend school and their trips around the open classroom. This way, by knowing where and when students are, more time can be spent giving instructions and explanations.
Many parents would argue that it is not fair to track their child’s every move all the time. On the other hand, this can greatly improve safety in schools. In modern schools with more than 1,000 students in a classroom, it could be very hard to locate missing child without tracking.
Interactive surfaces while working in groups will become a reality.
The trend in education is to have collaborative group learning. We are currently at the point where every child has his or her own electronic device. As the group learning model improves, it will be harder for children to follow courses separately on their personal devices. What would happen if the desk they sat at was itself a computer? That way, the group can use a multi-touch interface and collaborate better, with less time comparing what is on each device.
Interactive surfaces are already a reality, but the costs are still big. Just a few decades ago, computers were expensive and considered a luxury item, so it’s safe to predict that these interactive surfaces will become more affordable as time passes and will be used in schools for everyday basics.
Learning will involve the interconnections of all things.
Schools already use social media, blogging, learning management systems, Google apps, Google for Education, Skype, and a number of other web-based tools. As Wi-Fi becomes available in every classroom, it will become a reality for schools to use popular online tools in favor of traditional education. In next 100 years, more will surely be developed.
Students will become teachers.
Teachers will become facilitators and children will teach each other based on their own interests. While this concept seems strange now, it has a significant probability of becoming a reality one day. Even younger children are capable of finding their own path, and by allowing them to follow their individual interests while they are growing up, we will have more satisfied people in the future.
There will be many new tools.
Educational tools are evolving, and it will be interesting to see what happens in the future. We can predict that instead of using pens and pencils to write on paper or keyboards to write on computers and tablets, one day, children will use Google glasses (or its successor) to transfer their thoughts and notes on a computer. Other futuristic thoughts include new tools to protect devices from viruses, Cloud Learning (which would eliminate paper), increased use of e-communities, hologram lessons, and international collaboration.
While these are only predictions, some of the technologies mentioned here are either in their research phase or are being used in a beginning phase. What is certain is that education will change greatly in the next century. There will be numerous innovations, and we should put them to use carefully while trying to eliminate and minimize any side effects that occur along the way.
Internet of things is set to be a reality not forgetting internet of everything.Everything will be interconnected and also more that we cannot envision at this moment will be seen.User demands keep changing and what is expected will be a complete transformation that cuts across all aspects of the economy.
Thanks, Mathew.You pointed out several things that I remember for years to come,
That was an outstanding article.I always like the way you articulate on edtech and the enormous transformation it would bring to the education sector.
Thanks Mathew.
The education landscape has been completely revolutionalised and come to think of how enhanced the technology would be in the future. Thanks Mathew for giving me the full picture of what to expect in the future.
Sometimes I sit back and ask myself this far technology has taken us how would it look like in the future? I guess advancements and improvements of the current technologies. My question has been well answered in this article. I may now rest assured of the technologies to come and the trends to expect in the future.Thank you Mathew.
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This was a very interesting article. However, I think that astudents learning shouldn’t just be based off of technology. Children need to learn common sense and problem solving and won’t be able to do this if everything is so easy for them to use. I think if you created a white technology like a tablet and stencil (similar to a smartboard or a phone but hand-held with the stencil), then children would still be able to draw and writeand do this while expressing creativity, without wasting away our trees like clothing, and they are able to learn to write like current human being know how to do and sometimes prefer. It’s way more simple and quite frankly stupid for a child to just think it and have it happen for them. I don’t think that children should be tracked, and they certainly shouldn’t beina room with a thousand other students. That is just downright stupid due to health and certain social/mental capacities. It’s is not healthy. I also have many other complaints, butthis is basically my oppinion. Nonetheless, thank you for writing this article.