Technology and Education : Current and Future Trends

 

 Author: Philip Molebash

 

Why predict the future? More than an attempt at being Nostradamus, the value is in providing
targets against which others may compare their thoughts and to stimulate efforts to either
facilitate or inhibit possible futures implied by the predictions. As technology plays a larger role in
education, any predictions concerning the future of education must include an analysis of
technological trends. The purpose of this paper is to do just that: Analyze the trends in technology
and how they relate to education, and then to extrapolate these trends in an attempt to predict the
future of technology and education. Much of what is predicted in this paper might offend ardent
supporters of our traditional educational system and a large portion of it will probably miss the
target substantially. However, it will be clear that as technology is adopted into education, the end
result will be change.