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6 Trends for the Classrooms of the Future: What Will Change?

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In the 21st century, technology is taking over the classrooms of the future in more than one way. And this isn’t surprising. When we talk about a technology-driven generation of kids, the whole education system has to evolve and adapt in order to be efficient.

The technology-based classrooms of the future are no longer a concept of the future. The changes in the way of teaching kids are already happening. Students and teachers have started using cloud spaces to store work, post grades and assignments. They are using online portals to complete tests online and collaborative tools to work on team projects. What is about to happen next to the classrooms and the teaching methods? Let’s find out.

Flexible classroom arrangements

The classroom of the future will become more flexible in order to correspond to the individual needs of students and the needs of class activities.

Schools are expected to become more welcoming, so students can feel more comfortable in the buildings and classrooms. Some of the expected measures are to make schools greener, introduce moving walls that make rooms adaptable and more. These are just the first steps to support a more effective learning process.

In terms of classroom arrangements, the positions of the desks will be no longer fixed. On the contrary, they will be adaptable to the needs of students and class activities. There will be more opportunities to rearrange classrooms in order to achieve better collaboration and interaction between the students and the teacher. It’s highly likely that students will be given more freedom of where to sit, so that they can feel more comfortable in class.

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Standing desks will also make it into the classrooms of the future to meet the needs of children who have trouble focusing while sitting. Private workstations and study pots will help student focus while working on individual projects, and collaborative workspaces will boost the effectiveness of teamwork. In addition, the windows of the school buildings may be replaced with ones that decrease glare on device screens in order to prevent eye damage.

These are just some of the measures planned to optimize the school buildings, all in favor of achieving a more effective learning process. Moreover, some schools may provide accommodation for those students who need to travel.

The classrooms of the future are technology friendly

As technology becomes more and more involved in education, it will invade the classrooms to such an extent that the whole learning process will become dependant on it.

It is expected that interactive whiteboards will replace the traditional whiteboards for several reasons. The innovative technology, which is also called a smart board, allows teachers to use pictures, videos, graphs and other graphic material that enriches and simplifies the whole teaching process. In result, the students’ engagement will increase.

If you are interested in smart boards, you can find graphics for your ideas in this article:  Free Clipart For Teachers: Top 12 Sources To Find What You Need .

Interactive whiteboards are a perfect solution for group interaction and collaboration. By acting as a shared resource, interactive whiteboards allow students to participate in the board activity from their own seats and their own devices. Of course, the classrooms of the future will be equipped with enough charging ports, so that students will be able to charge their devices. Interactive whiteboards encourage the use of different learning styles and they have even more benefits such as recording the lessons, so students can have access to them later.

Tablets and eBooks on each desk instead of textbooks and notebooks will become a common view in the classrooms of the future. Effortless internet connectivity is a must-have prerequisite for a seamless technology-based education. The classrooms of the future should provide strong Wi-Fi connections, so the teaching process can be efficient. Of course, all of this would not be possible without reliable cybersecurity and control of access .

Simulation technologies enter the classrooms of the future

Virtual reality and augmented reality technologies are inevitably part of the future of web design . Very soon, they will enter the classrooms, as well.

It is expected that simulation technology will help create various learning styles. Augmented and virtual learning will improve the whole learning process by creating experiences that a text-based book simply can’t provide. Simulation technologies will allow students to visit places virtually, experience three-dimensional demonstrations and more.

Virtual reality and augmented reality technologies can trigger all senses by using 3D images, video, sound, and interaction. This way, they will help students accept information much more effectively than traditional methods. Plus, they really help students to engage with the material.

The good news is, VR and AR glasses don’t have to be made of high-cost materials. The simulation technology headsets can be made of low-cost cardboard so that they can be affordable to more schools.

To get interesting insight on how children learn, check out this article – Visuals for Kids: Enhancing Communication and Learning

An online classroom: from concept to reality

While VR and AR technologies haven’t become mass in classrooms yet, the concept of an online classroom has started to become more clear and achievable for more and more schools.

Teachers and educators have started taking full advantage of the internet and all the benefits that come with it, be it online assignments and assessment, storage of students’ work on the cloud, online collaborative work and more online activities that make the learning process easier.

Remote access software, screen sharing technologies, as well as online tools, apps, and platforms developed specifically for educational purposes, make the concept of a virtual classroom possible. In a virtual classroom, students can participate in group activities no matter their locations. Even more, such a digital environment makes communication between students, teachers, and parents easier.

Online classrooms are a breath of fresh air for both students and teachers. On the one hand, online classrooms are perceived as more exciting and fun by the students. In result, their engagement is boosted. On the other hand, the online teaching environment provides teachers with creative teaching approaches and assessment tools that save time and effort.

The online assessment software will become more and more advanced . It is expected that it will go beyond the grammar and plagiarism check. The innovative assessment software, which is about to enter the classrooms of the future, will be able to perform a full check on students’ writing work in terms of the vocabulary used and relevance to the topic and even create a list of revisions. Moreover, when it comes to online testing programs, innovative software will be able to identify the weak areas for each individual student. This way, the teachers will be able to create a more effective individual approach for each student and conduct individualized tasks and assessments.

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Games and apps actively involved in education

The concept of introducing and using video games for educational purposes is called gamification. It is believed that using video games to teach children will help them engage with the material better. There are already several developers creating games for the classrooms in the field of mathematics, science, English language arts and more. The idea is to make students more comfortable and inclined to learn geometry, algebra and other subjects. The games which are already available for use, provide practical experiences and a fun way to gain new knowledge.

In addition to video games, there are more and more education-related apps that will help teachers be flexible and innovative in their teaching methods. The idea behind using apps for education is quite clear. As technology enters the classrooms of the future, the need for using apps for teaching purposes will also increase. Apps for education are already actively developed and they will be used in all fields of science. Education-related apps are not only meant for online classrooms and students’ mobile devices but for augmented and virtual learning technologies, as well.

Revolution of learning: styles, opportunities, technology

Speaking of individualized teaching approaches, we can say that a revolution of learning is coming. As the world evolves, the teaching methods need to evolve, as well. The new generations need new methods of teaching. This means that the one-size-fits-all method will soon become a thing of the past.

The education of the new generation will be marked by multiple learning styles, flexible learning opportunities, and adaptive learning technology . The classrooms of the future will need teachers of the future who will be ready to adapt to the new flexible learning methods.

As teachers acquire new innovative methods of teaching, students will gain new flexible options to learn. Not only new alternative methods of teaching will be introduced in the classroom but also individualized teaching styles according to each student.

Now, more than ever, students have the opportunity to gain knowledge and develop their skills, for example by enrolling to free online courses in a particular field of interest. In the future, it’s expected that the education system will move its focus to the specific strengths, interests, and goals of each individual student . Schools will encourage their students to follow individual educational paths by building relations with other educational institutions, providing flexible schedules and specific learning environment for their students.

To wrap up,

The classrooms of the future will open doors for more flexible teaching and effective education. All trends in education speak of a better adaptation to the needs of students, as well as better learning and more opportunities for the young generation.

In fact, the classrooms of the future can start happening right here, right now. Ask your students for ideas on how to improve the learning process. You might be surprised by their creativity and ingeniosity.

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What could the school of 2050 look like?

From learning in the metaverse to streamlining administrative tasks, here’s our vision of education in 2050.

Holly Spanner

First, we had blackboards and chalk. Then whiteboards and dry-wipe pens. Overhead projectors and acetate. Now we have interactive whiteboards. From hefty cathode-ray televisions that were wheeled between classrooms, to flatscreen do-it-all screens, the classroom environment has kept pace with new technologies. So too will the classroom of the future. We’ve come a long way since the 90s. And pretty soon, we’ll be in the 50s.

So, what could the school of the future look like?

Undoubtedly, the biggest development we’ve seen in recent years has been advances in technology, so we can be fairly certain that it will continue to play a significant role in the future. Whereas the traditional model of education has remained largely unchanged for the past 100 or so years – pupils are divided by age and the curriculum broken down into subjects – it has been adapted to incorporate new technologies, as well as responding to economic, social, and political changes. Not to mention pandemic-related upheaval.

It's unlikely this tried-and-tested model will change drastically over the next 25 or so years, but rather it will adapt to our evolving world.

In 2050, net-zero deadlines will be upon us, and green technology will be comfortably embedded into the classrooms. Recycling will be second nature and there will be no single-use plastics anywhere in schools or universities. Some schools may have gone one step further, with student-grown vertical farms as both a teaching aid and a sustainable resource for the local community.

Technology-driven leaps forward in education will have been gradual and practical. Rather than a complete technological takeover of the classroom rendering schools (almost) unrecognisable, improvement in current technologies and a sustained effort in emerging trends will be the order of the day, with more accessibility and more information available at our fingertips.

And the way we access this information will change. From online learning platforms to more personalised learning experiences alongside the incorporation of virtual and augmented reality, we may see a shift towards a more interactive method of learning. To better prepare students for the workplace, there may be greater emphasis on collaboration and problem-solving, rather than traditional lecture-based, note-taking teaching methods.

Here are a few ways that the school of 2050 may look different.

The classroom environment

On entering the classroom, biometric scanning will allow students to check in, streamlining the hustle-and-bustle of registration. Teachers will be able to collate attendance data automatically, populate perfect attendance records and more easily track patterns of tardiness.

“Sir! I can’t see, the Sun ’s blinding me, Sir!”

For the school of the future, there will be no need to wrestle with heavy curtains or dust-covered blinds; we’ll have smart glass. Windows that can automatically adjust their tint to compensate for external brightness, protecting both our eyes and screens.

As summer temperatures continue to rise – the general trend for 2050 being warmer, drier summers as well as warmer, wetter winters – air-conditioned classrooms will become the norm. But they will be cleaner, more efficient, and sustainable, with built-in air purifiers to remove toxins and dust from the air.

By 2050, 3D printers will have become a standard appliance, both in the home and at school. As a learning aid, they will have become essential, allowing teachers more flexibility to explain difficult concepts.

Students will be able to physically manipulate objects for better information processing, visual perception, and cognitive learning. The structure of an eye? Easy. Exploring archaeological artefacts without risk of damage? No problem. Understanding the now-antique internal combustion engine? That too.

Augmented reality and AI

Adaptive learning systems driven by artificial Intelligence (AI) will have become integrated into the school environment by 2050. Personalised learning experiences will take into account learning styles and create adaptive assessments that adjust in real-time based on performance.

AI may also be used to analyse pupils' work, even so far as predicting future performance, helping teachers understand which students need more guidance on a particular concept before they fall behind.

Students will be able to get immediate feedback, with suggested areas for improvement and more personalised tutoring, tailoring to a student’s strengths and weaknesses. This isn’t a new concept, Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS) have been proposed for decades, but AI will make it considerably easier.

The move towards more immersive and interactive learning experiences will also be facilitated by the application of augmented reality and advances in AI. Interactive whiteboards will be kitted out with augmented reality – where virtual objects are superimposed onto the real world – which will be particularly useful for STEM subjects, allowing students to digitally dissect the human brain, analyse chemical compounds in the clouds of Jupiter, or make size comparisons of dinosaurs .

But with AI having become more widely accessible – like the recently launched ChatGPT which can generate sophisticated paragraphs of writing from prompts – so too will new plagiarism detection software. Sorry, students.

The internet, accessibility and remote learning

The pandemic has brought remote learning into the limelight. With a global population predicted to reach 9.8 billion by 2050 , and around 90 per cent expected to have internet by then, it’s possible that classrooms will be shared virtually with external pupils, providing learning to home students and allowing for larger class sizes.

And with more pupils, teachers will have come to rely on AI automation of certain aspects (administrative tasks like registrations and tracking grades), to ensure the best possible service, allowing them to focus on teaching.

So it’s very unlikely that the internet itself will disappear by 2050. But it will change. We’re already seeing hard drive storage replaced by virtual clouds; in-progress documents accessible from multiple devices and from any location, and it’s likely this trend towards greater connectivity will continue. 5G will be a thing of the past, but high-speed networks are here to stay, and we can expect to see more data-intensive applications and services as time goes on.

The use of Internet of Things technology will be widespread, with more devices and appliances connected to the internet, enabling greater automation and control over the school environment. Outside the classroom, for example, you might encounter robot cleaners tidying the halls while lessons are in session.

With a few exceptions, homework assignments will mostly be online. From downloading the assignment at the end of the lesson, to submitting it remotely (as many do now), students will be able to view their coursework, see the percentage completed, and track overall assessments.

Instant notifications will alert pupils to deadline extensions, feedback, and grades. Parents and teachers will be able to track progress, addressing issues as and when they arise.

Learning in the metaverse

And of course, with the internet comes social media. And by 2050, the Metaverse – a shared immersive virtual space, where we can be free of our bodies, inhabiting our own digital avatars ­– will be well established.

Wouldn’t it be great to try clothes in the metaverse and have the physical product shipped to us in the real world? If the Metaverse comes to fruition, it will undoubtedly be a game-changer for online shopping, but what about education?

Virtual and augmented reality technology will likely be advanced enough to create a sufficiently immersive and interactive learning environment, perhaps even linked in with the real world; a teacher’s physical words and movements translating seamlessly to their avatar.

But as more personal information is shared online, and we spend more time in the Metaverse, there will be a greater emphasis on protecting a user’s security and privacy. We may even see cyber security modules being incorporated into some subjects.

Of course, schools aren’t solely for educational development; they’re for social and emotional development, too. In that respect, it’s unlikely the metaverse will completely replace the real-world setting. Instead, it will supplement it to allow access to global educational resources and facilitate interactions with exchange students from other schools.

Just like Captain Jean Luc Picard likes to settle down with an old leather-bound copy of Herman Melville’s Moby Dick in the 24th Century, physical libraries will still exist in the mid-21st Century.

AR books will be common, but just as Kindle and e-books have exploded in popularity over the last decade or so, access to reading material will become easier. Gone will be the days of lugging heavy textbooks around, hastily cramming them into lockers after lessons.

Students of the future can look forward to having recommended reading materials right at their fingertips, via e-readers and tablet devices which can be digitally annotated, or manipulated via VR.

We can already do this with today’s e-ink devices, and since tablets have been introduced as an integral learning device in the last decade, studies have shown that they can motivate both pupils and teachers , emphasising interactivity and keeping them engaged with the content for longer .

By extension, digital literacy will be improved, and kids of the future will be even more tech-savvy than your toddler who already knows how to buy Fortnite skins.

Subsequently, reliance on paper products will be reduced, although not eliminated completely. Artists have been using paper for thousands of years, so it’s unlikely we’ll ever see its complete disappearance, especially in art and design subjects. The paper we do use, however, will be eco-friendly; either recycled, or made from fast-growing plants like bamboo.

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Classroom education is evolving

Education is evolving at a faster pace than any other period in recent history. There’s a growing awareness among educators and families that today’s curriculum needs to evolve to meet tomorrow’s reality. Beyond tools and technology, students need to develop new skills to solve tough problems, collaborate effectively, and express ideas in new ways.

To better understand these changes, Google for Education partnered with a global team of researchers and analysts to examine evidence-based shifts in classroom education.

Emerging trends in classroom education

Digital Responsibility

Parents and guardians want schools to help students develop healthy relationships with technology and be safe, confident explorers of the digital world.

Life Skills & Workforce Preparation

To prepare for future careers, students need a holistic education that includes practical vocational skills, communication strategies, and leadership development.

Computational Thinking

Curriculum focused on problem-solving, coding, and STEM subjects helps prepare students to address future challenges.

Student-led Learning

Education leaders want students to have more agency over their education, from what they learn to how the classroom operates.

Collaborative Classrooms

As schools focus on openness, flexibility, and collaboration, they’re redesigning classrooms to match.

Connecting Guardians & Schools

Parents and guardians want to be more involved in their children’s education, and technology is being used as a tool to connect them with educators.

Innovating Pedagogy

Motivated teachers have more engaged classes, and streamlining administrative tasks can help them focus more time on teaching.

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Schools are incorporating emerging technologies into the classroom to enable more innovative and engaging teaching methods and learning experiences.

“A successful computer science or STEM classroom is a place where all students are learning how to solve problems and express solutions using real-world tools and strategies.” Chris Stephenson—Head of Computer Science Education Strategy, Google

“You need to start with the personal goals and personal learning paths of the student, and that means starting with something that the student wants to learn, make, or do.” Rob Houben—Head of School, Agora

“Professional development needs to be continuous. Teachers and principals should have an individual professional learning plan, which would include self-reflection and peer reflection.” Anneli Rautiainen—Head of Innovation Unit, Finnish National Board

“The future that I'd like to invent is one where all members of society feel that they are empowered to participate in our increasingly digital world.” Dr. Tim Bell—Professor, University of Canterbury

“Because recent graduates typically lack significant work experience, employers are looking for other indicators that will ideally predict success.” Amanda Timberg—Head of Talent Outreach & Programs, EMEA, Google

“Perhaps the biggest area of change will come through the impact of AR powered technologies, enabling a hands-on exploration of the physical and mathematical properties of the world.” Markus Hohenwarter & Stephen Jull—Founder/CEO & COO, GeoGebra

“Live and collaborative VR learning experiences combined with instant translations to hundreds of languages will completely shift the concept of an educational ‘classroom’ to that of a ‘virtual global class.’” Michael Bodekaer Jensen—Founder, Labster

“In education, we’ll see VR experiences being used to provide experiences that are hard or even impossible to bring to students today.” Dan Lindquist—Expeditions Product Manager, Google

A conversation with chris stephenson.

Head of Computer Science Education Strategy, Google

Computer science is currently undergoing tremendous change and I believe this trend will continue and likely accelerate. The last ten years have been typified by huge improvements to CS learning environments as exemplified in the growth of block-based programming. Perhaps more importantly, the focus on truly engaging all students has put a new emphasis on not just what we teach, but how we teach. I believe that this shift to more research-driven engaging teaching practices/methodologies will continue to improve our ability to engage and inspire all students. So ten years from now I would like to think that we will be providing all students with the computing skills they need to thrive in the global economy.

Like any classroom, a successful computer science or STEM classroom is a place where all students are deeply engaged in genuine learning and where every student, regardless of her or his ultimate career pathway, is learning how to solve problems and express solutions using real-world tools and strategies. For computer science and STEM in particular, we know things are going decidedly less well when the children in the seats do not reflect the diversity of the larger population. In these cases, our greatest challenge is about who is not in the room, which students are not having these opportunities and cannot see themselves succeeding in these disciplines in the future.

I believe that computer science is no different than any other academic discipline when it comes to what is fundamental. First and foremost, well-trained teachers who demonstrate an excitement for the discipline and teach in a way that is relevant and engaging to all students. Students who are involved, inspired, and learning. And finally, teacher and students who have access to the tools that support teaching and learning in the discipline.

A conversation with Rob Houben

Head of School, Agora

Schools finally beginning to realize that you can’t force passion and motivation upon students. We know that it is not your IQ, but your passion and motivation, that are the keys to success. So, if we can start with the student's interests, we can build skills and knowledge from there. Then, learning comes in overdrive and students are set up well to become lifelong learners.

At Agora, we had a student who explained to the atom bomb to us. We have other students who repair car engines. We have other students who made our digital school environment and started their company at the age of 16. Another of our students learned Korean on her own and gave Korean guests a tour at our school. I see students start projects on their own and end up with a group of 15 or even 30 other students working toward a successful project. I see projects that start with 13-year-old students and, along the way, get adult experts hooked up with the project on a voluntary basis for one day a week.

It’s all about the mindset of the staff and teachers. You have to forget what you know about teaching, and how schools are organized, and start with what you really know about learning! You need to start with the personal goals and personal learning paths of the student, and that means starting with something that the student wants to learn, make, or do, and giving the student the chance to fail and reflect on that along the way. A ‘teacher’ should use all his or her knowledge to ask the right questions and help the student reflect, not simply explain to them. This enables students to manage their own learning process. You don’t need preset courses, classes, class timetables or age groups for that.

A conversation with Anneli Rautiainen

Head of Innovation Unit, Finnish National Board

Professional development needs to be continuous and part of everyone’s work in the future. Teachers and principals should have an individual professional learning plan, which would include self-reflection and peer reflection. Capabilities will become even more important than knowledge in the fast moving world in the future. Online learning will be evolving. Learning will take place in learning communities, which can be global or local.

Effective classroom innovation has been co-created by or with students.

A collaborative school culture must be in place. Teachers and students form a learning community, where learning is continuous and knowledge is being shared. Principal’s task is to build possibilities for the learning communities to meet and work together.

A conversation with Dr. Tim Bell

Professor, University of Canterbury

The biggest thing I've noticed is that we don't teach it the way we always have, since we want to make it accessible to people other than just those we have always attracted. At the same time, computing has become a lot more human-centred. In the 70's and 80's we had multiple people using one computer, and we had to take turns to use this limited resource. Now multiple computers take turns for us to use them, and we have lots of discretion about which ones we buy, so a great user experience is important. This means that we're seeing human-centred software developers being valued more and more, and that diversity is becoming a priority. In education this has resulted in a push to give a wider range of students a chance to develop a vision for how they might have a part in this field. Of course, we have a long way to go yet on this front!

I can't predict the future, but the future that I'd like to invent is one where all members of society feel that they are empowered to participate in our increasingly digital world. As well as creating new things, we are likely to have to make sensible choices about how we use and regulate new technologies, whether it's social media, AI or quantum computing. Making good decisions about these requires an informed society, and CS education is needed to achieve this.

When it's going well, I think we will see teachers who feel confident to teach it, and can see the point of it. When it's not going well, we see inequitable access to good education, both in terms of resources but also in terms of access to confident and competent teachers.

Having good support from school management and officials in the education system is needed from the top down; and from the bottom up, teachers need to be given the opportunity to learn how to teach the subject (e.g. not just learn programming, but learn how to teach programming.) This is a big change, and resourcing for this (time and money) is hard to find in most education systems.

A conversation with Amanda Timberg

Head of Talent Outreach & Programs, EMEA, Google

Getting a good job has become more difficult over the years and as subsequent cohorts of students leaving school or university failed to find jobs that made use of their degrees, schools and governments took note. In the UK, for instance, OFSTED grades schools on destination data, ie ensuring those who left entered Employment, further Education or Training. This has held schools more accountable to making sure students have a clear pathway to one of those next steps. So the accountability, alongside the duty of care that schools feel to ensure students progress, has led to this shift.

Different jobs will require different minimum qualifications that make someone suitable for that role, e.g. a job in Legal and a job in Marketing require different experience. However, in terms of the professional skills and attributes we look for, here are a few I’d highlight: intellectually curious, collaborative, ability to navigate ambiguity, resilient and inclusive.

Because recent graduates typically lack significant work experience, employers are looking for other indicators that will ideally predict success in role. Previous achievements academically or in extracurriculars often provide this, such as grades, leadership roles or experience in teams. In the interview recruiters are looking to see that the graduate can communicate effectively, demonstrates commitment and also a passion for the work.

Navigating life’s opportunities and challenges with grace and resilience.

A conversation with Markus Hohenwarter & Stephen Jull

Founder/CEO & COO, GeoGebra

Aside from the now ubiquitous recognition of the acronym worldwide, itself indicative of the increasing value and importance placed on science, technology engineering and mathematics curriculum, I would have to say the addition of ‘arts’, resulting in STEAM. STEAM has opened the door even wider to a greater number of students who may not otherwise have considered getting excited about what was, historically, considered a curriculum area limited only to those with a love of mathematics. From our perspective at GeoGebra, math is everywhere - across all the creative subjects, and core to innovation and exploration. And, well, who doesn’t like to explore?!

Students’ biggest complaint in schools is arguably still the relevance of the curriculum to their everyday lives - now and in the future. STEM subjects are already improving in status among students, if only because students everywhere use, create and influence technologies. Schools have the opportunity to put that interest and competency in technology to work in the learning process. Here at GeoGebra we are all about exploration in learning across the STEM subjects, and for us, perhaps the biggest area of change will come through the impact of AR powered technologies - including GeoGebra’s 3D AR app - enabling a hands-on exploration of the physical and mathematical properties of the world all around us. When a student can walk into and through a morphing Tesseract using AR technology after having completed A Wrinkle in Time in English class, they will leave that experience understanding 4D theory in a way that wasn’t possible until now.

This is the impossible question, as there are so many and such varied examples that it’s quite impossible to pin one down. It would be a cop-out to just point to something from the global GeoGebra community of teachers and students, and so I am going to resort to the great stand-by, but never dull, space travel - or in this case nearish space - with the ‘Lego Man in Space’ project by students from Toronto. Anytime you can get nearly 3M+ views of a student STEM project you know you’re doing something right :) Were there a repeat mission, I suppose an obvious extension of the mission would be to send a phone along to collect sensor data to capture and display the mission in GeoGebra!

If there is one common thread running through all great classrooms and schools, it’s great teachers who share a joy and love of learning with their students. High quality, engaging STEM education doesn’t necessarily require technology. But...if you’ve got great teachers; a supportive and engaging learning environment, and you mix in the best technology, that’s when things start to get really exciting!

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Founder, Labster

Virtual reality hardware will keep improving drastically over the next 10 years. Increases in visual resolution and performance will make the virtual and real world indistinguishable and lag completely disappear, all while all-in-one headsets become cheaper than $100 and much less obtrusive. We will also see additions such as haptic gloves become mainstream, making the experience even more immersive. Live and collaborative VR learning experiences combined with instant translations to hundreds of languages will completely shift the concept of an educational “classroom” to that of a “virtual global class.” If used well, this will give educators the opportunity to provide their students experiences that haven’t been possible before. Just imagine being able to learn science on the International Space Station with students all over the world, or shrinking to the size of a DNA strand to collaboratively manipulate molecules hands-on, and traveling back in time to explore ancient Rome and role-play out important historic events – all from the safety of the physical classroom.

While the concept of VR is not particularly new, technological advances in recent years are now making it possible to produce VR equipment that is both cheap and high enough quality to provide a comfortable immersive user experience. While there is still plenty of room to improve, VR is close to a mainstream breakthrough because of 1) the continuous technological improvements combined with 2) the increasing content quality developed specifically for VR and 3) research providing evidence of the effectiveness of VR in education.Last year, Arizona State University launched the world’s first fully online biology degree using VR. This collaboration between ASU, Google and Labster has given remote students access to perform lab experiments in VR – something that simply wasn’t possible in the past. Students can access the lab on their own time and spend as much time there as they need. The degree has been a huge success, attracting thousands of students so far.

Last year, Arizona State University launched the world’s first fully online biology degree using VR. This collaboration between ASU, Google and Labster has given remote students access to perform lab experiments in VR – something that simply wasn’t possible in the past. Students can access the lab on their own time and spend as much time there as they need. The degree has been a huge success, attracting thousands of students so far.

VR provides every student equal access to education, virtually.

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Expeditions Product Manager, Google

Virtual reality has undergone a lot of changes over the last few years as the technology has matured and companies have gotten a better handle on what applications are most appropriate for VR. When VR first came to the forefront of consumer awareness, most of the expected uses were around gaming and entertainment. Now, however, we’re seeing a shift to more pragmatic use cases in education and enterprise applications like architecture. I believe we’ll see hardware prices for VR devices drop sharply within the next several years, which will create more opportunities for schools to integrate them into their technology portfolio. Even as prices drop, the devices will get more powerful, with higher resolution screens and faster processors. This will happen alongside the rollout of high-speed 5G networks, all of which will contribute to richer, more immersive VR environments that really increase the sensation that users are actually somewhere else. In education, we’ll see VR experiences being used to provide experiences that are hard or even impossible to bring to students today. Google Expeditions, for example, enables students to take field trips to faraway places without the logistical complexity, while companies like Labster let students run full labs without any lab equipment or supplies. More and more of these applications will be created, letting students have a wide range of experiences with a lower investment in highly specific classroom equipment.

VR and AR both create new avenues for engaging students in ways that simply weren’t possible before. Students can explore a high fidelity simulated environment or object, indulging their curiosity and inspiring them to ask unique questions based on what they’re observing. The increased engagement helps students better solidify and retain knowledge about a topic. Teachers also love seeing the excitement that students experience when they bring VR and AR into the classroom, so they are finding lots of new ways to incorporate the tech into their lessons. As more and more teachers figure out the best ways to integrate VR and AR with their lessons, it gets easier and easier for other teachers to follow suit.

We love seeing VR integrated as a way to bring extra depth and engagement to an already thought-out lesson plan, rather than trying to use VR as a lesson substitute. Teachers that use VR successfully will build the class up to the VR experience through appropriate context building, then put the students in VR to explore and add depth to the earlier context. We also recommend that teachers keep students engaged during the VR experience itself. Sometimes it can be hard to have students listen to the lesson while they’re excitedly exploring their VR environment, so we encourage an in/out cadence; teachers let students explore for a minute or two, then have the students take their headsets off to ask questions and engage the students face to face. This helps students solidify the learnings from the experience while maintaining their attention throughout.

We visited a classroom that was teaching students about archaeology and the study of ancient civilizations. The teacher started by telling students about the ancient Mesoamerican civilizations and their histories. After the students gained an appreciation for this history, the teacher then put the students into a virtual reality tour of Chichen Itza to let them see and explore the ruins themselves. After the VR tour, the teacher switched to talk about the practice of archaeology and how archaeologists can infer insights by studying the artifacts that a civilization leaves behind. The teacher pointed out that properties of artifacts can tell us certain things, like how finding an arrowhead suggests the civilization used bows to hunt. The teacher then used augmented reality to show a series of Mesoamerican artifacts in the classroom and asked students what they could learn about the civilization from each one. The students were able to look at the objects from all angles as if they were transported into their classroom, examining them firsthand. The teacher did a fantastic job using both AR and VR to drive home the lessons they were trying to convey.

The closest we’ll get to teleportation or a time machine.

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