The speed at which mobile devices, mobile
apps, and Internet of Things are
entering the market is rapid, · Students will each have a digital device. It
may be a tablet PC, laptop, Chromebook or Surface -- that won't matter. What's
important is that it is portable, sturdy, fits in a backpack, and is digitally
secure.
All student work will be done on these. Losing one would be worse than losing
a backpack -- much worse
and with more and more of that it is no surprise we are seeing the
school classrooms as an early adopter of this tech. With mobile and tablets
devices at the heart of how thestudents interacts, it naturally falls to
education technology to pioneer mobile
innovation and enable pupils to have a more and morecreating learning
experience. To do this, they must invest in technology that does not hinder
pupil’s natural desire to be mobile, but also keep them focused on the task in
hand.
With the curriculum constantly developing and formats of major exams and
A Levels changing it is important to ensure that IT and other departmental
functions can continue to evolve to meet the needs of pupils and staff in order
to give pupils the best opportunities.
Through working closely with our customers in education, we are in
constant discussion over the changing demands of the classroom, these include:
device proliferation, app usage, room/building environments, IoT onset, pupil
and teacher collaboration and data-driven decision making, to name just a few.
Education is changing. Teachers no longer primarily lecture from
the front of the class. Students don't fervently copy the instructor’s words
down, read text, and memorize material for a test.
· Keyboarding will be taught and reinforced in all
classes. The struggle over whether keyboarding is a real subject will be
settled pedagogy. It will be akin to grammar--every teacher reinforces grammar
-- or school dress. Keyboarding will be accepted as one of those cross-class
academic tools that is important everywhere. Parents will also understand this
and reinforce lessons when students use computers at home.