I spent most of last week in a "classroom of the future" at the eTech Ohio conference. Seven teachers from The Graham School and The Charles School at Ohio Dominican University were the main attraction. They gave mini lessons that show cased how a classroom of the future is really what's available now.
For a "peek under the tent" you can visit our YouTube space at TheCellt: http://www.youtube.com/my_videos
This classroom of the future featured technologies that are available and are currently impacting classrooms whether we like it or not -- Interactive/collaborative technologies (problem-based learning, presentation software, FaceBook), portable computing (cellphones to laptops), Open Educational Resources (Wikipedia to free digital textbooks)and alternative assessment (electronic portfolios). These are the technologies that the Horizon Report and "Hype Cycle" indicate are at the classroom door waiting to get in at the moment.
Lots of great suggestions about ways to open the doors of school classrooms and take students out to virtual worlds as well as their neighborhoods.
Check out the CELLT.org website for more.
Thom
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