#14 Future of Technology and Education

The most consistent theme established in regards to the future of technology education is the progressive merging of technology breakthroughs into the classroom. Interestingly, this is causing the culture of education to become a much more flexible and adaptive system allowing for constant changes and progressions in technology. Not only will these changes be affecting specific classrooms, but future technologies are theorized to have a significant effect on the school as whole. Curriculum will require changing, lessons will require revamping and significant portions of funding will be required for technology assets in order to stay on track with the progressions in technology. At Issaquah High School, the video editing lab was recently equipped with large flat screen Mac computers programmed with expensive video editing software. These 30 computers are a progressive shift away from the standard Dell computers previously used in Video Production. Issaquah has also implemented a new online Physical Education course where students rotate in 2 week iterations and the majority of communication and tracking is done online. This is a rather significant breakthrough especially in a Physical Education Course.