What awaits education in 2015?

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To help you get a better sense of the situation, today we will present 3 groups of assumptions about what is expected to be modern and popular in 2015 and what is not quite so.

Trends with growing influence

1. Teachers with an entrepreneurial mindset.
2. Decentralizing academic standards.
3. Rethinking information in the classroom.
4. Adaptive learning algorithms.
5. Digital citizenship.
6. Focusing on digital media.
7. Depth of content.
8. Experimenting with new learning models (flipped classroom, synchronous learning, blended learning – blended learning) etc.
9. Self-directed teacher webinars etc.
10. College as a choice.
11. Collaborative learning.
12. Digital literacy.
13. Focusing on learning spaces.
14. Design thinking.
15. Care, meditation, downtime/inactivity.
16. The teacher as a guide.
17. Gamification of content.
18. Time for talent development, time for creativity, time for collaboration.
19. Workflows.
20. Text processing using cloud services.
21. Modernity + teacher collaboration.
22. A platform-agnostic attitude.
23. The librarian as a digital media specialist.
24. YouTube channels, Google Chromecast, AppleTV.
25. Applications such as Storehouse.
26. 1:1 tablets/devices.
27. Project-based learning.
28. Mobile design of educational technologies.
29. Innovations in applications.
30. Microsoft OneDrive, Google Drive.

Trends with medium influence

1. Google, Microsoft, Apple, etc.
2. Stewardship.
3. Professional learning communities.
4. Differentiation.
5. Writing computer code.
6. Required reading lists.
7. Pure creativity.
8. Self-learning.
9. Large-scale educational conferences held face to face.
10. Colleges.
11. Experiential education.
12. Cultural literacy.
13. The physical design of most schools and universities.
14. Remembering priority content that leads to design thinking.
15. Debates.
16. Pressure on systems.
17. Gamification as an assessment system.
18. Giving private lessons.
19. Lists of the “To do” type.
20. Cloud-based learning.
21. Teaching by two teachers.
22. Switching from one operating system to another.
23. The bibliophile librarian.
24. Online encyclopedias.
25. Applications such as Prezi.
26. Socio-economic inequality.
27. Mobile learning.
28. Mobile assessment.
29. Free applications.
30. iCloud.

Trends with declining attention

1. Educational material publishers.
2. Common core standards.
3. Creating a syllabus script.
4. Curriculum.
5. Draconian filters.
6. Humanities.
7. Content coverage.
8. The phrase/idea “Education of the 21st century”.
9. The belief that employee certification and training programs guarantee quality.
10. College as the standard.
11. Free online courses.
12. Agricultural literacy.
13. The traditional classroom.
14. Seizure of readily available data.
15. Lessons that encourage verbally expressive students.
16. Pressure on teachers.
17. Standardized assessment.
18. Increased instructional hours.
19. Whole-class processes.
20. Flash drives, hard drives, CDs, sending files by email.
21. Alternative schools/classrooms for students with special needs.
22. Apple-oriented thinking.
23. The strict librarian.
24. Cable television, receiving content after subscribing to a given channel.
25. Applications such as PowerPoint.
26. Over-simplifying the thinking around “bring your own device”.
27. “Doing projects”.
28. Making mobile non-mobile content.
29. App order scams.
30. Dropbox cloud data storage.

Source: http://www.teachthought.com/trends/30-trends-education-technology-2015/