Technology and Education : Current and Future Trends

                                       Author: Philip Molebash

Why predict the future? More than an attempt at being Nostradamus, the value is in providing targets against which others may compare their thoughts and to stimulate efforts to either 
facilitate or inhibit possible futures implied by the predictions. As technology plays a larger role in education, any predictions concerning the future of education must include an analysis of 
technological trends. The purpose of this paper is to do just that: Analyze the trends in technology and how they relate to education, and then to extrapolate these trends in an attempt to predict the 
future of technology and education. Much of what is predicted in this paper might offend ardent supporters of our traditional educational system and a large portion of it will probably miss the 
target substantially. However, it will be clear that as technology is adopted into education, the end result will be change.