There will always be a need for a physical classroom. What will the future classroom look like? Is it no classroom? In the next 10 years, all people on the planet will have access to world-class materials that are provably effective. Now, teachers can track student progress with data, identify those gaps, and do more focused interventions. Helping students with personalized instruction would not have been possible 20 years ago but now we have the technology. If you’re only at an 80% level of understanding, you should be able to keep working on it until you have mastered the subject. In mastery-learning classrooms, software can help students learn at their own pace. If you didn’t understand some of the material but the class moves to the next concept, you have a knowledge gap, and at some point those accumulated gaps become so debilitating that students have trouble in algebra, calculus or physics. In a traditional education model, students are moved ahead at a fixed pace, which causes them to accumulate gaps in learning.
There’s another dimension to the future of education, and that’s a move from fixed-paced instruction to personalized, mastery-based instruction and practice.
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