In regards to using The Cloud, the Horizon Report highlights a few of the pros to the shifts in teaching, but they also point out important challenges that we as teachers need to be prepared to meet. (see last two pages of the Report).
What does this mean for me?
Work.
But not just lots of extra work... but work that will help the future.
This added work will make it so we can stop talking about making a shift and actually DO IT! I don't know if it's just me, but I often feel like we're learning all these great things that we can do in the classroom and should be doing. Things that will be better for the student, etc. but quite frankly, I just don't see it... I've done all my professional semesters and I've only caught glimpses, mostly from student teachers, of the potential we have to change the classroom. If we take it upon ourselves to make the change, the next wave of teachers can hit the ground running!
This in turn will help the Students as they enter into their future... the future of the world... Our world. The walls and limitations of the classroom can be completely torn down! (figuratively*) and they can access any and all the information they thirst after. Our students will be more prepared for the future as they explore all the possibilities that are available to them, not just what we make available to them.
Moral of the story, we have to suck it up and:
*but really... the possibilities are pretty close to limitless...
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