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Definition
The future classroom or classroom of the future or classroom of tomorrow is a concept used in several different ways:
It can refer to one of the following or combinations of the following:
- different pedagogy, in particular socio-constructivism
- different physical layout (reflecting chances in pedagogy)
- technology rich classrooms, e.g. computer-integrated classrooms or technology-enhanced classroom
- videoconferencing systems designed for teleteaching and that also may include various other groupware.
- online environments of various sorts, e.g. learning management systems or virtual learning environments, etc.
- anything related to education ….
We prefer to use future classroom for describing a physical setting that integrates a variety of high performance pedagogies with educational technologies in an appropriate physical layout. Indiscriminate praise of classrooms that just use the currently fashionable technology (Film, TV, PC’s, iPads or whatever) and/or pedagogies (e.g. discovery learning) and that fail to change outcomes draws quite heavy criticisms, e.g. Todd Oppenheimer’s The Computer Delusion or the more academic Kirschner et al. 2006.
A similar concept is the school of the future.
