The future of K 12 education: Smart learning/ Smart class
The contribution of online education to society can’t be ignored. The huge amount of opportunities provided by online educational tools is making the society better skilled, adaptive and creative. Thus, the future of K 12 education lies most assuredly online. In that respect what about the classroom? Is there a reason to keep the physical classroom in the future?
Many people consider classroom-based education as more tactile and interactive. But there are lots of issues directly related to the physical learning process. Some of the key drawbacks are discussed below:
• Flexibility: As students can choose their time of study so smart learning enables the students to optimize their study time rather than receiving a predetermined time for learning.
• Personalization: A physical classroom can increase personalized attention from teachers whereas in smart class teachers can easily gain insight about who is struggling with the concept.
• Freedom: When it comes about removing physical classroom, then the development of social skills are important factors to consider but for students with social anxiety learning becomes easier as they will have freedom.
• Accelerated learning: With smart class structure it is possible for gifted students to have more control of their studies without making the whole class wait till they catch up.
