Futuristic Classroom

"Could ICT replaces the role of teachers in the future"

That one simple statement got me thinking how much ICT has been involved in the classroom from the start of over head projector to computer and now smart-boards. I find it easier for teachers to teach their contents as they are able to visualize what they want to teach and children are able to see it and engage into learning much better. The interactivity of learning has increased with the multiple sensory learning, allowing the children to participate actively in their own learning, leaving the teacher behind to guide and to prompt them.

It came to mind how and what would happen when the teacher's role are taken over my machines. You going to see machines talking to students and teaching them, each child having an individual teaching robot or perhaps children learn from home from the comfort of their bed entering into the virtual classroom with avatars. How cool is that?

Put fantasies aside, actually that would not be a good idea and indeed will not happen as human intereaction is seemly important and must not be removed from education!