Role of digital trends in shaping future teaching

every aspect of our society, including education, has been radically changed by technological advancements. Today's students are raised with internet-connected devices at home and in the classroom, which has changed their learning habits. Teachers and students will be given a choice of new tools to work with as future education technology transforms learning.
While technology will play a big role in the future of education, ensuring that the new teaching tools are put to the best possible use will necessarily involve a new generation of educators who recognize the significance of human connection in educational institutions.
Students who choose this path must acquire the knowledge and skills necessary to implement educational technology to maximize their benefits for todays and tomorrow's middle and high school students.

Use of Tablets in classrooms

Tablets have overtaken smartphones as the most popular mobile device among students, and for good reason: they're tiny and portable enough for individual usage, large enough for several students to share, and versatile enough to act as a video player, word processor, or instructional gaming device.
The next generation of teachers would be wise to think about how to include tablets into their programmes, whether it's for giving homework to students, sharing multimedia, or any other purpose.
Tablets are most typically used to update traditional educational methods, such as sharing materials and taking notes, rather than for modern, inventive objectives. Teachers who embrace tablets in the classroom will have a significant impact on their students, teaching them better technical literacy and increasing their learning opportunities in new and interesting ways.

Assistive Technology

New technologies empower students with disabilities, putting them on a more equal footing with their peers than ever before. According to the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), special education services are provided to under 7 million students in the United States, or about 13% of total public school enrollment. For special education children and kids with disabilities, a variety of assistive technology devices are available to give the educational help they require.
The usage of alternative input devices is an important educational trend in the domain of assistive technology devices. These enable students with disabilities to use computers and tablets with modified keyboards that include larger buttons, cursors that may be controlled with their mouth or feet, and other features. Speech-to-text technology has become a solid alternative for students who are unable to use any type of manual input device due to a disability. More modest technological advancements, such as easy-to-read fonts that help kids with dyslexia, also assist those with minor learning difficulties.
These upcoming educational technology developments break through the walls that divide students based on their learning abilities. Teachers who use these and other innovations in their classrooms will be at the heart of educational leadership.

Virtual/Augmented reality & Voice platforms

Education advancements will ride the tide of improved internet capabilities and network bandwidth, making it easier to incorporate innovative technology into schools. Augmented reality and virtual reality (AR/VR) are two main fields of next-wave technology. Virtual reality gadgets offer an immersive digital universe in which students interact in virtual 3D worlds to enhance learning experiences, while augmented reality gadgets enhance real-world materials, such as making a map leap off a page.
Google has already launched its first venture into AR/VR with the release of a $15 cardboard VR viewer. The viewer was published in 2017 as part of Google's Expeditions app and platform. AR/VR learning is especially well suited to STEM students, offering teachers access to virtual experiments, up-close explorations of microscopic organisms, and a variety of other educational uses. But that's not all: AR/VR technology allows students to cruise the world without ever leaving the classroom, traversing the planet and exploring historically significant moments up close and personal.
Meanwhile, voice assistants like Google Echo and Amazon Alexa, which are becoming increasingly popular in American households, have classroom applications. Students can get immediate responses using these goods. They can also be used to play instructional games, hold class polls, and interact with students all around the world, among other things.