Its hard to say what the classroom will look like five years from now. I think that technology will be used much more heavily. Every classroom will most likely have a classroom website for anyone to visit. The websites probably will have regularly updated podcasts available to students and parents. Students will most likely have their own blogs as well. Especially high school students. There will be many more SmartBoards in classrooms too. There will also be more computers in each classroom. The sixth grade class that I will be student teaching in next year has 4 computers in the back of the room. This number will likely increase.
One worry of mine is that the advancement of technology in classrooms will create a greater divide between rich schools and poor schools. Rich schools will have access to much more technology than poorer schools will. I can see rich suburban kids becoming totally technologically literate while inner-city kids will fall behind. I wonder how this will all work out...
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Wow, here is an issue I had never considered: the divide between income classes widening because of technology. I think that you are correct in thinking that this might happen. Just as schools are now divided, some richer, some poorer, based on their resources, so technology will also become a resource which some can afford and some cannot. Looking far ahead into the future, if some people are very capable technologically, yet some are not, this could create serious social problems.
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