The world is changing. It is getting both smaller and bigger at the same time. Our world shrinks as technologies now allow us to communicate around the world. The spread of information now available to us expands our view of the world. As a result of that the ability to communicate globally and the information expansion affects educational change. Most educators might not want to change, but the change is always there. The challenge is to prepare the children of today for the world.

After 20 years, teacher still act as a facilitator or coach. This will provide contextual learning environments that engage students in collaborative activities that will require communications and access to information that only technology can provide. In the very near future we will have a keyboardless computer. Voice software is already proving to be effective in its implementation and it’s like a matter of years before the keyboard will be removed from many, if not most computer environments. Computers are smaller in size and are now wearable.  Also we can look for interactive video technologies that allow parents to play a more role in their children's education like watching a class presentation via online video.

One must keep in mind that there are countless ways technology may develop during the next several decades. Knowing exactly what these developments will be or where they will lead is not only impossible, it is unimportant. It is the recognition of what is possible that educators must consider. It is important that educators have a sense of where the world is headed. Only then will they be able to adequately prepare current and future students to survive in this changing world. We must always keep in mind that a good driver doesn't watch the car's hood while they are motoring down the road. Instead, a good driver carefully watches the road ahead, looking for the obstacles and challenges that lie before them. It is time that education quit watching its hood and start looking at the road ahead.