Since the
Apple Classrooms of Tomorrow project (Sandholtz, Ringstaff, & Dwyer, 1990), we've known that teachers with access to education technology go through a developmental process: They start by reproducing old practices with the new tools before becoming more adept at imagining new futures.
Forget about borrowing pencils;
inthe classroom of tomorrow, students will asktheir friends for an extra battery charger orpower - supply cord.
How will be
the classroom of tomorrow?
In the following essays, Lowell Monke and Frederick M. Hess, both former teachers, explore the distance between today's pedagogies and
the classroom of tomorrow and ask how to bridge the gap.
The increasing presence of Modern Band and popular music education at the primary and secondary levels presents forward - looking music teacher education programs with an excellent opportunity to fully prepare their students to teach in
the classrooms of tomorrow.