The importance of interaction in the classroom in the future education.

Johanna Munoz Pineda.

Caldas University.

The importance of interaction in the classroom in the future education.

The purpose of education has changed dramatically in the last decades. In a global world where technology has become a major tool and communication is fundamental, interaction plays a major role in the classrooms, transforming our schools and the way  we learn and teach. The main purpose of education is to prepare students for the future challenges of the real world. Teachers play an important role influencing and facilitating students’ academic achievement and preparing them for these challenges.

Learning in the classroom has changed, becoming a collaborative process in which teachers bring their experience, knowledge, and expertise along with all elements that students bring with them such as previous learning experiences, cultures, and ideas. Many people agree with the idea that   education is transforming along with the changes and demands of the new global societies, making it way different than education in the past. The use of modern technology as an important tool to facilitate learning shows this new change. In addition, the increasing use of the internet sources, interactive smart boards, and electronic tables along with electronic books and readers provide an instant interface between classroom and cyberspace, allowing teachers to transform classes, these gadgets evidence the impact to technology in today’s learning process.  Technology has made learning more proactive and global shortening distances and giving wide and more global perspectives of different issues.

On the other hand, experts have found that eliminating traditional classrooms in exchange for impersonal online classes would be the biggest mistakes because they say that one of the most important aspects of school life is the social interaction that comes with daily meetings among students. It can be said that future education may have some negative impact on our society since the use of technology is limiting the personal interaction in the classroom. The lack of interaction with teachers and classmates may reduce the opportunity of sharing different points of view in which students can actively engage in the learning process. Moreover, interaction in the classroom is the way  teachers can identify different styles of learning, implementing activities in which students would have opportunities of developing their knowledge through the sharing of experiences.

Finally, interaction plays an important role in today’s education since it provides students elements to succeed academically and socially. Since teachers and students are engaged in an active and interactive process of learning, new classrooms are supposed to provide students with a new learning style through the use of modern technology, working together in a classroom environment where different learning methods and technology are adapted to meet the new challenges of our global world.