The Way forward for Schooling and Pupil Success
The dialog about AI and demographic shifts in schooling highlights the challenges academics face in personalizing studying. Because the Way forward for Schooling Expertise Convention (FETC) approaches, discussions give attention to how AI can help in creating deeper human connections, emphasizing the necessity for faculties to adapt to altering demographics and data accessibility.
We’re going through a time of uncertainty round AI, change, and scholar futures. The expectations on academics can really feel unimaginable as we attempt to personalize studying for each scholar. What a aid it’s to study that AI would possibly really help us reasonably than overwhelm us. All of us have to be having conversations about these modifications, and lots of of these conversations will occur this week at FETC. The Way forward for Schooling Expertise Convention (FETC) is right here in Orlando beginning this weekend. However this episode isn’t nearly FETC; this dialog helps us, as academics, make sense of change—not simply observe it.
Immediately’s kindergartners will graduate in 2035. The demographic shifts we’re seeing now, together with fewer kids and a altering workforce, imply faculties can’t afford to plan the long run the identical approach we at all times have.
So it’s becoming that this week we’ve Jennifer Womble, the convention chair, speaking about demographic shifts, utilizing AI as an assistant within the classroom, and the way studying is a really human talent we have to nurture. Within the age of AI and fast change, it’s onerous for a lot of faculties to find out the place we go subsequent. This dialog is about the way forward for schooling and can assist all of us, whether or not we’re at FETC or not.
When you’re at FETC 2026, let’s join! Here is a listing of my periods.
Key Takeaways for Lecturers
- Studying is a human, relational talent that relies on connection, curiosity, and shared expertise.
- Immediately’s kindergarten college students will graduate in 2035, and shifting demographics will have an effect on faculties, the workforce, and long-term planning.
- Lecturers are being requested to personalize studying at a stage that’s typically past human capability with out assist.
- AI can perform as an assistant to assist academics personalize studying and free time for deeper human abilities.
- Faculties have to rethink what counts as studying and evaluation in a world the place info is immediately accessible.
- Conferences {and professional} communities matter as a result of innovation grows by means of shared tales and face-to-face connection.
Visible Abstract
This infographic highlights how demographic shifts, AI, and human-centered studying intersect to form the way forward for schooling.
Take heed to the Present
AI as an Assistant: Rethinking Studying and the Way forward for College
Jennifer Womble, Creator Bio as Submitted
Jennifer Eakin Womble is a nationally acknowledged chief in schooling and know-how, devoted to advancing skilled growth and innovation within the edtech area. Since 2010, she has served because the Convention Chair for the Way forward for Schooling Expertise Convention (FETC)—the most important impartial edtech convention in North America—curating high-impact occasions {and professional} studying experiences. She additionally leads the FETC Webinar Collection and contributes to District Administration journal.
A nationally acknowledged speaker, Jennifer has been honored as an EdTech and eLearning High Influencer, an EdTech Digest Management Award recipient, and serves as a choose for the District Administration High EdTech Merchandise and Reimagine Schooling Awards. Beforehand, Jennifer spent 17 years as a Nationwide Board-Licensed Instructor, advocating for modern educational practices on the district and state stage. She has served on the Board of Administrators for the American Most cancers Society, Communities in Faculties, Junior League of Tallahassee, Tallahassee Quarterback Membership, iTeach, and the Human Intelligence Motion.
A Management Florida Schooling Class 9 member, she has been acknowledged among the many Tallahassee Democrat’s 25 Ladies You Ought to Know, Tallahassee State Faculty’s Excellent Group Lady Award and acknowledged with the Phi Delta Kappa Management in Schooling Award. A proud Florida State College graduate with levels in Economics, Social Science and Criminology, lifetime alumni and booster, she stays lively within the FSU neighborhood, supervising faculty interns and galvanizing the way forward for schooling by means of know-how. Whether or not main, instructing or volunteering, she spreads her energetic spirit and conjures up others to spend money on our future—our kids!
Weblog: www.fetc.org
Twitter: https://x.com/JenWomble
Linked In: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jennwomble/
BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/jenwomble.bsky.social
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