Reflection on 2020 Horizon Report

 

 As far as i understood the horizon report does really fits its name, the word “horizon” isn’t just there to be look good. This report anlyzes data and comes up possible future outcomes in the education area, but as said in the introduction these prejectories are not always on point and hundred percent accurate. Writers of the horizon report know the challenges of trying to predict the future trends and they also know that even though the predictions could be wrong they still must be made. I have read the social, technological, economic, higher education and the political trends, and will be reflecting upon them.

 Horizon report examines 5 trends which are well explained in the report. I believe that we can use these 5 main consepts to explain most of the modern human made social constructs, therefore these trends are really helpful to inspect an important consept like education. Also the horizon report examines emerging technologies and practices, while doing it panelists came with few scenarios and implications.

 The trends in the horizon report are vast, but the way that the report explains them allows the reader to come up with new ideas. The explanations in the report does not limit the reader, it pushes the reader to think of new ideas.

 Social trends main point is finding solutions to the most common student problems, which are mental health issues, demographics and the equity problems in education area. These problems are directly connected to other trends and due to that their way of solving can be dependent to the upcoming advencements in those areas.

 Technological trends in any area can be connected to education. Education might not be always dependent to the tecnology, for example there are teachers who teach microsoft office programs with chalk and blackboard in Africa, but when there is the possibilty of the usage of technology in education it improves the quality of the technology. New technology also creates new methods of teaching, and with the fast improve rate of the current technology teaching methods could be constantly evolving.

 Economic trends and political trends affect us on a daily basis, from the choices of the politicians in our country to the exchange rate of our currency. So while trying to understand the economic and political trends we shouldn’t over look the our local status. The economy is higly bonded to the politics.

 Lastly the higher education is the one of the advancing areas of the education world. This is related to specific occasions. Firstly the virtual education is on the rise, this means the access to the education is easier than ever before, secondly the increase of the population results in competition while finding jobs, because of this people are constantly trying to get better education.

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