ABSTRACT

This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book looks at classrooms as makerspaces; it may encounter children making teaching tools and doing much of the teaching of one another by using technologies that is already on the horizon. It inquiries about how student teachers reflect critically on their activities, they are likely to encounter the depths of metacognition far beyond what we know now and, perhaps, even test this with machines. The book analyses pedagogical standards as texts, but in a set of classroom inquiries their work could gain a different currency, and policymakers may have to acknowledge that desired standards do not fit all circumstances. Teacher educators had to live the change for which they had been training student teachers from the lectern and in practicums. The much talked about 21st century skills had to be put in motion at a rapid pace and via information technology.