Photos show how classrooms have changed for millennials, Gen Z, and Gen Alpha
Source: Business Insider ·
Since 2000, classrooms in the US have seen dramatic changes. Photos show technology differences, cultural shifts between generations, and more.
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Two students use Smart Board technology on December 10, 2010.John Carl D'Annibale /Albany Times Union via Getty ImagesUS classrooms have changed dramatically since the early 2000s.They've changed through technology, mainly from computers and tablets to social media and AI.Photos show how Millennials, Gen Z, and Gen Alpha all grew up in vastly different classrooms.Much like the rest of the world, US classrooms have changed quite a bit since the beginning of the 21st century.The onslaught of technological advancement, from the internet and computers to AI, has brought the biggest changes to US education, but societal changes have, too.The rise of social media in the early 2010s changed how students interact with each other, and an uptick in school shootings in the mid-to-late 2010s called for heightened security systems across various school districts.Add in a pandemic at the beginning of the 2020s, and classrooms were nearly unrecognizable from what they looked like in the early…