Read the passage given below and answer the following questions. Some words have been highlighted in the passage for your attention. The future is about access, anywhere learning and collaboration, both locally and globally Teaching and learning are going to be social. Schools of the fixture could have a traditional cohort of students, as well as online-only students who live across the country or even the world. Things are already starting to move this way with the emergence of massive open online coxirses (MOOCs). The fixture of technology in education is the cloud. Schools will only need one major thing to be prepared for the fixture. They will not need software installed, servers or local file storage. Schools will need a fast-robust internet coxmection. Infrastructiue is paramount to the future of technology in education. Teachers can use the cloud to set, collect and grade work online. Students will have instant access to grades, comments and work via a computer, smartphone or tablet. This is where devices come in. All devices no matter which ones we will use in the future will need to access the cloud. Each student will have their own. Either a device specified by the school or one they have chosen to bring in themselves. School classrooms are going to change. With the cloud, the world will be our classroom. E-leanxing will change teaching and learning. Students can learn from anywhere and teachers can teach from anywhere. The cloud can also encoxxrage independent learning. Teachers could adopt a flipped classroom approach more often. Students will take ownership of their own learning. Teachers can put resoxxrces online for students to use. These could be videos, documents, audio podcasts or interactive images. All these resoxxrces can be accessed via a student's computer, smartphone or tablet. As long as they have an internet coimection either via Wi-Fi, 3G, or 4G they are good to go. Rather than being 'taught' students can learn independently and in their own way. There is also a massive amount of resources online that students can find and use themselves, without the help of the teacher. This, of course, means the role of the teacher will change. What we must remember is that when schools adopt new technology and services, they must be evaluated. This way, as a school, you know if they are successful and what improvements are needed. Staff will also need training, you can’t expect staff to use new technology if they are not confident users or creators. Any initiative is doomed to failure without well trained, confident staff who can see how technology can suppoit and benefit teaching and learning. Plenty of schools have already embraced this, but there’s still a long way to go to ensure all schools are ready for the future of technology. It is time for all schools to embrace the cloud. What does the author mean by the sentence, "The fixtxue of technology in education is the cloud."?
