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Future of Education: New Learning Environments
on August 7, 2009
A vital resource I use when thinking about the future of education is the Map of Future Forces Affecting Education. It is both provocative and useful. This is the product of the 2006-2016 KnowledgeWorks Foundation and the Institute For The Future. It is a bit hard to follow on the screen since you can only see a part at a time, and the printable downloadable need to be pasted together. They stopped sending out hard copies, but they will send copies of their 2020 Forecast, which is equally provocative but is in a different format.
(Note: Some of the discussion is very distressing/upsetting/shocking — such as the Altering Bodies discussions about the brain being a site for alteration and maintenance — but it always good to know what some folks are thinking and talking about.)
Why bother reading it? The 2020 Forecast Web site states:
- A Radically Different World
If you think our future will require better schools, you're wrong.
The future of education calls for entirely new kinds of learning environments.
If you think we will need better teachers, you're wrong.
Tomorrow’s learners will need guides who take on fundamentally different roles.
As every dimension of our world evolves so rapidly, the education challenges of tomorrow will require solutions that go far beyond today’s answers.
I couldn't agree more. Thoughts?
—The assistant headmaster at Delphian School in Sheridan, Ore., Mark Siegel focuses on social studies, business/economics, science/technology and school information systems. Active in local, state and national public and private school affairs, Mark directs the Oregon Federation of Independent Schools and serves on the Council for American Private Education's board.
To read more blog entries by Mark Siegel, visit The Delphian School.
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