Schools and the Future

I have been following this group and reading as much as possible abotu what folks think school schould look like. I'd like to pose this question to the group. What should school's look like in 2015? How does the "read/write" web as Steve Hargadon calls it change the game of education and what do classes look like, feel like, sound like? What does the new school building look like? Is it different? The same? How?

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Permalink Reply by Bill McAninch on April 24, 2009 at 2:44pm

Jeff Utrecht, The Thinking Stick, wrote and interesting blog back in February about virtual high school initiatives in Washington, Oregon and Idaho. Very enlightening in view of what else I've been reading about advances in school architecture designed to be more in line with new pedagogies and collaborative environments. The blog also got me to envisioning the complete disappearance of schools--not schooling, but the physical buildings, and local, even state educational bureaucracies. Not only will the walls come down but political/educational boundaries will be eliminated and students will no longer be grouped, by age or otherwise. Initially, the new schooling systems may be commercial and competitive under the auspices of a federal department of curriculum compliance and assessment. How will students, parents, teachers and bureaucrats know when a student is ready to what? Matriculate? Graduate? What? Or could we leave the "what?" up to the business employment market? How could we handle social activities like sports, plays and concerts? Interesting.

Permalink Reply by Tom Ciaccio on April 25, 2009 at 8:13am

When students arrive in the 2015 school building, most everything will look the same except when they sit at their desk. They will notice that their desktop is a built in computer display with (when turned on) a visible keyboard. Teachers will have the option to mix things up, working freely with paper/pencil or clearing the desks and moving to the online world. Moving between these instructional methods will be simple and effortless.

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