Contents
Foreword …………………………………………………………………………………………. 1
Only if Past Trends Persist Is the Future Dismal ………………………………………… 2
Curriculum Then and Now …………………………………………………………………… 6
Classroom Teaching in 2030 ……………………………………………………………….. 11
Equality and Technology ……………………………………………………………………. 17
Time Spent on Learning ……………………………………………………………………… 24
Standards and Competitive Rigor ………………………………………………………… 30
An Evidence-Based World ………………………………………………………………….. 37
A New Education Federalism ……………………………………………………………… 45
Reinvented School Districts ……………………………………………………………….. 52
A New Politics of Education ……………………………………………………………….. 59
Vouchers Thrive ………………………………………………………………………………. 65
School Choice ………………………………………………………………………………….. 70
What Can Happen in Twenty Years? …………………………………………………….. 77
About the Authors ……………………………………………………………………………. 82
Koret Task Force on K–12 Education ……………………………………………………. 85
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This is the type of board — preferably a very large multi-touch surface — that I would
like to see in the Future Smart Classroom. That’s one big giant iPad/iPhone! 🙂
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From DSC:
Note the quote from Ira Snyder that says:
Mouse Mischief is designed to “turn students from passive observers to active participants”
Now let’s play this out a bit. If K-12’rs are starting to use more and more of these types of interactive technologies and are becoming active participants in their learning, how does that affect their expectations when they come into our colleges and universities? To me, change is not an option for those of us in higher ed. Here are my concerns if we follow the status quo:
Project Dream School — from EducationFutures.com
Project Dream School starts with a simple question:
If you could build a dream school, what would you do?
Furthermore:
What would the building look like? The methods? The teachers? Technology? The mission? …does it need to be a school, or should it be a bootcamp for designing futures… life… the perfect job?
Last Thursday, many great minds assembled to discuss just this… and how to make it happen. Sir Ken Robinson, Jeff Jarvis and I joined the discussion by Skype with Peter de Visser (principal), Marcel Kampman (creative organizer), Ellen Mashhaupt, Bianca Geerts, Fons van den Berg, Rob van der Ploeg, Bram Verhave (Architecture historian STEK, advisor to Chief government Architect), Peter de Visser, Ton Dohle, Bjorn Eerkes, Maurice Mikkers, Lex Hupe, Arjan Dingsté, Hartger Meihuizen (staff Stad&Esch), Roel Fleurke (staff Stad&Esch), Koene Kisjes (student Stad&Esch), Christian Paauwe (student Stad&Esch), Bart Hoekstra (student Stad&Esch), Jan Albert Westenbrink, and Annette Stekelenburg.
The project will have a website up-and-running soon at projectdreamschool.org, and also in Dutch at: projectdroomschool.org. As a Skype (distant) participant, I really cannot report on how the entire discussion went, so make sure to follow the project sites for their take on the meeting and their next actions as they work to transform their dreams into reality.
Stay tuned… more soon!
Postscript: Here is my Dream School…
Adaptive learning: Putting an idea into practice at the School of One — from EducationNext.org by Paul E. Peterson
Time magazine touted “the School of One” as one of the 50 top innovations of 2009—the only educational innovation to be given that honor. As described in Time, “each day, students in the School of One are given a unique lesson plan — a ‘daily playlist’— tailored to their learning style and rate of progress that includes a mix of virtual tutoring, in-class instruction and educational video games (emphasis DSC).” I stopped by a New York City middle school using the School of One last week to see how new technologies that help teachers adapt to each student’s learning level actually work in practice.
Educators, like designers, can benefit from identifying the student price point, the material the student is now ready and prepared to learn. With adaptive testing technologies now available, schools can quickly and efficiently obtain weekly, perhaps daily, information on what a student knows. Teaching can zero in on the price point, so the student is not given something that is either too advanced or too repetitive of what he or she already knows.
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School of One takes this idea one step further by also trying to identify student interests and learning styles as well. If a boy is a Little Leaguer; then baseball statistics may be the best way to teach math. If a girl plays volleyball, the examples can be modified accordingly.
