School Day of the Future
Learning Happens Everywhere in the Future School Day
Flickr:NMCSecondLife Virtual Learning is seamlessly available to connect students to each other, to their learning guides, to experiential learning, to content, and to other mentors and learners around the world. Clearly, I’m not the first or only one who’s given thought to the notion of the idealized school day of the future. I’ve gotten some [...]
Students’ Own Interests Will Drive the School Day of the Future
The U.S. Department of Education has a clear vision of what the future school day should be. That’s apparent from my interviews with Karen Cator, the director of education technology. It’s also clearly outlined by the department’s deputy director Steve Midgley. I asked Midgley to spell out his thoughts about the topic. I think if [...]
Students Learn at Their Own Pace in the Future School Day
School of One Each student learns at his or her own pace in the ideal school day of the future, according to Christopher Rush, co-founder of the School of One. In practice, this is already happening with the New York school pilot program. A student arrives in school in the morning and answers five questions [...]
Future School Day Encourages Exploration
A vision of the school day of the future from Curtis Wong, principal researcher at Microsoft focusing on interaction, media, and visualization technologies. Wong has authored more than 45 patents pending in areas such as interactive television, media browsing, visualization, search, gaming and learning. Wong worked on Project Tuva, which links the lectures of Nobel [...]
Future School Day Should Be Based on the Real World
Continuing the series on the future school day, here’s how Rob Lippincott, PBS Senior Vice President, Education, believes the ideal should be. Learning is a dynamic, just-in-time, fully interactive set of experiences that add up to life. We are ALL learning at ALL times. Schooling is a societal structure designed to accomplish a frustratingly amorphous [...]
Work or Fun? The Future School Day Blurs the Boundary
When kids are having fun, they don’t even realize they’re working. The learning process happens organically: curiosity is piqued, and their quest to learn is turned on like a light switch. Off they go. Dr. Sugata Mitra’s vision of the future school day revolves around the flip of that switch. And everything in his experience, [...]
School Day of the Future: Learning in 2025
What will a typical school day in the year 2020 (or beyond) look like? How and where will kids learn? What will be the role of the teacher, the parent, the education community? Over the coming weeks, I’ll post responses from respected authorities on the field byway of articles, video interviews, and innovative projects. We’ll [...]
Envision the School Day of the Future
By all accounts, the education community is in the midst of a profound shift, straddling between the constraints of its legacy while pushing for much-needed change. Part of the anxiety around these changes is the uncertainty of the future. No one wants to experiment with the welfare of our kids, but at the same [...]
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