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Bill Gates : Microsoft School of the future programme
http://www.bbcworld.com/Pages/ProgrammeFeature.aspx?id=18&FeatureID=304 Bill Gates : Microsoft School of the future programme .. interview ... online video Developed from several school technology collaborations, Microsoft's Innovative Schools project aims to experiment with different ways technology can help schools in the 21st century. Earlier in 2007 Bill Gates announced the introduction of 12 Innovative Schools around the world. Part of a BBCworld CLICK programme www.bbcworld.com/click |
 
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8 Steps to 21st Century Learning
http://www.21centuryconnections.com/node/114 8 Steps to 21st Century Learning Although change is desirable, it often does not happen easily. Here are some useful ways to facilitate change and implement 21st Century Learning. As the building block of our society, our schools deserve the same diligence that companies give to their businesses. Re-directing schools to adapt 21st Century Learning means change - which is not always easy ... |
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21st Century Connections News
http://www.21centuryconnections.com/ 21st Century Connections News Newsletter and the 21st Century Connections web site were created by Technology & Learning and brought to you by a partnership of Lenovo, Adobe, Intel, and Futurekids. Beyond the basics, students will need 21st century competencies to survive and thrive in the future. They will have to know how to think critically, apply knowledge to new situations, analyze information, understand new ideas, communicate effectively, collaborate, solve problems, and make decisions. |
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New Schools for a New Millennium
http://tinyurl.com/32s4uf New Schools for a New Millennium I.B. Asia Pacific Teachers Convention March 2007 (pdf of Handout) |
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Teaching and Learning in the 21st century
http://tinyurl.com/2ttp9k Teaching & Learning in the 21st century I.B. Asia Pacific Teachers Convention March 2007 (pdf of PowerPoint) |
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Map of Future Forces Affecting Education
http://www.kwfdn.org/map/map.aspx Map of Future Forces Affecting Education KnowledgeWorks Foundation (KWF) and the Institute For The Future (IFTF) are pleased to present the KWF/IFTF Map of Future Forces Affecting Education. The map was created by aggregating the opinions of relevant experts who create intensive case studies based on field research. he map is a forecast — a credible, internally consistent view of how future forces will affect the components of public education. It is not a prediction; it does not claim to be a certain statement of what will happen. As a result, the map is most helpful if users do not quarrel with the forecast. Since the future as spelled out in the map might plausibly happen, you can make use of it to spark your thinking about education, regardless of whether or not the map turns out to be a perfectly accurate prediction. |
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Education for Sustainable Development
http://tinyurl.com/4ceyf United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development |
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Education for Innovative Societies in the 21st c
http://en.g8russia.ru/docs/12.html Education for Innovative Societies in the 21st century The document "Education for Innovative Societies in the 21st Century," approved by the G8 Summit in St. Petersburg, recognized the need to promote synergies between science, education and innovation and welcomed the Italian proposal to organize, in collaboration with UNESCO, a "World Forum on Education, Innovation and Research: New Partnership for Sustainable Development". |
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Futurists' Lectures
http://www.natasha.cc/futurists.htm Futurists' Lectures The Futures Podcast Lecture Series is a University of Houston, Future Studies project created by futurist Natasha Vita-More as an elective taught by Education Specialist Andy Hines during the fall semester of 2005. This project received recognition as "Best of Houston Futures" and is to be presented at the World Future Society 2006 Conference in Toronto, Canada. The Futures Podcast Lecture Series features nine reputable speakers who develop ideas about—and produce solutions for—the future. This series provides a wealth of interesting lectures on selected topics about the near and far future, enhance the knowledge and understanding of students about the people involved in the future, and add in the growing curriculum of the Future Studies program. Lectures cover topics and issues that pertain to the future and STEEP domains. They suggest how students can apply “tools” such as strategic planning, systems thinking, forecasting, modeling, and research methods, and other tools which students are learning in the Future Studies program. |
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Future Education : Videos and PowerPoints
http://futureeducationvideos.blogspot.com/ The link above goes to one of the Shambles "Forest of Theme Blogs" pages that provides videos and other multimedia resources to support the topic here. If you would like to see all of the Theme Blogs then go to the full list at http://www.shambles.net/blogforest or click where you see this button 
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National (USA) Education Technology Plan
http://tinyurl.com/gnl6g National (USA) Education Technology Plan The U.S. Department of Education, in partnership with the U.S. Department of Commerce and NetDay, has released Visions 2020.2: Student Views on Transforming Education and Training Through Advanced Technologies. A view of future schools, teachers and students This (USA) document presents a vision of future schools, students, teachers and learning. It contains some useful statistics on how ICT (technology) is being used in USA Education It paints a picture of how a student in the year year 2020 will be using technology. It asked 55,000 students the question ... "Today, you and your fellow students are important users of technology. In the future, you will be the inventors of new technologies. What would you like to see invented that you think will help kids learn in the future?" Visions 2020.2 begins with an exploration of how today’s K-12 aged youth—the so called New Millennials—use digital technologies. The analysis then explores four themes commonly touched on in the students’ answers: • Digital Devices • Access to Computers and the Internet • Intelligent Tutor/Helper • Ways to Learn and Complete School Work Using Technology |
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TIME Magazine Article (Jan 2007)
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1568480,00.html How to Bring Our Schools Out of the 20th Century: TIME Magazine Article (Jan 2007) American schools aren't exactly frozen in time, but considering the pace of change in other areas of life, our public schools tend to feel like throwbacks. Kids spend much of the day as their great-grandparents once did: sitting in rows, listening to teachers lecture, scribbling notes by hand, reading from textbooks that are out of date by the time they are printed How To Build a Student For the 21st Century The world has changed, but the American classroom, for the most part, hasn't. Now educators are starting to look at what must be done to make sure our kids make the grade in the new global economy |
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21st Century Mobile learning
http://www.learning2go.org/ 21st Century Mobile learning Many educationalists have come to the view that in order for learners to engage with their education in the 21st Century, they need to have greater access to the technology that is now embedded into their every day lives. The young learners currently starting school are among the first learners who were born in the 21st century. They are learners born into a world where mobile devices, games consoles, the internet, interactive TV and constant 24-7 multimedia are common place. How will our current educational system respond to this change in our way of life? This also includes an online video |
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ICT use in the future (video forecast)
http://www.lps.k12.co.us/schools/arapahoe/warriorportal/2020vision.wmv OK .. so not really research but more an exercise of fortune telling ... of what's to come ICT use in the future (video forecast) Visit the Blog at http://tinyurl.com/yj8o6u for more details. Google Takes Over the Wiorld (video) ... one persons view of the future This has an education and school perspective ... excellent for stimulating discussion with students and teachers about what is to come in the world of learning and ICT. |
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Transforming Learning in the School of the Future
http://www.future-learning.net/ Transforming Learning in the School of the Future : Toolkit This web site has developed from many ideas representing the professional experiences over 80 Naace members. By classifying those ideas, identifying the key property of each idea and arranging these properties in order of recurrence, we have created the Naace Future Learning Toolkit - a checklist that can be used to confirm the presence of each key element within a school's plan for transforming learning. The result represents a reference point for a Naace concensus about what is meant by 'Transformed Education', and how it can be brought about in the School of the Future. The Future Learning Toolkit is more than a self review of existing practice. It maps out an ambitious journey to go beyond what is currently accepted as best practice, in order to make the systemic changes needed to be transformational rather than just optimal. |
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Building Schools for the Future (BSF) Documents
http://www.bsf.gov.uk/documents/ Building Schools for the Future (BSF) Documents Educational Vision Nov 2004 | Schools for the Future design Guide | |
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Teaching and Learning for the 21st Century
https://www.myscschools.com/offices/tech/ms/lms/page1360.cfm IMPACT: Teaching and Learning for the 21st Century South Carolina K-12 Information Literacy and Technology Integration Guide Collaborative Planning Guide | Establishing Teaching collaborations | Information Literacy and Technology Standards Alignment within The Big6 Framework | K-12 Performance Matrix | Lesson Design Template | Overview of Student-centered Learning | Overview of The Big6 | Productivity Software Suggestions | Skills guide | Suggestions for Student Final Projects | |
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Visit the School of the Future
http://www.microsoft.com/education/demos/schooloffuture/index.html See how Microsoft and the School District of Philadelphia are collaborating on the school of the future. Take a virtual tour of the building and meet the visionaries involved through this interactive demo. |
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Redesigning Learning Environments
http://www.edutopia.org/redesigning/home.html Redesigning Learning Environments |
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Forced Education: Schools of the Future
http://www.downes.ca/me/presentations.htm Forced Education: Schools of the Future [PowerPoint Slides] Asked to do a 'future of learning' presentation, outlining the drivers of change in the school system, I tried to show that while schools will certainly change, for every driver there is a "back-seat driver" which removes the inevitability of change, placing a series of choices into the hands of teachers. |
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Governing the School of the Future
http://www.wired-gov.net/WGLaunch.aspx?ARTCL=29669 Governing the School of the Future, a document which sets out the UK Government's vision for school governors and encourages greater participation from employers, is published today by the Department for Education and Skills. The document celebrates the contribution and achievements of school governors and highlights the pivotal role governors can play in shaping schools. It also sets out some of the practical benefits to employers who actively support and encourage their staff to serve as governors. www.governornet.co.uk/schoolofthefuture |
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Futures - meeting the challenge (QCA UK)
http://www.qca.org.uk/10969.html Futures - meeting the challenge (QCA UK) Feb. 2005 QCA launched the Futures programme, a new initiative to ensure that the national curriculum and assessment frameworks are responsive to the changing demands of work and life in the 21st century. QCA futures: meeting the challenge aims to promote broad debate rather than consider specific reform. We want to ensure that curriculum development responds to changing demands and is informed by the latest and best thinking. |
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School of the Future
http://www.microsoft.com/Education/SchoolofFuture.aspx The School District of Philadelphia and Microsoft are working together on an ambitious and purposeful task: To build a "School of the Future." To accomplish this mission, we will be bringing together the best of what industry and education has to offer, and creating a blueprint of possibility. And as with any grand undertaking, the journey itself is the greatest value; therefore, it is imperative that we record and share not only the outcomes but the process as well. |
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Model for education in the 21st Century
http://www.teachers.work.co.nz/archive.htm In this article we have developed an overarching model for education in the 21st Century covering aspects such as : The purpose of Education | ICT infrastructure | Software | The Answer is the Internet | Teaching Pedagogy | Professional Development | The Role of the Ministry/Department of Education | Standards! | |
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21st Century Literacies : Tools for Reading the World
http://www.noodletools.com/debbie/literacies/21c.html 21st Century Literacies : Tools for Reading the World In Intelligence Reframed Howard Gardner contends that ?iteracies, skills, and disciplines ought to be pursued as tools that allow us to enhance our understanding of important questions, topics, and themes.? Today's readers become literate by learning to read the words and symbols in today's world and its antecedents. They analyze, compare, evaluate and interpret multiple representations from a variety of disciplines and subjects, including texts, photographs, artwork, and data. They learn to choose and modify their own communication based on the rhetorical situation. Point of view is created by the reader, the audience and the medium. |
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Threshold Explore the Future of Teaching & Learning
http://www.ciconline.org/AboutCIC/Publications/threshold.htm Threshold Explore the Future of Teaching & Learning Schools that neglect to anticipate and plan for the future risk becoming outdated and will fail to prepare students for life after graduation, according to the latest issue of Threshold: Exploring the Future of Education, a thought-provoking journal for K12 education administrators. Published by Cable in the Classroom with editorial collaboration by ISTE? the summer issue's theme is, "Think Forward: Technology, Innovation, and the Future of Learning." |
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New Learning Environments
http://pd.l2l.org/teach.html New Learning Environments .. traditional vs New Don't be blinded by the flashing lights, bells and whistles of the cutting edge presentation tools. Sound Educational judgment must govern the use of technology and link the learning activities to National or State Academic Standards and your school's mission critical curriculum. |
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School Daze
http://www.workingforchange.com/comic.cfm?itemid=16612 School Daze .. is this the future in education in the real world ... fun flash files with politic undertones (maybe) - USA) |
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A Classroom without Walls
http://www.time.com/time/teach/class.html An alternative picture from the same classroom: 15 students are scattered about the room in groups of threes and fours; a dozen of their classmates are doing scientific field-work at a nearby state forest, scanning pla nt samples for a multimedia presentation with a hand-held digital camera. The rest of the kids are logging on to school from home or elsewhere. In the classroom, one group of students is exploring a simulated excavation site of an ancient Greek city, whil e a few others join a group of students from England on a virtual-reality bike expedition to study local flora in the Yucatan in Mexico. The teacher is a guide on their journeys, not just a lecturer. |
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The Emergent 21st Century Teacher
http://www.i-learnt.com/ The Emergent 21st Century Teacher Most teachers want to ask clever, high order thinking questions that assist students in processing information and knowledge into conceptual models of understanding. The difficulty has been that to set clever questions, teachers require rich information landscapes in which students can access suitable resources to build these conceptual frameworks. The only practical way to supply sufficiently rich information landscapes is via the Internet. |
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21st Century Information Fluency (21cif) Portal
http://wizard.imsa.edu/ Welcome to the 21st Century Information Fluency (21cif) Portal. This site provides news, information, tools, and standards-aligned instructional strategies for information literacy/fluency in K-16 |
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Classrooms of the Future (UK initiative)
http://tinyurl.com/x6oz Classrooms of the Future (UK initiative) The Classrooms of the Future initiative started out with the aim of challenging current thinking on school building design. Raising educational standards is one of the government? top priorities, and this is reflected in the huge increases in capital investment in schools taking place. To ensure this is put to best use, we needed to test out new ideas and construct a vision of how schools should be designed in the future. |
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The UK 21st-Century Skills Strategy
http://www.dfes.gov.uk/skillsstrategy The 21st-Century Skills Strategy aims to strengthen the UK's position as one of the world's leading economies by ensuring that employers have the skills to support the success of their business, and that employees have the necessary skills to be both employable and personally fulfilled. |
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Key issues for the 21st-century school (UK)
http://www.teachernet.gov.uk/schoolsforthefuture/ Key issues for the 21st-century school |
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On-line questionaire / assessment
http://www.21stcenturyskills.org/resources/online_assessment_info.asp Find out how your school measures up for 21st Century Skills ... online questionaire The MILE Guide for 21st Century Skills will allow educators and administrators to measure the progress of their schools in defining, teaching and assessing 21st Century Skills. This tool will help schools integrate 21st Century Skills with basic skills resulting in a stronger, more effective curriculum. |
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Classroom of the Future at Ruamrudee School Thailand
http://www.rism.ac.th/MSweb/academic/future/index.asp# Classroom of the Future at Ruamrudee School Thailand We began the Classroom of the Future Project so students could creatively design solutions, in teams, with efficient tools. In the classroom of the future, the technology is an extension of our selves, although critical thought remains our primary endeavor. |
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The Partnership for 21st Century Skills
http://www.21stcenturyskills.org/ The Partnership for 21st Century Skills is a public-private organization formed to define and incorporate into learning the skills that are necessary for every student's success in the 21st Century. The Partnership brings together educators, administrators, parents, businesses, and community leaders to determine how to define and assess these skills, as well as to make recommendations and provide tools for their implementation. The Partnership advocates a model of learning that builds upon the current emphasis on core subjects and assessment to create a modern context that will enable students to be successful in the new millennium. It has published a free report, Learning in the 21st Century, a companion MILE (Milestones for Improving Learning and Education) Guide for 21st Century Skills and the MILE Guide On-line Self-assessment Questionnaire to help communities develop a framework for moving forward. |
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Designing Future Learning Environments
http://glef.org/redesigning/home.html Designing Future Learning Environments |
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21st Century Skills (UK)
http://www.dfes.gov.uk/skillsstrategy/ 21st Century Skills (UK) The Skills Strategy White Paper sets out our skills challenge and how it will be met. The Strategy aims to strengthen the UK's position as one of the world's leading economies by ensuring that employers have the skills to support the success of their business, and that employees have the necessary skills to be both employable and personally fulfilled. In order to do this we need to build a new skills alliance where every employer, employee and citizen plays their part. The Prime Minister, Tony Blair, outlines how the government intends to take up and meet the skills challenge. |
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The 12 steps to transform an outdated model
http://www.thelearningweb.net/education-schools-future.html Schools - the world's best school systems The 12 steps to transform an outdated model |
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Thinking Primary Schools (TPS)
http://www.hkbu.edu.hk/~think/ Thinking Primary Schools (TPS) In the 21st Century, facing the knowledge economy changes in Hong Kong, the traditional educational methods are not sufficient to help the youth to face the challenges in the community. The thinking education can help them to think, understand and solve problems through different approaches. Since 1993, the introduction of the subject Creative and Critical Thinking in the Diploma of Education of Hong Kong Baptist University, has gradually built up a driving force in thinking education. The objective of Thinking Primary Schools program is to familiarize the primary school teachers with the strategy of teaching thinking skills, so that the quality of students learning can be enhanced. |
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21st Century Skills
http://www.ncrel.org/engauge/skills/skills.htm 21st Century Skills 21st-Century Skills presents a research-based discussion of the skills needed by students and workers in the emerging Digital Age. This site identifies and describes the skills students will need to possess to be "literate and educated" in the 21st Century. NCREL, the North Central Regional Lab and creator of this site, describes in detail the characteristics of 21st Century skills in four areas: Digital Age Literacy, Inventive Thinking, Effective Communication, and High Productivity. future | skills | |
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Edutopia Radio Show Archives
http://glef.org/voiceamer.html Edutopia Radio Show Archive "Edutopia" is a weekly Internet radio talk show from The George Lucas Educational Foundation, hosted by GLEF Executive Director Milton Chen. The one-hour talk show features key educators and students, as well as business, government, and community leaders, discussing educational innovation. It broadcasts each Thursday at 12:00 PM PT (3:00 PM ET) on Voiceamerica.com. Assessment | Emotional Intelligence | Project-Based Learning | School-to-Career | Technology Integration | Mentoring | Ongoing Professional Development | Teacher Preparation | Technology Professional Development | Innovative School Design | Students As Multimedia Producers | Multiple Intelligences | Emotional Intelligence | Science Centers and Informal Learning | Digital Textbooks and Universal Design | Project-Based Learning and Community Partnerships | Technology and Teacher Education | Community Schools | Parent and Community Involvement | Project-Based Learning in High School Math | |
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2020 Vision - A Glimpse Into The Future
http://tlfe.org.uk/future/ The class switched on their electronic whitepads.(Please see footnote 1) The date 05.05.20 was flashing in the top left hand corner. The electronic whiteboard at the front was playing a video collage of groups of adults making various decisions based on their interpretations of data. Overlaid on this video was a matrix showing the day's learning programmes ...... Mary clicked her whitepad and the timetable appeared - she touched MaIP to see the range of topics on offer next week. Looking around the class she saw her usual friends who were on a similar learning pathway to her own. Today was an IP and the topic was "Using measures of centre and spread". |
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Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies
http://www.cifs.dk/en/default.asp Every day companies and organisations make decisions, that is, strategic decisions of great importance for the future. Decisions that often have to be made quickly. Contributing with knowledge and inspiration, the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies supports decision-making. We identify and analyse trends that influence the future nationally and internationally. Through research, analyses, seminars, presentations, reports, and newsletters, we give advice on the future. The objective of the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies is to strengthen the basis for decision-making in public and private organisations by creating awareness of the future and highlighting its importance to the present. The work of the Institute is interdisciplinary. The staff represents various fields of academic and professional backgrounds such as economics, political science, ethnography, psychology, engineering, PR and sociology. future | school | schools | organisations | |
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Headteachers talking about the school of the future
http://www.ncsl.org.uk/mediastore/image2/ldev-slictpres.html Listen to some of the thoughts of UK headteachers , talking about their vision of what a school of the future would feel like. From an inservice course called Strategic Leadership of ICT (SLICT) in the UK These audio files combines with 'flash' display of text are very useful to encourage discussion. (also download easily even with a dial-up connection) Excellent INSET resource future | school | curriculum | skills | leadership | inset | |
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Students Design Ideal School
http://www.iste.org/studentleadership/index.html Put a doctor from the 1960s in a hospital today and he will be overwhelmed. Put a teacher from the 1960s in a school today and in many cases, he will fit right in. He may have to revise his discipline procedures to not include corporal punishment, and white boards may seem strange at first, but the teacher will easily adjust. In a world that has changed so much, it's a shock to see how little schools have changed. This train of thought is what led to the ISTE Student Technology Leadership Symposium of 2001. The symposium charged its participants with creating an ideal learning environment for students in high school. Not one high school principal, teacher, or faculty member was involved. Instead, 24 high school students from around the United States and South Africa contributed their ideas. school | future | |
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Classroom of the Future
http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/kiddesign/cof.shtml There is ongoing debate as to what role technology should play in the classroom. The concerns become ever greater when researchers discuss early childhood education. We are exploring the possibilities for the Classroom of the Future by partnering with students and teachers at The Center for Young Children in College Park, Maryland and Yorktown Elementary School in Bowie, Maryland. The aim of this five-year National Science Foundation funded project is to foster innovation in both the development and use of new educational technologies. Research in the area of educational technologies generally focuses on the impact technologies can have on children and teachers, as opposed to the impact that children and teachers can have on the development of new technologies. classroom | future | |
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Towards the classroom of the future
http://search.ngfl.gov.uk/webx/vtc/fclassrpt.pdf Good teaching and effective learning have always been about making lessons interactive, relevant, memorable, fun. And our teachers have always been innovators, pioneering new learning materials and new approaches. Now the extraordinary pace of change in information and communication technologies is offering teachers, parents and pupils exciting new opportunities. In the future, technology could beam top experts from universities or business into the classrooms of inner-city schools; pupils will use the Net for research and use e-mail for live discussions; children will not be limited to the subjects their school offers, but could link in to on-screen lessons with children from other schools. Case studies | ICT | School | Future | Classroom | |
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Future Perspective
http://www.thejournal.com/magazine/vault/A2598.cfm Technology is on the verge of fundamentally reshaping the American education system. In particular, the technology to deliver full-length courses online is rapidly becoming a reality. The creation and delivery of courses over the Web will be the driving force for educational change in the 21st century. The computer will allow the creation of "learn by doing" courses designed by the best and the brightest experts in any given field. Quality universities will put their names on these courses, and companies will create them, guaranteeing employment to those who pass them. This will create tremendous change for everyone involved in the education system. |
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