 |
Recommended Reading
“Every student would use a small, handheld wireless computer that is voice activated. The computer would offer high-speed access to a kid-friendly Internet, populated with Web sites that are safe, designed specifically for use by students, with no pop-up ads. Using this device, students would complete most of their in-school work and homework, as well as take online classes both at school and at home. Students would use the small computer to play mathematics-learning games and read interactive e-textbooks. In completing their schoolwork, students would work closely and routinely with an intelligent digital tutor, and tap a knowledge utility to obtain factual answers to questions they pose. In their history studies, students could participate in 3-D virtual reality-based historic reenactments.”
Educators nationwide are working fast, trying to figure out how rapid advances in technology fit into public education. But the U.S. Department of Education and Department of Commerce, as well as NetDay, went to the source: students. They asked 55,000 students “What would you like to see invented that you think will help kids learn in the future?”
The world described above is a projection of their answers. Vision 2020.2 is the full report, which identifies four basic themes in students’ answers, provides a glimpse of some of the students’ ideas and projects what new technologies and educational innovations the future could hold. Find the report online at http://www.nctet.org/Visions2020-2.pdf.
| |
