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Wed 29 Dec, 2010 12:47 pm
Some of the ideas being tossed around on another thread got me thinking about what kind of changes we might see in public education over the next.... say ... 50 years.
Here's my prediction:
Kids will show up on the first day of school and be issued a computer. The teacher will interview each kid and enter some pertinent information.
The kid will independently work on their lessons. The computer will "design" the curriculum for each student and keep the teacher apprised of their progress. Each child would advance based on their mastery of any given subject.
Every day the kids will go to class and they'll do group projects, have field trips, do sports and art, and play. This would be a group of same aged kids, with a little leeway based on their ability and interest, sort of Montessori style.
What do you think schools will look like in 50 years?
I think they'll look like concrete gun emplacements, and every child will spend an hour a day on the rifle range. It will be all your life is worth to show up on school property without a slip from the Inspector General of Indoctrination Programs.
@Setanta,
Did you ever read Chuck Palahniuck's "Pygmy"? I think Pygmy went to that school.
@boomerang,
No, but i'll check that out. (I was not, of course, being serious . . . the little perishers are dangerous enough without arming them.)
@Setanta,
Mo would like that rifle range bit. If there was pee-wee ROTC he'd be the first to sign up.
I can't believe nobody has any ideas on what future schools might look like!
Does anyone think they will look exactly like they do now?
@boomerang,
I think the gap between public and private schools will be enormous by then...
@Rockhead,
I think there is a good chance that public education will have been privatized by then. We've been moving in that direction for several years already with the idea of charter schools.
Scary!
i think that it will be like something from star trek. remember the vulcan school scene with spo(c?)k ? i think we should model off of that. the vulcans seem pretty smart...
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