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The Future of EducationTodd Scholl
Coordinator of Communications & Technology
DisclaimerSome of the information you will hear
during this presentation is speculative.The information presented was taken from
others including: Ray Kurzweil,Sir Ken Robinson, Thomas Frey and
others.
what we can learn from the railroad industry
When other forms of transportation evolved, instead of embracing these trends and growing
with them, the railroads resisted. Had the railroad companies recognized that they were actually in the transportation business, they
could have integrated highways, trucks, autos and fueling stations into their already powerful
business.
What caused the demise of the once-powerful railroads? They were product-oriented, not
customer-oriented. They wanted to dictate what the customer needed, not listen to what the
customer wanted.
How can educators learn from the demise of railroad companies?Discuss this with a neighbor.
“Everyone takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world.”
- Arthur Schopenhauer
To understand the future we must look at the past.
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So predicting the future requires us to look at patterns.
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“Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equipped with 18,000 vacuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers of
the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps weigh
1.5 tons.”
- popular mechanic, 1949
"When I was a student at MIT, we all shared one computer and it took up a whole building. The computer in your cell phone today is a million
times cheaper and a thousand times more powerful. What now fits in
your pocket 25 years from now will fit into a blood cell and will again be
millions of times more cost effective."
- Ray Kurzweil
what would it mean for a computer to have the same power as the
human brain?Discuss this with a neighbor.
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Support for Kurzweil’s Theory
Implications for the near future of education
Learning > Teaching
individualization > Standardization
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Decentralization of schoolsOpen Education
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What impact will open coursewarehave on schools as we know them?
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Teachers becoming guides, coaches & mentors
Further down the line...Man and machine will merge.
This means we will have the ability to download knowledge and skills.
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Once we are able to download all knowledge and many skills to the non-biological portions
of our brains, what will happen to schools?
Discuss this with a neighbor.
Computer-Assisted Instruction will become fully immersive.Lifelike androids and virtual environments will replace “real” teachers and “real”
classrooms.
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If computers will soon be vastly smarter than humans, what will that mean for the future of human teachers?
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“First we build the tools, then they build us.”- Marshall McLuhan
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For Further Studywww.futureofeducation.com
www.davinciinstitute.com/speakers/futurist-speaker-thomas-frey
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