A telecommunications network that links students together and that supports everything from data to video exchange would take education out of isolated classrooms, allowing computer-based systems to be set up at home, in local businesses, and at new community-based learning centers around Colorado.
Predictor: Lyell, Ed
Prediction, in context:In a 1993 Wired magazine interview with Connie Guglielmo about his election to the Colorado State Board of Education, Ed Lyell discusses his vision of an individualized learning system. Guglielmo writes: ”To make this individualized learning system a reality also requires that we as a society shift away from what Lyell describes as edifice-based learning. ‘We have an educational system today where 99 percent of the capital goes into buildings …,’ says Lyell. A telecommunications network that links students together and that supports everything from data to video exchange would take education out of isolated classrooms, allowing computer-based systems to be set up at home, in local businesses, and at new community-based learning centers around Colorado.”
Biography:Ed Lyell was an educator and education administrator who foresaw uses for the Internet in schools and became a popular public speaker on the topic. (Futurist/Consultant.)
Date of prediction: January 1, 1993
Topic of prediction: Getting, Sharing Information
Subtopic: E-learning
Name of publication: Wired
Title, headline, chapter name: Man With a Plan: Ed Lyell Has Actually Been Elected to the Colorado State Board of Education
Quote Type: Partial quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/1.06/lyell_pr.html
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: McAlister, Rory