We should have learning centers, neighborhood electronic cottages.
Predictor: Lyell, Ed
Prediction, in context:In an interview with Connie Guglielmo about his election to the Colorado State Board of Education, Ed Lyell discusses his vision of the future of computers and education. Gugliemo writes: ”We should have learning centers, neighborhood electronic cottages,’ Lyell says. ‘In a sense it’s going back to the pioneer days where you had small schools with students of different ages and just one or two teachers overseeing them and teaching many subjects.’ The idea of these community-based learning centers is at the heart of a proposal Lyell has authored as a senior fellow of the Center for the New West, a 20-state non-profit think tank that was established by Colorado-based cable and telecommunications provider US West but is now funded by more than 200 corporate sponsors. The goal of Lyell’s New West Learning Community Project is to bring parents, teachers, businesses, and community groups together to begin to design and create prototypes of the interactive multimedia lessons that would form the basis of a Just-in-Time Learning system … Lyell is not expecting a revolution. Instead, computer and telecommunications technology, Lyell believes, will be the driving force leading to gradual and evolutionary changes. ‘For the first time in my life,’ he says. ‘I’m really hopeful.'”
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: Paraphrase
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/1.06/lyell_pr.html
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