Schools, now among the most intellectually barren of our institutions, would become true learning centers, linked to information resources throughout the world. Teachers, the nation’s only professionals who are routinely deprived of telephones at their workplaces, would be in close contact with both colleagues and vast amounts of data, enabling them to grow intellectually, and in doing so, model life-long learning for their students. And the students, now condemned to serving time in schools that all too often resemble prisons, would have access to a substantial portion of the world’s potential mentors and potential friends.
Predictor: Leslie, Jacques
Prediction, in context:In a 1993 article in Wired magazine, Jacques Leslie looks at the potential of the Internet in education. He writes:”Consider the possibilities [the proper introduction of the Internet in schools would] open up. Schools, now among the most intellectually barren of our institutions, would become true learning centers, linked to information resources throughout the world. Teachers, the nation’s only professionals who are routinely deprived of telephones at their workplaces, would be in close contact with both colleagues and vast amounts of data, enabling them to grow intellectually, and in doing so, model life-long learning for their students. And the students, now condemned to serving time in schools that all too often resemble prisons, would have access to a substantial portion of the world’s potential mentors and potential friends. In the end, the machines themselves would recede from notice, taken for granted, while the links they forge deepen and multiply. “
Biography:Jacques Leslie was a journalist who wrote about technology in the 1990s. (Author/Editor/Journalist.)
Date of prediction: November 1, 1993
Topic of prediction: Getting, Sharing Information
Subtopic: E-learning
Name of publication: Wired
Title, headline, chapter name: Kids Connecting: You’ve Heard it Before, But This Time It’s True: Online Technology Can Reform Our Schools
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/1.05/kids.connecting_pr.html
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Lusk, James T.