This vast potential to gather further information on one’s own will change the nature of education itself. “Teachers will go from ‘the sage on the stage’ to ‘the guide at your side.'”
Predictor: Gifford, Warren
Prediction, in context:In a 1993 article for U.S. News & World Report, William F. Allman quotes Warren Gifford of Bellcore:”No one knows what the ultimate impact of this information revolution will be … it is likley to produce fundamental – perhaps wrenching – changes in our social fabric. Even in rudimentary form, the existing stretches of information superhighway are beginning to redefine the normal sense of community, the pace of intellectual life and, some say, the nature of knowledge itself … This vast potential to gather further information on one’s own will change the nature of education itself, suggests Warren Gifford, executive director of multimedia research at Bellcore, the research arm of the Baby Bells. ‘Teachers will go from ‘the sage on the stage’ to ‘the guide at your side.'”
Date of prediction: January 1, 1993
Topic of prediction: Getting, Sharing Information
Subtopic: E-learning
Name of publication: U.S. News & World Report
Title, headline, chapter name: Pioneering the Electronic Frontier: For Many People, the Information Revolution is Already Here
Quote Type: Partial quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://web6.infotrac.galegroup.com/itw/infomark/36/20/36029163w6/purl=rc1_EAIM_0_A14603510&dyn=10!xrn_1_0_A14603510?sw_aep=ncliveec
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Garrison, Betty