Demoting reading from its privileged position in the school curriculum is only one of many consequences of Knowledge Machines … What follows from imagining a Knowledge Machine is a certainty that school will either change very radically or simply collapse. It is predictable that the education establishment cannot see farther than using new technologies to do what it has always done in the past, teach the same curriculum … The possibility of freely exploring worlds of knowledge calls into question the very idea of an administered curriculum.
Predictor: Papert, Seymour
Prediction, in context:In a 1993 article he wrote for Wired magazine, Seymour Papert remarks:”Demoting reading from its privileged position in the school curriculum is only one of many consequences of Knowledge Machines … What follows from imagining a Knowledge Machine is a certainty that school will either change very radically or simply collapse. It is predictable that the education establishment cannot see farther than using new technologies to do what it has always done in the past, teach the same curriculum … The possibility of freely exploring worlds of knowledge calls into question the very idea of an administered curriculum.”
Biography:Seymour Papert, a mathematician, was one of the early pioneers of Artificial Intelligence. He is internationally recognized as the seminal thinker about ways in which computers can change learning. He wrote “The Children’s Machine: Rethinking School in the Age of the Computer” (1992) and “The Connected Family: Bridging the Digital Generation Gap” (1996). (Pioneer/Originator.)
Date of prediction: January 1, 1993
Topic of prediction: Getting, Sharing Information
Subtopic: E-learning
Name of publication: Wired
Title, headline, chapter name: Obsolete Skill Set: The 3 R’s – Literacy and Letteracy in the Media Ages
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://www.papert.org/articles/ObsoleteSkillSet.html
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