Active construction of knowledge, participation in learning collaboratives, and building on the learners’ interests and experiences outside of school are major threads in educational reform … As television, video games, telephones, newspapers, libraries, and computer networks begin to be connected and woven together, they will be seen and experienced as essentially a “virtual world” in which we spend much of our time living, learning, working, and playing. The Internet provides a model for the future information infrastructure in which children do participate in the construction of simulated worlds and learn to make connections between the physical world and simulated worlds.
Predictor: Hunter, Beverly
Prediction, in context:The 1995 book “Public Access to the Internet,” edited by Brian Kahin and James Keller carries the chapter, “Learning and Teaching on the Internet: Contributing to Educational Reform” by Beverly Hunter, an educational strategist in the Educational Technologies Department of the technology firm Bolt, Beranek & Newman. She was previously the program director for Applications of Advanced Technologies in Science Education at the National Science Foundation. She writes:”Active construction of knowledge, participation in learning collaboratives, and building on the learners’ interests and experiences outside of school are major threads in educational reform … As television, video games, telephones, newspapers, libraries, and computer networks begin to be connected and woven together, they will be seen and experienced as essentially a ‘virtual world’ in which we spend much of our time living, learning, working, and playing. The Internet provides a model for the future information infrastructure in which children do participate in the construction of simulated worlds and learn to make connections between the physical world and simulated worlds.”
Date of prediction: January 1, 1995
Topic of prediction: Getting, Sharing Information
Subtopic: E-learning
Name of publication: Public Access to the Internet (book)
Title, headline, chapter name: Learning and Teaching on the Internet: Contributing to Educational Reform
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
Page 96
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Guarino, Jennifer Anne