Responsibility for teaching and mentoring must be shared more widely than in the past. Classroom teachers can not be expected to have expertise in all the areas of knowledge their students are encountering. The Internet provides new opportunities for teaching by people who primary work is not formally teaching, but who have expertise in industry and other public sectors. Incentives to perform these part-time and out-of-school teaching and mentoring roles need to be devised. Communities and school districts making an investment in new curricula or technology should not attempt to overlay such innovations on outmoded methods of operation of school; rather they should look broadly for new opportunities to engage people in nontraditional roles.
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:”Responsibility for teaching and mentoring must be shared more widely than in the past. Classroom teachers can not be expected to have expertise in all the areas of knowledge their students are encountering. The Internet provides new opportunities for teaching by people who primary work is not formally teaching, but who have expertise in industry and other public sectors. Incentives to perform these part-time and out-of-school teaching and mentoring roles need to be devised. Communities and school districts making an investment in new curricula or technology should not attempt to overlay such innovations on outmoded methods of operation of school; rather they should look broadly for new opportunities to engage people in nontraditional roles.”
Date of prediction: January 1, 1995
Topic of prediction: Getting, Sharing Information
Subtopic: Medical/Professional
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 110
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