With the ability to use technology to access information, guide learning activities, assess progress, and provide both individualized learning and assessment we may be able to provide personalized learning for every person.
Predictor: Lyell, Ed
Prediction, in context:In a speech he delivered at the summer training program for New York State Deans of Education at Bank Street College in 1994, Ed Lyell outlines a new educational plan in which the use of the Internet is key. He calls his concept the “Just-In-Time Learning System” and offers it as a plan for an individualized curriculum and more cost-effective education. Students would use Internet-based resources that are individualized for each student’s particular learning needs. He says:”Step one is to query the learner as to what they want to learn. Then create a ‘learning nugget,’ which is our term for a sequence of experiences which allows the learner to learn whatever they want to learn, at their own pace, and focused on the methods and techniques best for that learner. A learner will work with a teacher/coach. That human will represent a high-touch, caring, personalized tutor formerly only available to the wealthy, who have had this type of individualized learning for centuries. With the ability to use technology to access information, guide learning activities, assess progress, and provide both individualized learning and assessment we may be able to provide personalized learning for every person. The new teacher will be a coach or learning facilitator, not a subject expert. Subject expertise will be delivered through telecommunications or from CD-ROMs and other information sources. The teacher/coach will learn subject competencies alongside the learner.”
Biography:Ed Lyell was an educator and education administrator who foresaw uses for the Internet in schools and became a popular public speaker on the topic. (Futurist/Consultant.)
Date of prediction: June 11, 1994
Topic of prediction: Getting, Sharing Information
Subtopic: E-learning
Name of publication: Technology in Context
Title, headline, chapter name: Creating the Just-in-Time Learning System: Merging High Tech with High Touch
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://faculty.adams.edu/~ehlyell/Articles/BANKSTre.ART.htm
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: McAlister, Rory