We will pay children to teach other children, adults to teach adults, and children to teach adults as well. A system of royalties will be created on information-server networks, like America Online, Prodigy, etc. As material is used, the provider earns money, and as they consume other’s ideas they pay out. An electronic economic marketplace for ideas and knowledge will be created. Schools may well begin this, or perhaps be replaced by it.
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. He says:”Our mission is to create a learning environment in which each student, guided and helped by his or her teacher, supported by technology, learns a subject using whatever resources are available – teachers, other student, parents, computers, multimedia, texts, video – well enough to then convey their knowledge to other learners. Learning by doing, demonstrating, teaching, and increasing the stock of available information and learning materials for learners of all ages; making learning meaningful because each student is actively contributing to their own education and to the education of others. In this system we will pay children to teach other children, adults to teach adults, and children to teach adults as well. A system of royalties will be created on information-server networks, like America Online, Prodigy, etc. As material is used, the provider earns money, and as they consume other’s ideas they pay out. An electronic economic marketplace for ideas and knowledge will be created. Schools may well begin this, or perhaps be replaced by it.”
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