The prediction, in brief:

[One benefit of a community BBS] would be that the community and parents could dial in for school-related information. Student-to-student, student-to-librarian, parent-to-teacher, or student-to-teacher communications would be available from the home via local phone calls. A loaner laptop program could provide initial home-access experiences for local citizens. The community outreach potential for schools has many advantages, such as involving community expertise in making K-12 education immediately relevant to real-world community needs.

Predictor: Odasz, Frank

Prediction, in context:

The 1995 book “Public Access to the Internet,” edited by Brian Kahin and James Keller carries the chapter, “Issues in the Development of Community Cooperative Networks” by Frank Odasz, the director of Big Sky Telegraph, Western Montana College of the University of Montana. He writes:”[One benefit of a community BBS] would be that the community and parents could dial in for school-related information. Student-to-student, student-to-librarian, parent-to-teacher, or student-to-teacher communications would be available from the home via local phone calls. A loaner laptop program could provide initial home-access experiences for local citizens. The community outreach potential for schools has many advantages, such as involving community expertise in making K-12 education immediately relevant to real-world community needs.”

Biography:

Frank Odasz was an assistant professor of computing education at the University of Colorado and the director of Big Sky Telegraph, a popular community network of the time. He was widely known as a speaker on community networking and educational technologies. (Technology Developer/Administrator.)

Date of prediction: January 1, 1995

Topic of prediction: Information Infrastructure

Subtopic: General

Name of publication: Public Access to the Internet (book)

Title, headline, chapter name: Issues in the Development of Community Cooperative Networks

Quote Type: Direct quote

Page number or URL of document at time of study:
Page 127

This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Guarino, Jennifer Anne