There is a great danger than enormous efforts now put into educational “reforms” will turn out to be irrelevant to the circumstances of learning and working in a networked, knowledge-creative society. Current investments in reformed curriculum frameworks, standards, assessments, teacher in-service programs, and the like should take advantage of networking to reduce industrial-age constraints; at the same time, they can contribute vitally to the evolving information infrastructure, to the learning benefit of everyone.
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:”There is a great danger than enormous efforts now put into educational ‘reforms’ will turn out to be irrelevant to the circumstances of learning and working in a networked, knowledge-creative society. Current investments in reformed curriculum frameworks, standards, assessments, teacher in-service programs, and the like should take advantage of networking to reduce industrial-age constraints; at the same time, they can contribute vitally to the evolving information infrastructure, to the learning benefit of everyone.”
Date of prediction: January 1, 1995
Topic of prediction: Getting, Sharing Information
Subtopic: General
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 111
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