[In the pre-college years of school,] opportunities for original work using networked telescopes, seismographs, scanning microscopes, and supercomputers will be commonplace. Students will contribute to and analyze global environmental datasets, polls, and other network science projects. Learners will collect their best work and evidence for skill mastery into portfolios that will be available on the network to teams of evaluators. These external evaluations will change the relation between students and their teachers, who increasingly will be seen as allies and guides. These evaluated portfolios will become the primary evidence used in college admissions and job applications.
Predictor: Tinker, Bob
Prediction, in context:In 1995, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Educational Technology commissioned a series of white papers on various issues related to networking technologies. The department convened the authors for a workshop in November 1995 to discuss the implications. The following statement is taken from one of the white papers, “The Whole World in Their Hands,” by Bob Tinker, the president of Concord Consortium, he has a Ph.D. in physics from MIT and a reputation as a pioneer in constructivist uses of educational technology. Tinker writes:”[In the pre-college years of school,] opportunities for original work using networked telescopes, seismographs, scanning microscopes, and supercomputers will be commonplace. Students will contribute to and analyze global environmental datasets, polls, and other network science projects. Learners will collect their best work and evidence for skill mastery into portfolios that will be available on the network to teams of evaluators. These external evaluations will change the relation between students and their teachers, who increasingly will be seen as allies and guides. These evaluated portfolios will become the primary evidence used in college admissions and job applications.”
Date of prediction: January 1, 1995
Topic of prediction: Getting, Sharing Information
Subtopic: E-learning
Name of publication: The Future of Networking Technologies for Learning
Title, headline, chapter name: The Whole World in Their Hands
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://www.ed.gov/Technology/Futures/
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Anderson, Janna Quitney