Competitive pressures coming from the network will improve many schools. These schools will use their natural advantage of history and locality, draw on the excellent network resources, and emerge stronger. Some ambitious public and private schools will even extend their borders, accepting tuition-paying students from anywhere, with preference given to create multicultural virtual groups. These schools may find the added income actually reduces property taxes, to the delight of their towns.
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:”Competitive pressures coming from the network will improve many schools. These schools will use their natural advantage of history and locality, draw on the excellent network resources, and emerge stronger. Some ambitious public and private schools will even extend their borders, accepting tuition-paying students from anywhere, with preference given to create multicultural virtual groups. These schools may find the added income actually reduces property taxes, to the delight of their towns.”
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