Parents in some failing districts will demand wholesale in-school netcourses, which will shift the primary functions of the staff in these schools to providing the technology, advising, proctoring, and coaching sports. In other cases, parents will demand and get the average per-student expenditure as chits that they will use outside the existing public school structure for qualified netcourses and net schools.
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:”Parents in some failing districts will demand wholesale in-school netcourses, which will shift the primary functions of the staff in these schools to providing the technology, advising, proctoring, and coaching sports. In other cases, parents will demand and get the average per-student expenditure as chits that they will use outside the existing public school structure for qualified netcourses and net schools.”
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