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HistoryFuture School Visions
Click on these links to read what others have predicted for schools of the future. ......... http://www.buildingfutures.org.uk/pdfs/pdffile_32.pdf 21ST CENTURY SCHOOLS: LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS OF THE FUTURE Whilst the education sector (and the built infrastructure that houses it) is in the process of gradual change, it is widely accepted that the built environment contributes to teaching and learning outcomes. In this sense, it is important that future learning environments support emerging approaches to teaching and learning, and avoid ‘designing in’ obsolescence. Drawn from work specially commissioned from Ultralab, 21st Century Schools seeks to provoke debate about the future of school provision, using provocative scenarios to illustrate issues. It explores the changes occurring within education for the 11-18 age range, and the impact that these may have on the built environment, including existing school buildings within the community as well as the design of new learning environments. .......... http://www.ed.gov/Technology/Futures/linda.html The Future of Networking Technologies for Learning: White Papers collected by Linda Roberts, Director, Office of Educational Technology U.S. Department of Education (lroberts@ed.gov) ........... http://www.pfhe.org/ The Project on the Future of Higher Education is a focused initiative that brings together leaders in American higher education to answer the question: Given what we know and likely future social, technological and economic realities, if we were creating a college or university today, what would it look like? ........... http://www.asla.org/nonmembers/lamarticle/distlrngfuture.htm Distance Learning: Back to the Future By Patrick A. Miller, FASLA The American Society of Landscape Architects .............. THE FUTURE OF HIGHER (LIFELONG) EDUCATION:A Vision for a Century Ahead, Planning For All Worldwide, a Holistic View By Parker Rossman http://ecolecon.missouri.edu/globalresearch/index.htmlProfessional and Research Groups
This set of links connects you with organizations whose members are exploring the intersection of learning and electronic technologies. http://www.learningeconomics.org/ Learning Economics is the study of the strategic value of learning, both informal and formal, and its economic impact on an organization or corporation. Learning from our perspective is the continuous development or acquisition of a skill, concept or knowledge in a specific targeted domain or endeavor. We focus on development of learning valuation frameworks and the economic contribution of learning to the business value creation process including metrics. ......... http://www.learningcircuits.org/2004/feb2004/metcalf.htm Learning Circuits, American Society for Training and Development (ASDT) Source for E-Learning ......... http://www.aera.net The American Educational Research Association… Below are links to specific Special Interst Groups related to future schools. ........ http://ide.ed.psu.edu/sigatlest/index.html Special Interest Groups (SIGs) for Advanced Technologies for Learning (ATL) and Education in Science and Technology (EST) The purpose of our group is first,- to encourage the design of new technologies that structure educational environments and transform educational practice, and
- second, to promote informed strategies for the large-scale integration of technology in education.
- Advise the tidal wave of schools joining the Internet how to use cyberspace to advance educational goals.
- Develop standards for educational components so that they can be inter-operable, rather than each application being built from the ground up.
- Explore the potential of immersive virtual reality environments for education.
- Establish distant collaborations between schools and the workplace using new communication technologies.
- promote good practice in the use of learning technology in education and industry;
- represent the members in areas of policy;
- facilitate collaboration between practitioners, researchers, and policy makers.
Innovations for Children's Classrooms
These links describe systems that extend traditional classrooms but do not address the underlying school administrative process. ......... http://www.atlascommunities.org/ ATLAS Communities is a comprehensive school improvement initiative designed to help create high performing schools that serve all students well. ............ http://www.jucs.org/jucs_2_10/the_classroom_as_one Abstract:Firstly, we consider important concepts to be taken into account when thinking about the classroom organisation and the design of learning environments. The concept of classroom integrates different facets including at first interaction between children and a system of available knowledge carried out either by human beings or multi-media contents. A very important facet is that the classroom is also a context for social interaction. Knowledge acquisition by human beings makes sense only if we take into account the need for socialisation of knowledge and a process that allows the sharing of it. We then consider recent results in cognitive sciences especially in the study of learning theories and focus on why and how this is to be considered when designing and implementing educational technologies. We need to consider user-centered approaches and human factors in the classroom. We then describe the major characteristics of the classroom for future. The model we propose for the classroom is to be splitted in two parts : the kernel (as a set of real places where persons can meet physicaly) and the cloud (as a set of real or virtual places) reachable from the kernel via networks. The kernel plays a role of a fix point very useful for people having roots. The balance between activities taking place in the kernel and the cloud is then analysed. This leads us to discuss some basic principles underlying the global organisation. This kind of approach helps us to specify more precisely different points : teachers' roles and constraints on teachers' education. The need for mediatised resources meeting the needs in such schools leads us to propositions for methodologies to design educational resources.Links to
network-based learning environment organizer software
Like the group above, these products address techniques for delivering educational content but do not treat school infrastructure. ......... http://www.isi.edu/isd/ADE/ade-body.html Advanced Distance Education (ADE) he Advanced Distance Education project is developing tools for the creation of adaptive, Web-based courseware incorporating artificial intelligence. ADE is a project of the team at the Center for Advanced Research in Technology for Education (CARTE) at USC / ISI. ......... http://www.ihmc.us/users/acanas/Publications/Leo-Iasted/Leo%20Iasted%20Conf.htm Abstract: This work describes a tool that can be used to build graphical organizers to present asynchronous, distributed learning courses. The organizer tool is integrated into a software suite entitled “CMapTools” that utilizes a unique client-server architecture. The Organizer helps the instructional designer organize a learning environment using a graphical representation of topics, their sequences, and additional explanatory information on their relationships. The organizer presents essential dependency relationships among topics in a course, points the student to online instructional content pertinent to the topic, and downloads the lesson content for the student. The system tracks student progress through the learning environment. This work describes the tool’s basic functionality, look and feel, and presents an example of a learning environment organizer created with the tool.Connect to
