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Ten Trends: Educating Children for Tomorrow’s World

It’s dated, but Gary Marx’s 2002 Ten Trends: Educating Children for Tomorrow’s World still serves as a useful shorthand reference for anticipating near term social evolution teachers will likely address. I especially appreciate his topic sentence:

The status quo is a ticket to obsolescence.

Yet, I take issue with his inference that these forecasted trends hold some kind of dominance over schooling. In a way, they’re based in extrapolations from political theories.

For example, Marx suggests that classrooms should rely more on collaboration (a pedagogical adaptation of communitarian theories).

With due respect, collaboration counters a primary fact: individuals learn, not “groups” or other social fictions we call aggregates.

I suspect that collaboration stiffles more individual student learning than it enhances. That would be an interesting hypothesis to test; probably someone has.

Anyway, Gary’s trends serve as useful references for case statements to use mobile PCs such as Tablets, UMPCs, MIDs in classrooms.

Robert Heiny
Robert Heinyhttp://www.robertheiny.com
Robert W. Heiny, Ph.D. is a retired professor, social scientist, and business partner with previous academic appointments as a public school classroom teacher, senior faculty, or senior research member, and administrator. Appointments included at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Peabody College and the Kennedy Center now of Vanderbilt University; and Brandeis University. Dr. Heiny also served as Director of the Montana Center on Disabilities. His peer reviewed contributions to education include publication in The Encyclopedia of Education (1971), and in professional journals and conferences. He served s an expert reviewer of proposals to USOE, and on a team that wrote plans for 12 state-wide and multistate special education and preschools programs. He currently writes user guides for educators and learners as well as columns for TuxReports.com.

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