1. The Future of Education Todd Scholl Coordinator of Communications & Technology

2. Disclaimer Some of the information you will hear during this presentation is speculative. The information presented was taken from others including: Ray Kurzweil, Sir Ken Robinson, Thomas Frey and others.

3. what we can learn from the railroad industry

4. When other forms of transportation evolved, instead of embracing these trends and growing with them, the railroads resisted. Had the railroad companies recognized that they were actually in the transportation business, they could have integrated highways, trucks, autos and fueling stations into their already powerful business.

5. What caused the demise of the once-powerful railroads? They were product-oriented, not customer-oriented. They wanted to dictate what the customer needed, not listen to what the customer wanted.

6. How can educators learn from the demise of railroad companies? Discuss this with a neighbor.

7. “Everyone takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world.” - Arthur Schopenhauer

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13. To understand the future we must look at the past. 1 2 4 8 16 32 A C E G I K

14. So predicting the future requires us to look at patterns.

16. “Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equipped with 18,000 vacuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers of the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps weigh 1.5 tons.” - popular mechanic, 1949

17. "When I was a student at MIT, we all shared one computer and it took up a whole building. The computer in your cell phone today is a million times cheaper and a thousand times more powerful. What now fits in your pocket 25 years from now will fit into a blood cell and will again be millions of times more cost effective." - Ray Kurzweil

19. what would it mean for a computer to have the same power as the human brain? Discuss this with a neighbor.

21. Support for Kurzweil’s Theory

24. Implications for the near future of education

25. Learning > Teaching

26. individualization > Standardization

28. Decentralization of schools Open Education

30. MIT Open Courseware Khan Academy

31. What impact will open courseware have on schools as we know them? Discuss this with a neighbor.

32. Teachers becoming guides, coaches & mentors

33. Further down the line... Man and machine will merge. This means we will have the ability to download knowledge and skills.

36. Once we are able to download all knowledge and many skills to the non-biological portions of our brains, what will happen to schools? Discuss this with a neighbor.

37. Computer-Assisted Instruction will become fully immersive. Lifelike androids and virtual environments will replace “real” teachers and “real” classrooms.

42. If computers will soon be vastly smarter than humans, what will that mean for the future of human teachers? Discuss this with a neighbor.

43. “First we build the tools, then they build us.” - Marshall McLuhan

45. For Further Study www.futureofeducation.com www.davinciinstitute.com/speakers/futuris t-speaker-thomas-frey www.futureofeducation.com www.davinciinstitute.com/speakers/futuris t-speaker-thomas-frey

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