2020 Vision

Accelerated rate of technological develpment

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Integration of mobile computing purchased by students and co-opted by schools.

Textbooks replaced by wikis

Content in neutral format accessible by students on mobile devices

Increased student and parent accountability

Classrooms with kiosks to dispense mobile devices

Less teachers with Luddite tendencies

Increase in experiential learning with web 2.0 tools used for research, reflection and collaboration

Online Office Suites

Blogging and Microblogging

Wikis

Mobile Computing, Kindle for reading print books, RSS, Cell Phones for everything!, iPhone does all of these, even with a Kindle app., GPS for coordinate driven activities, Web Browsing for mobile research, SMS for mobile text collaboration, Voice Recording for interviews

RSS

Urban ducational renaissance driven by marrying mobile technology and entrepreneurship.

Urban schools first to drop traditional learning model, stops paying for textbooks and starts plowing in wireless technology and mobile labs with business/career emphasis

Secondary schools become more like colleges eliminating all day schedules.

Upperclassman on honors track first given option to take college style course load that combines independent study with collaborating in class with teacher using web 2.0 apps.