The Future of Education; Reaction to 2020 Forecast

      2020 Forecast for the Future of Education is an interesting initiative to incorporate education into a whole community endeavor where learning takes place at any time and any place.  It makes learning student centered and technology driven so that students can reach outside the classroom and standard ways of teaching to learn out in the community and solve real-world problems.  As a teacher in 2020, I think that I will work as a coworker of organizations and companies in the community, which will allow my students access to real-world problems and solving them.  We will use the community and their neighborhoods as our classrooms and make solving real-world problems games and incorporating strategies to do so.  It will involve less of a transfer of information from teacher to student and more involve students seeking knowledge through a variety of avenues.  Aside from getting out into the community, learning will be expanded worldwide by using resources of the World Wide Web and the technologies that correspond with it. 

  

      I think that some of the steps I need to take to engage learners more would be to incorporate more technologies and media sources into my classroom to expand learning outside the classroom. I also think I need to seek out people in the community to work alongside in order to create learning experiences for students. At first that might involve getting professionals and career people into the classroom to provide a connection between the classroom and the real world. Later that might involve learning on site with such professionals to solve real-world problems and address current issues to make the community a better place to live.