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The future of education will be grand, but there probably won't be rows of students sitting at desks rote memorizing fact and submitting to the authority of a teacher with an apple on their desk (an organic one). It's time for the education community to grow up and get moving into the future. Indeed, it appears to me that we will have a blurred reality scenario of teaching in the future, an electronic immersion of sorts. Okay so, let's talk, because that future of education will change everything.
Okay so, one example I like to use is George Washington crossing the Delaware, with all of the walls of the classroom becoming giant screens. The kids sit in the middle of the classroom with their desks shaped like a couple of small boats, and they listen to George Washington talk to his men during the crossing. In this case they are in full immersion, and they remember those words spoken, because it will be as if they were there. In a way they are, in augmented reality that is, as they are completely immersed in the activity.
Now then, this has incredible benefits for human memory, because when reading it's hard to retain all the information, when learning things visually it's a lot easier, and when you are immersed, not only do you learn faster, you remember better, much better than any other way of informational input.
Perhaps there's only one problem with this. It's that we keep teaching a false history, and we are continually indoctrinating our next generation. We aren't teaching them to think. That's not to say the teacher in the classroom couldn't after engaging in this scene which I described above have a discussion with the students about where they were going, and what they were about to do, and how they would become a part of history.
However, the ability to indoctrinate our children better, is not necessarily the best for our future. They say that those who don't learn their history are doomed to repeat, but I would submit to you that those who learn their history incorrectly are guaranteed to repeat it or make worse mistakes with the future of humanity. The future of education will have incredible intellectual opportunities, and immersion is obviously the fastest way to learn, but until we get over this challenge of ours of continual indoctrination, maybe we shouldn't bring about this new technology, or do it very wisely so it isn't misused.
You see, many of us who are intellectual thinkers have to relearn, and un-indoctrinate ourselves after our schooling. That can take years. Indeed, rather than calling this criticism of our past periods' education, let me call it a warning as we march into the future. It's not that I am against these new technologies, actually I love them in fact - it's just that I want them to be used properly, and for the right reasons. Indeed I hope you will please consider all this and think on it.
Lance Winslow has launched a new provocative series of eBooks on the Future of Education. Lance Winslow is a retired Founder of a Nationwide Franchise Chain, and now runs the Online Think Tank; http://www.worldthinktank.net/
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