Future Schools : Education Next - 0 views
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Such schools combine “face-to-face” education in a specific place (what used to be called “school”) with online instruction.
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Rocketship is building a model in which kids learn much of their basic skills via adaptive technology like the DreamBox software, leaving classroom teachers free to focus on critical-thinking instruction and extra help where kids are struggling. Likewise, teachers will be able to “prescribe” online attention to specific skills.
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Rocketship and the other school models we describe here offer a vision for what deeply integrated technology can mean for children’s education, for the way schools are structured, and for the promise of greater efficiency amid a lengthy economic downturn
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Rocketship and other schools of the future will prove more structre, greater efficiency, and enhanced engagement for student learning. They will also require less money to be paid to st aff and allow teachers more time to plan critical thinking activities.
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What teaching may look like in the future--similar to some of what we are seeing today