Introduction
Advances in both cognitive science and information technology have the potential to transform education and training in ways previously unimaginable.To lay the groundwork for Federal leadership in learning technology innovation, in September 2002, the Commerce Department published Visions 2020: Transforming Education and Training through Advanced Technologies. For Visions 2020, a number of distinguished individuals and teams from a wide range of technology and education fields were asked to look out into the future, and describe what technology-enabled learning experiences could be like. They responded with a rich collection of visions, some of which are excerpted in this report. Visions 2020 identified potential technologies, their application for learning, and how the learning environment would need to change to take full advantage of them. With a future vision in hand, the Commerce Department convened a Summit on the Use of Advanced Technologies in Education and Training. At the Summit, stakeholder groups identified ways to encourage technology-enabled transformation in U.S. education and training. The U.S. Departments of Commerce and Education (who co-chair the NSTC Working Group) and Net Day formed partnership aimed at analyzing K-12 student views about technology for learning. These views are analyzed in this second report, Visions 2020.2: Student Views on Transforming Education and Training Through Advanced Technologies. In October-November 2004, NetDay sponsored its “Speak-Up Day for Students” which offered online questionnaires, which asked K-12 students across the country about their use of technology.
Collapse of the information float
Not only is information growing quickly, the time lag between discovery and application — the information “float” — is rapidly shrinking. For example, it took many hundreds of years for the steam engine to move from being a curiosity to a commercial product. In contrast, recent discoveries in science and engineering show up in products virtually overnight.
Education must focus on new competencies
Changes of this magnitude require a complete rethinking of education, both in terms of the curriculum, and in the development of pedagogies that insure that every student acquires the high level of skills needed to thrive in the dynamic world of the 21st century. In addition to the basic skills of literacy and numeracy, every learner must also master the “three C’s:” Communication, Collaboration, and Creative Problem Solving. Beyond these are the equally important skills of knowing how to use numbers and data in real-world tasks, the ability to locate and process information relevant to the task at hand, technological fluency, and, most of all, the skills and attitudes needed to be a lifelong learner.
Technological fluency is a basic skill
Technological fluency is a step beyond technological literacy. To be fluent in technology use means that we can sit down at a computer and use it as easily as we can pick up and read a book in our native language. Of the challenges facing education today, preparing students to be fluent in the use of computational and communication technologies is one of our greatest.
Education must prepare students for jobs that have yet to be invented
If our challenge could be limited to preparing people for the kinds of jobs available today, we would still have a lot of work to do. Unfortunately, the challenge is even greater. Many of the jobs that will be available at the turn of the century have yet to be invented.
If you doubt this, consider the following. One of the job categories in great demand today is that of Webmaster — a person who designs, creates, and maintains sites on the World Wide Web. This job did not exist ten years ago. In fact, it did not even exist five years ago! This means that the people who are working in this new field have acquired their skills largely on their own.
ESSENTIAL STUDENT LEARNINGS FOR 2020
•Use the technology to involve the student and parent in assessment.
•Give every student a lifelong e-portfolio.
•Assess team work, collaboration and creativity using the technology, e.g. through games, simulations etc.
Technology will enable us to abandon
•The role of teacher as knowledge transmitter and student as the receiver.
•The “top down”, one-off model of initial and continued teacher training.
•Textbooks.
•Traditional methods of assessment of content in one-time, big exam testing period.
•Fixed times in classrooms
•The traditional notions of school space and school time
Innovations of time
•Flexible working (staff & pupil)
•Learning should be possible all day every day
•Self-controlled time management
•True individualised learning programmes
•Clever use of ICT
•Move away from prescribed ages to start and finish schooling
Technology
Computer-based training represents a period of single-user tools in which the computer made its entrance in education and was brought into use for mathematics, computer-aided design, simulation programs, infinite calculation methods, writing, and presentation skills. Online learning represents multi-user tools, such as communication tools,the World Wide Web (WWW), streaming video and a virtual learning environment for online courses. Lecture notes were digitized and put online, as were video snaps together with references to publications that could be reached via hyperlinks. Underlying tools for two-way communication are used to support this time- and place-independent way of learning. Learning on demand represents the next generation web-based virtual learning environment where learning material, which is broken up into specified learning objects, is initially distributed online for regular educational tracks. The underlying systems will be compound systems with merged technologies and features gathered from several compound learning systems.
Four Changes
Many school managers and school boards do currently recognize the need for fundamental changes in schools and education systems at large. Some of them have already started revolutionary experimental schools. First results from these schools show that students love the new approaches that have been adopted and that learning results are satisfying. In the Netherlands, about six schools have started recently to work along entirely new lines
Future Schools
• 4 hours periods
• Interdisciplinary themes
• Areas for 90 to 120 students
• Continuing individual learning Paths
ENVISIONING THE NEW TECHNOLOGIES FOR 2020
The Learner
•The technology will enable a “new 2020 student” – responsible, independent, exciting.
•We need to identify and agree what we want learners to look like first, then use the technology to make it happen.
“Don’t use technology for technology sake; it must be seamlessly integrated into the curriculum so that it is second nature to the teachers and students”
School Design
Schools as extended learning centres.
•On-line tutoring/mentoring available 24/7.
•Change time structures to allow for immersion in learning and real research.
•Use technology and class design to facilitate individual student progress, giving immediate access to ICT when appropriate.
Intelligent Tutor/Helper
No concept drew greater interest from the student responders than some sort of an intelligent tutor/helper. Many students desired such a tutor or helper for use in school and at home.
The Oracle: Many students expressed interest in an “answer machine,” through which a student could pose a specific question and the machine would respond with an answer. Similarly, some students described a sort of knowledge utility. Through a computer or an Internet web site, students could access all of the world’s knowledge from any location.
Make It A Game
•A way kids could have fun doing their homework. Someone could invent videogame homework.
•Video games that reenact historic events or scientific experiments. People love video games, and what better way to learn than through telling the story, while being able to reenact it.
Take Me There
•Things like virtual reality careers we could do. We would be able to work in an environment in which we would have to work in the future without actually being there, but still be able to explore and see what it would be like.
•3-D simulators to reenact historic events.
•Computer that has a virtual tour on it so, when looking up a country, you can go onto the computer and get a tour of it.
On-Line Classes
•Computer with a built in school system so you can learn at home without going to school.
•Virtual class room, where kids can stay at home and learn. The teacher could be on the computer or on a T.V. screen with a video camera or a web cam. This way, no one would have to miss a day of school if they were sick.
Working Digitally
•IM on school computers and, if a student can’t get up to ask a question or talk, you can just IM someone!
•Website with different subjects and teachers there to teach students different subjects. That way, we can go to school anytime we want and we wouldn’t have to wake up so early in the morning to catch the bus.
•Before the marking period closes, students can see their grades online to see what work and assignments they’re missing or if they failed on an assignment they can improve it.
A Different Kind of Teacher
•Computer that is like a personal teacher that has a lot of patience and that can speak.
•Teacher for every student, but not real teachers. They should be holograms and they should know everything possible
•Robotic teachers so we could learn more stuff and not get yelled at as often.
A Different Kind of Book
•Digital books that read the lesson to you, and teach you specific things. The thing would be voice-sensitive so you could read, and it would correct your reading.
•Dictionary that talks. So when kids find a word they can’t pronounce, they listen to the dictionary pronounce it for them.
Attributes of the Learning Process
•Computers that can produce realistic images of any subject. For example, the operation of machines or human organs.
•3-D simulations in classes such as science because often materials needed are not safe or available.
A Computer for Every Student
•Laptop that didn’t sell for much so that every student could have one on their desk.
•We already have laptops, but to see every student with an updated laptop to use with software that will aid them in their schoolwork will be nice. This could lessen the strain on students because the computers can be used to ask commonly asked questions.
•Laptop computers should be given as a school supply to every student in the future.
The Need for Speed
•Faster modems would help the kids in the future. It would make things a lot easier for them, and they wouldn’t have to worry about not getting stuff done because of the time it takes for everything to load.
•We need new, faster computers.
Want It Wireless
•Wireless Internet everywhere: in the park, at home, hospitals, and everywhere else. That way there will be wireless, trouble-free Internet wherever you go. That will give the child a chance to learn wherever he is.
Make It Safe and Easy to Use
•Easier version of the Internet for the younger people.
•Something should be invented that filters out incorrect information on any website. It is very misleading and confusing to find different facts on different websites, so it would be very helpful if there were a way to filter out wrong information.
24-7 Access:
•Access your school’s network from online at your own home.
•Access to the school websites and information from our houses, because it would help a lot with school projects and homework.
Conclusion
During 2020,Every student would use a small, handheld wireless computer that is voice activated. The computer would offer high-speed access to a kid-friendly Internet, populated with websites that are safe, designed specifically for use by students, with no pop-up ads. Using this device, students would complete most of their in-school, college work and homework, as well as take online classes both at school and at home. Students would use the small computer to play mathematics-learning games and read interactive e-textbooks. In completing their schoolwork, students would work closely and routinely with an intelligent digital tutor, and tap a knowledge utility to obtain factual answers to questions they pose. In their history studies, students could participate in 3-D virtual reality-based historic reenactments.
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Help answer the question about technology
What technology was invented in the 21st century?I need to know the name of the inventor and the invention and the date/year that it was created. It has to be technology.
If you know who created the ipod, or blueray, or anything tech. Please let me know!
Thanks!
Oh, come on, it's just GOTTA be the transporter.
Technology is not bad.
It's how we use it and whether we consider all the consequences before we put it in place. We have not done that in the past. We can't do things that way anymore.
Technology is what we will use to solve the problems that our misuse of it has brought about.
At the same time, we have to realize that sometimes simple technology is the answer. For example, here's a company doing something to save fuel for ocean freighters. It is really low tech, and it works.
http://www.skysails.info/index.php?id=20&L=1
and an American company doing the same thing.
http://www.kiteship.com/
These are parasails for ships. The cost of retrofitting a ship is dirt cheap. About the cost of leasing a large cape size bulk carrier ship for 2 days.
http://www.pluginpartners.org/
Plug in Partners is an advocacy group for plug in hybrid cars. This is what we need now. The average American driver would get 100mpg overall, and could charge the battery overnight, during off peak electricity demand, for $1.
That would get the average commuter back and forth to work, using no gasoline. You would only use gasoline on longer trips.
Here's a new book that demonstrates what we can do to save our planet while benefitting economically from the positive changes.
http://www.earththesequel.com./
"Krupp and Horn have turned the doom and gloom of global warming on its head. Earth: The Sequel makes it crystal clear that we can build a low-carbon economy while unleashing American entrepreneurs to save the planet, putting optimism back into the environmental story."
Michael Bloomberg, Mayor of New York City
Green Wombat is a good site to follow advances being made in alternative energy and electric and PHEV cars etc.
http://blogs.business2.com/greenwombat/
article on creative financing for solar, including what Berkeley is doing
http://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/solar-temblor-9-big-trends-page10.html
It takes the sting out of the up front cost of installing solar. This is also happening on a corporate level, with companies like Morgan Stanley setting up financing and power purchase agreements for corporations and other large businesses to install solar panels.
Power purchase agreements are how power companies in California, Nevada and Arizona are contracting for solar thermal power plants in the southwest. These PPAs are a very positive move in the right direction.
Here's what's happening on the cutting edge of thin film solar cells and panels
"Nanosolar’s founder and chief executive, Martin Roscheisen, claims to be the first solar panel manufacturer to be able to profitably sell solar panels for less than $1 a watt. That is the price at which solar energy becomes less expensive than coal."
“With a $1-per-watt panel,” he said, “it is possible to build $2-per-watt systems.”
"According to the Energy Department, building a new coal plant costs about $2.1 a watt, plus the cost of fuel and emissions, he said."
from http://www.grinzo.com/energy/index.php/category/solar/
This article shows how we could have a 69% solar electric grid by 2050, building solar power plants in the southwest.
Scientific American A Solar Grand Plan
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=a-solar-grand-plan
I don't agree with all the specifics of this proposal, but it is generally a good idea, even if we only do half or a third of what they are recommending.
It's becoming apparent that solar thermal plants are a better idea than the concentrating solar photovoltaic plants that they are emphasizing. And molten salt for storing thermal energy to generate electricity at night from solar plants is looking like the better idea. They propose caverns filled with compressed air. Molten salt only loses about 1% of it's heat over a 24 hour period, and doesn't involve digging all those caverns.
"The same acre can produce 10 times as much energy from wind as it can from corn ethanol, 180,000 miles per acre per year. But both corn ethanol and wind power pale in comparison with solar photovoltaic, which can produce more than 2 million miles worth of transport per acre per year." http://www.ecogeek.org/content/view/1454/70/
"Solar thermal power plants such as Ausra's generate electricity by driving steam turbines with sunshine. Ausra's solar concentrators boil water with focused sunlight, and produce electricity at prices directly competitive with gas- and coal-fired electric power."
"Solar thermal power plants can store energy during daylight hours and generate power when it's needed. Ausra's power plants collect the sun's energy as heat; Ausra is developing thermal energy storage systems which can store enough heat to run the power plant for up to 20 hours during dark or cloudy periods."
" All of America's needs for electric power – the entire US grid, night and day – can be generated with Ausra's current technology using a square parcel of land 92 miles on a side. For comparison, this is less than 1% of America's deserts, less land than currently in use in the U.S. for coal mines."
"In recent months, PG&E has signed deals for more than a gigawatt of electricity — enough to light more than 750,000 homes — with solar power plant developers. Such power purchase agreements can take more than a year to hammer out and the permitting and construction of a solar power station can take another three to five years."
"The solar thermal industry is in its infancy but utilities like PG&E (PCG), Southern California Edison (EIX) and San Diego Gas & Electric (SRE) have signed several contracts for solar power plants and negotiations for gigawatts more of solar electricity are ongoing."
from Green Wombat
Biomass to methane power also has big potential.
Sewage treatment plants, landfills, farms etc can all use anaerobic digesters to gather methane for power. This methane would eventually develop as things decompose and become greenhouse gas adding to global warming. This kills two birds with one stone. Check out what Environmental Power Corp is doing in this area.
Wind power
"In the US, the American Wind Energy Association forecasts that installed capacity could grow from 11,603 MW today to around 100,000 MW by 2020. In Canada, Emerging Energy Research predicts that installed wind capacity will expand from around 1,500 MW today to around 14,000 MW by 2015."
{from an article at altenergystocks.com by Charles Morand}
We now have a fledgling bioplastics industry which can make plastics from plant material like corn or non food plants like switchgrass. We now use 5-10% of our oil to make plastics, which create huge environmental problems, especially in the oceans.
Most plastic floats near the sea surface where some is mistaken for food by birds and fishes. Plastics are carried by currents and can circulate continually in the open sea. Broken, degraded plastic pieces outweigh surface zooplankton in the central North Pacific by a factor of 6-1. That means six pounds of plastic for every single pound of zooplankton."
DR. Marcus Ericson
http://www.algalita.org/research.html#plastic
http://www.algalita.org/pelagic_plastic.html
"I'd put my money on the sun & solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don't have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that." Thomas Edison, 1931
well if you think about it, technology makes experiments easy to be tested. You don't really want to wait all day to prove that your hypotheses was right, so technology really helps science. If your trying to prove something or test something, technology makes you life way easier. They're different because technology deals with making life easier and then there's the technical stuff about machinery and ya da ya da. Technology deals with more broader scale than science, it's like more hands on. Technology is cool too. While science is much cooler, Science is been around than technology. But anyway, science deals with everything, from testing an experiment to finding a cure for a disease. Science deals with explanations and experiments.
Oh, there was that bit in the bible where Jesus turned dihydrogen monoxide into ethyl alcohol… or the part where he walked on surface tension… oh wait… its just a story…………….. P.S. please learn how to use grammar correctly.
@Kamelg Gross** Haha!!
I prefer the original version.
I see big advancements in material sciences nanotechnology and the usual advancements in computers for the next 30 years or so: lighter planes, better medical treatments, cheaper stronger structures, faster and faster computer, etc…
One hundred years is a long ways off. I'm not sure but I think the whole doubling processing speeds every1.5 years will breakdown by then and we will be turning to quantum computers that uses the states of subatomic particles instead of binary. Moon bases, American flag on Mars, trans Atlantic subway, space vacations for the wealthy (not super wealthy), more renewable energy power sources, no ice caps, and a Starbucks in everyones hourse =)
It's worse, some people cannot even spell "the" online without screwing up.
Thanks to my trusty companion, Hot Rod (an MX-400 Logitech mouse)
I never misspell when I post because of the auto-spellcheck and correction click and I am wise enough to know what word to use.
Poor education and texting is in my mind, the evil source of all this illiteracy. The phone companies should boost the memory capacity of their phones for typing in coherent english or parents should lecture their kids that this is not how you should write a book report and take their phones off them for a month or two.
On the other hand,
New words like "smart phone" "quantum computing" and "fanboy" are entering our language (I do not consider internet gibberish to even qualify for a dictionary EVER)
Communication is faster than ever, you can make friends who live in another country and tell them what hobbies you are into and they send a response in seconds.
I'm holding out hope for voice recognition software to replace the keyboard so that the computer types what you dictate in correct punctuation and spelling with a touch screen manual override in case you are sick with laryngitis or just don't feel like talking to a machine.
The english language is at a crossroads and it is up to us to decide if keeping it "pure" or letting slang and pop culture interact with it is for the best.
@therealallpro the justin timberlake version
Establishing budget must be the first step in my opinion. Do you want proprietary hardware and kit in terms of that technology cul de sac that often occurs. What are the requirements in terms of users, is it that boardroom to boardroom type of scenario or is it more about groups / teams not just the management ? To get the best value from the type of activity "video conferencing" you're looking at – think along the lines of – what kit is required (hardware, bandwidth, quality, user interface) what financial foot print from an ongoing point of view. Desktop to boardroom – multipoint video and browser independence for future proofing your solution will address the flexibility aspect of "all" of your company and perhaps everyone your company deals with. The legacy issue is one of the biggest problems companies find themselves in.. who supports your hardware… and how much will that cost? Disclosure: CEO http://www.onlinemeetingrooms.com I'd be thrilled to demonstrate how far 100% independent web browsing quality has come. Hope this helps.
Great Smash Hit,the girl in Gold is worth every word of this song!
You are correct: it is black light (ultraviolet light).
Check out the links below:
which version was first?
http://earth.rice.edu/MTPE/hydro/hydrosphere/hydrosphere_how.html
this is total shit, it fuckin sucks it’s one of the worst song of all time (and Ive heard shit from Soulja Boy)
This is a good version, but i prefer the pendulum mix.
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