Future of the schools...

I recently read an article about a workshop that took place in Iowa about the future of schools. The person who attended this workshop and wrote about it went on and told us about the four major subjects that discussed there:

• How are young people changing as a result of digital media?
• How should learning environments change?
• How should learning institutions change?
• What can we do with this back in my school organization?

So I'm wondering what is the future with Emmetsburg School District and how we will teach. They go on talking about whether or not teachers should be entertainers in education or not. So my question is, should teachers be more entertaining in the classrooms or still bore our students to death. I know that some teachers are very good at doing this and they do very well at keeping the students attention while others do still drill the materials them. I know that if I was still in school, I would want my teachers to be a little more entertaining in the classroom and keep my attention. Not saying that they need to sing and dance all day long but make it a little more exciting than just taking notes day in and day out.

So as I continued to read into this article he explained how they showed them three different schools that are educating in a complete different way. The first, Florida Virtual School, is a school of virtual learning that has developed its curriculum around online gaming. The second is Quest to Learn, and it's using online game. And then the third one, The School of One, has developed a model that blends the best of online instruction and face-to-face interactions.

So now the questions to ask yourself. Where is Emmetsburg heading with teaching? Where will we be in 10 year from now? And will they look anything like the schools above?

Guess we will find out in 2020?

Here is a short video of The School of One.

Program Overview from NYCDOE Teacher Development on Vimeo.

Resources found at 1:1 Schools.net