Current trends in education and technology as signs to the future

✍ Scribed by Mary-Alice White

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1989
• Weight: 792 KB
• Volume: 5
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0167-9287
• DOI: 10.1016/s0167-9287(89)80003-2

✦ Synopsis

In her keynote speech to the Working Conference, Mary-Alice White identified the following twelve trends in education and technology:

the gap between technology and its content; -school choice; -the mismatch between the curriculum, the new technologies and the tests; -the visual versus the logocentric curriculum; -distance learning; -the emerging problem in evaluation; -making schools more democratic; -increasing business pressure on public education; -the impact of minority students;

television: the influential educational system; -multi-media, hyper-media and hyper-hype; -learning through telecommunications. All of these trends hold more promise to the author then anything else that has happened in education in this century.