Teacher of the future

Ben H. Davis

Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1996, vol. 47, issue 11, 849-853

Abstract: All too often the discussion of the “teacher of the future” is focused on science fiction. The use of virtual reality technologies, the telecommunication of visualizations, interactive media, connections to research laboratories in outer space, or the electronic classroom being a room in your own home are images dragged from the visionary's closet. What passes for vision is a look into the future through digital lenses. Digital technologies are the given; “being digital” in the future is no surprise. What will be a surprise is that teachers will have more power, more influence, and more work. The new technologies are virtual cement mixers that make abstractions concrete. The ability to literally see physics theories or social interactions by creating digital models is a reality. There will be no subject that cannot be comprehended, no students who cannot learn math or science or Shakespeare because they “don't get it.” What they will not be able to see is that ideas and the technologies that have rendered them have histories. And those histories are the ground upon which coherent understanding is built. © 1996 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Date: 1996
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