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This document discusses the future of education and the role of technology. It presents perspectives from several educators on how education may change over the next 20 years. They predict that technology will become more integrated into classrooms, allowing students high-speed internet access. However, teachers will still be needed to provide human interaction, guidance, and support that computers cannot. The greatest challenges will be managing the vast amount of available information and prioritizing what is most important to teach with limited time.

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Guimaras State College

This document discusses the future of education and the role of technology. It presents perspectives from several educators on how education may change over the next 20 years. They predict that technology will become more integrated into classrooms, allowing students high-speed internet access. However, teachers will still be needed to provide human interaction, guidance, and support that computers cannot. The greatest challenges will be managing the vast amount of available information and prioritizing what is most important to teach with limited time.

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Republic of the Philippines

State Universities and Colleges


GUIMARAS STATE COLLEGE
SAN JUAQUIN CENTER
Buenavista, Guimaras

Subject: Ed. 214-Philosophy in Education


Name of Professor:
Reporters: Felisa F. Porras and Key T. Galleto
Topic:

Reform of Quality Education


By: Vivian Stewart
Hundreds of reforms are introduced into school systems around the country every
year in curriculum pedagogy, governance, technology, and so on. Unfortunately,
most fail to achieve the substantial improvements in student achievement that their
advocates hoped for and, overall, U.S. educational performance has been flat for the
past twenty years.
Here are the ten big lessons from the world's top-performing and rapidly improving
systems:
1. Long-Term Vision
The leaders of countries with high-performing education systems share a palpable
conviction about the centrality of education to their dreams for their society—to
raise people from poverty, achieve greater equality, develop a well-functioning
multi-cultural society and, certainly, create a thriving economy and a growing
number of good jobs.
2. Sustained Leadership
Major reforms are often triggered by an economic, social, or political crisis and may
be led by a single strong leader. Such reform efforts can bring about significant
improvement within a three- to five-year period, but substantial changes in
performance or closing achievement gaps on a large scale require a longer time
frame than most political cycles.
3. Ambitious Standards
Countries that excel set ambitious, universal, and clear standards for all their
students, typically at the national or state/provincial level.
4. Commitment to Equity
Leaders in every country proclaim their commitment to equity, but successful
education systems focus on achieving equity in a strong and deliberate way.
5. High-Quality Teachers and School Leaders
Vision, leadership, high standards, and commitment to equity are crucial starting
points, but unless they affect teaching and learning in the classroom, they won't
bring about significant change.
6. Alignment and Coherence
Lower performing systems have large "implementation gaps" between the policies
enacted at the national, state, or even district level, and what actually happens in
classrooms.
7. Intelligent Accountability
All systems struggle with the balance between top-down managerial prescription
and bottom-up professional judgment. In recent years some systems, like Singapore
and Finland, have devolved more responsibility to the school level as the quality of
their teachers and school leaders has become stronger and to encourage innovation.
8. Effective Use of Resources
High educational expenditures don't necessarily lead to high performance. In fact,
many high-performing countries have relatively modest expenditures.
9. Student Motivation and Engagement
Every country has students with varying degrees of motivation, but the intensity of
focus and time on task of students in high-performing systems is striking.
High-performing systems motivate their students to study hard through both
intrinsic and external incentives.
10. Global and Future Orientation
Recognizing the increasingly interconnected and digital world into which we are
moving, high-performing systems are going global.
These systems are developing a global and future orientation among their teachers,
school leaders, and students.

Educational Philosophies Definitions

Within the epistemological frame that focuses on the nature of knowledge and how
we come to know, there are four major educational philosophies, each related to
one or more of the general or world philosophies just discussed. These educational
philosophical approaches are currently used in classrooms the world over. They are
Perennialism, Essentialism, Progressivism, and Reconstructionism. These educational
philosophies focus heavily on WHAT we should teach, the curriculum aspect.

 For Perennialists, the aim of education is to ensure that students acquire


understandings about the great ideas of Western civilization. These ideas
have the potential for solving problems in any era. The focus is to teach ideas
that are everlasting, to seek enduring truths which are constant, not
changing, as the natural and human worlds at their most essential level, do
not change. Teaching these unchanging principles is critical. Humans are
rational beings, and their minds need to be developed.
 Essentialists believe that there is a common core of knowledge that needs to
be transmitted to students in a systematic, disciplined way. The emphasis in
this conservative perspective is on intellectual and moral standards that
schools should teach. The core of the curriculum is essential knowledge and
skills and academic rigor.
 Progressivists believe that education should focus on the whole child, rather
than on the content or the teacher. This educational philosophy stresses that
students should test ideas by active experimentation. Learning is rooted in
the questions of learners that arise through experiencing the world.
 Social reconstructionism is a philosophy that emphasizes the addressing of
social questions and a quest to create a better society and worldwide
democracy. Reconstructionist educators focus on a curriculum that highlights
social reform as the aim of education

Education in the New Millennium

As we (finally!) entered the new millennium that most of us were too


impatient to wait for, we at Education World found ourselves equally
impatient to know what the future of education would bring. We decided
to ask the experts for their opinions. Learn what teachers in the trenches
see in their crystal balls. Included: An opportunity to share your vision of
the future on the Education World message board.

"So will kids still need teachers?" Wagner asked. "Most definitely! A computer
cannot transfer the smile of a teacher when a student finally gets the concept or
provide a pat on the back for a job well done. A computer cannot console a child
who needs support or give advice with the full knowledge of a child's individual
circumstances and family situation. A computer might be able to tell stories and
teach -- but it will never provide a human touch."

BRIDGING THE GAP


John Simeone, Webmaster at Beach Street Middle School, in West Islip, New York,
agreed that technology has the potential to transform schools. "I envision schools
being much different 20 years from now, due largely to our technological evolution
and the advent of the Internet," Simeone told Education World. "I believe the
Internet will be part of everyday school life and students will have high-speed access
to it at any time of the school day.

A TECHNOLOGICAL WORLD
"I think you will see some major changes in education over the next 20 years," said
Cathy Chamberlain, a teacher in New York's Oswego City School District. "Children
today have been brought up in a technological world. They use technology to search
for knowledge and to solve problems.

"We need a total reinvention of our idea of school so that it really is the
place where life-long learning happens and is valued."
MORE CHALLENGES FOR THE FUTURE
"I think the greatest challenge for teachers and schools of the future will be how to
manage the information that is available to them and their students," agreed Kim
Logie, technology coordinator at Cesar Chavez Academy, in Detroit, Michigan. "I
think knowing what the important subjects are -- and managing the limited time and
limitless information available -- will be among the greatest challenges of the future.

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