The future of education

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Speaking lesson:  The future of education

Teacher: Izabel Kophee (USA)

Students: Mikki Linn, Megi Ashland, Reila, Fatima, Vendy Lyric,NohA, Jirka0 (Afrika, Europe, South America)

This class was again with the lovely Izzy. We met up in a very comfortable room.  We talked about an education and how is the education approached in different countries. It always depends WHAT and HOW it is taught. You can have one subject but it can be taught in many different ways. It always depends on the teacher and how is the teacher used to teach. I have experienced teaching in two countries.

The style in one of them is more or less just learning by heart and it is not important to have an own opinion.

 In the other country I was asked to actually voice my opinion which was great, but difficult at the beginning. The learning is done through working on various projects. However there wasn’t given much space to general knowledge. I think, that the best way of teaching would be somewhere in the middle.

Fatima was talking about the teaching in Brazil where many parents think that they don’t have to be involved in the teaching process.

[13:26] Izabel Kophee: the education that kids were supposed to receive at home they are leaving on teachers' head

Jirka’s opinion was that teachers and students should have more personal contact and maybe there should be more individual approach to students.

Later we were given an article written in 1900….

I’ve pasted just a part of this article because it’s just a great utopia. I wish it was true!

Predicting the Future of Education

Back in 1900, author John Elfreth Watkins, Jr. published in The Ladies Home Journal a series of predictions for life in the 21st century. This is what he predicted education would look like today:

A university education will be free to every man and woman. Several great national universities will have been established. Children will study a simple English grammar adapted to simplified English, and not copied after the Latin. Time will be saved by grouping like studies. Poor students will be given free board, free clothing and free books if ambitious and actually unable to meet their school and college expenses.

There is a link where you can read the whole article.

From: http://www.good.is/posts/what-will-education-be-like-in-100-years/

We discussed the article and tried to answer the following question….anything comes to your mind?

Now, try to think 100 years into the future. What do you predict we will see in the education systems of 2100?

We all agreed that it most probably be more interactive and more online.

Just to summarize it – to study and learn something new is great in any age, but you always need a motivation