Ah... it would have been pretty hard to predict Zoom! lol You were correct about paperbacks and paper, and computers, for the most part. Just now are we starting to dump the SAT--good call! Still a fear of Wikipedia, however. Sigh

Is it just me, or did this age like milk

The bloody schools should also be banned for ruining our childhood hours. A pathetic waste of time.

By 2020 human populations will almost deplete vital-natural-resources whilst wealthy governments starve their nations to fund costly space exploration projects, intended only for the most elite who can afford tickets to go live on Mars. Yes, people will die of famine and not just
in third world countries – UK for instance, already depends upon (unquantifiable number of food banks), as unprecedented homelessness now a shunned matter of serious televised debate. No flying carsor ‘Back-To-The-Future’ SCI-FI fiction will occur in anyone’s Earth-Time because governments know that we are all living on borrowed Asimov- astrophysics reality, whatever the UN Climate Treaty cannot do to stop irreversible GAIA destruction.

Furthermore, it is well understood and researched by Biophysicists that the planet is dying rapidly. Of course Earth and we will still be around in 2020, yet survival of the proletariat classes will surpass that of all others – why starvation of the global masses such a fundamental Brave
New Holocaust.

Yes sure. Just AM and FM radio will be gone. "More people listen to the radio everyday than all other forms of entertainment", including milllenials, gen x, senior, etc.
I like when your company allows you to view your paycheck online to cut down on paper. What really happens is: 1) I end up buying the paper, 2) which comes packaged in paper, 3)and of course comes with a receipt, and 4) a monthly bill from your credit card for purchasing the paper and toner. So how much paper was saved. Whom ever writes these stories, is either young or lacks basic knowledge.

Wikipedia is a form of Zionist mind control. Try editing an article, see how far you get. Also, keep in mind that it's the first or second result to appear with a "Google" search. Google is another Jew enterprise.

Apart from idle vacuum cleaners, extinct laptops and outdated nanotech machinery - very high probability that ballooning human species will also vanish from existence by 2050 if we continue to exploit finite natural resources at current unprecedented rate. Our hyped irrational fears of a Huxley Brave New World anthropoid cloning by AD2540, not something we should ever concern ourselves or loose a precious day in the immediate life - living in the now and not tomorrow scientific futurism. Perhaps if we do thrive beyond 2050 despite depleting our biosphere, very likely kill one another to compete for limited resources or die in the process of an inevitable shrinking workforce and a stagnant economy, generating widespread system of political dystopia.

The key is you gotta smack your balls around. Technology is useless if you don't give your balls a good smack.

Knock yourself unconscious in the process whilst some asexual android is tinkering about with your brain cell incapacitation!.

Obsolete desks, language labs and computers aside; Shelly Blake-Plock forecast of life in the 21st century education system reminiscent of recently yet highly acclaimed film documentary 'Schooling the world'. WhilstShelly Blake-Plock review of Sandy Speicher’s vision of new world tutoring, predictably centres upon atypical westernised, modernized paperless classrooms by 2020. It shall certainly be the preserve of
the wealthiest parents in upwardly-mobile current-trend societies, who shall, undoubtedly so, send their children to these specialized mod-tech schools - the poorest children of mixed heritage shall still be learning pointless yet traditional educational outcomes - totally irrelevant to what the future jobs market shall offer career minded individuals with an outdated Diploma or Degree by then.

As world populations bloat and ever increasing deforestation, food shortages, famine, poverty and social/economic inequality continue to
spiral to brave new heights; survival skills will be paramount to all of children's' primary educational needs: a certain fact.
Shelly Blake-Plock is of the skewered view that wealthy educated children shall be in the early throws of space colonization: hence the elaborate 'paperless' schooling kind of culture that currently exists within cosmology sciences!. It may not occur to the ordinary well-informed pedestrian that space colonization as earth oceans arereadily reclaiming landmass - something of a fantastical dream -warp-speed kind of space technology remains humorously expensive; opulent nuclear weaponry a lot cheaper, more pertinent instead to now unsettled global unrest.

In addition to the poorest children all of mixed heritage and, not being able to compete with wealthier privileged ones specializing in space-technology, Shelly Blake-Plock attempts to illuminate the shocking poverty gap even within westernised schooling cultures. By 2020 I would like to think that all children are equal, regardless of economic background and equipped with all the necessary skills and tools to live and survive in challenging environments under imminent climate change threat. In one way, this is a goal that merits paperless-qualification and why all present day schooling of children should make this a curriculum priority.

Leroy Jetson goes to school...

I agree with your post, but it will once again separate society from those who can afford and those who can't. And as for the paperback books, it is my real pleasure to be seen with a book rather than a digital device for reading. it is a true pleasure to read like this. I am always looking at a computer screen and love when I have a paperback in my hand. Home schooling, well that will certainly change the environment. I smile because school is a source of relief to some (well we all agree parenthood, especially a mother - is a never ending job, nor easy). I do think more about where society will be in ten years because we certainly at a pivotal time in society now. i am not sure if I like where we are headed, but I do have eyes wide open. Interesting times to say the least.

There are many good points in this article, and some of these list items are already in place in many areas (as they should be). However, I'm disappointed that many of these topics are about as useful and topical to K-3 educators as the SBAC test. Sure, kids, just pull out your Smartphones. Doesn't matter that you can't read any of the directions. Also, where are the schools who are rich enough to say, "Hey, let's pull out all of these lockers, which are PAID FOR, and hire a coat check for the kids to use instead!"? Really?

And there won't be any more Child Kidnappings as all kids will have a chip inserted into their bodies somewhere, so parents and teachers know where they are. School attendance will be recorded by that, and as they grow up, checking in and out of work.

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Most of what is described is integral to the philosophy and practice at Sudbury Valley School (www.sudval.org) and has been since the School was established in 1968! The result is alumni who take their place in the greater world readily and easily. Their transition to higher education and/or the work force is accomplished naturally. Since they have had responsibility for themselves (and their school community) and have followed their interests and initiatives through their childhood, they see adulthood much the same way. (The interested reader can find more detail at the School's website (www.sudval.org)

I hope Blake-Plock's projections come to fruition in the time frame she predicts, but I fear that entrenched interests will continue to slow aany transition.

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Bingo. I say that as an educational support staff person.

The GOOD NEWS is we are having this discussion.

Two leaders in the 'thinking' of the future of education, in my opinion, are Ken Robinson and Sugata Mitra. Those two have been active as both progressive educators and independent critical thinkers.

What is interesting is that they both acknowledge that the 'future' is right here in the 'present'. No need to look through a telescope for what is 'next practice'. It is here right in front of us and we just need to choose to 'get on with it'. The wheel is still round and the learner characteristics of the present and future are the same as existed in the past. Unique, diverse and dynamic. Just use the cognitive tools we already have and any other 'tools' (ICT or otherwise) will fit the task at hand.

An assumed 'problem' (under education) is creating a mindset that searches for 'solutions'. Solutions that can't be found in ICT, Models or Theories. There really is no problem now that hasn't existed before. In my mind, the problem theories are being promulgated by external vested interests. Many of our respected and successful educators proclaim that the most meaningful learning is done in 'social' contexts. Echoes of our esteemed Greek sages. Human behaviour remains the same.

For example, Ken exhorts us a profession to 'transform' the established models of mass education into more imaginative, creative and innovative means of allowing the learner to learn. Irrespective of age, gender, ability, social status, demographic etc etc etc.

Sugata follows this theme also by recommending we simply create the conditions for self learning by providing the means for the learner to learn as they best can learn by.

One of our primary roles is once those conditions are in place, get out of the way and let learning happen naturally and incrementally. Just like every other learning stage of our lives.

A case to illustrate my posit is the continued obsession with 'classrooms' as a form of both a social construct for shared learning and as a practical form of 'managing' learning. The concept of a classroom is no longer valid in the present or future.

This may sound provocative, however the model of conforming a learning environment or experience into a fixed form like a classroom is counter intuitive and counter productive. We learn in many ways and forms, in a diverse range of social situations and intentions. Why do we persist with an outdated model of the 'industrial model' of education? In all levels from infant through to academia?

This is what l feel Ken is encouraging us to ask ourselves about deeply. It is hampering our ability to educate the needs and demands of 21st century society and economy.

As the axiom declares, "history is a great teacher". We can learn from history or simply continue the status quo. The history lessons in the 22nd century will judge us according to what we change and foster now.

Another truism is that we 'see what we want to see" and "do what we want to do". This is our greatest challenge. Instead, we need to 'think' what we need to think and 'apply' what we need to apply. Each generation is different, progressive and dynamic. Just like has been for many centuries and for many more ahead of us.

By all means argue for your 'ideal' form of education as this is part of creating the appropriate forms of education practice for our educational objectives. Keep in mind that there is no 1 idea, model to theory that makes education effective.

Sure, accept the resources and tools of the evolving modern age as best we can, but keep in mind also that the 'basics' remain the same. People are people and learning practice must 'fit' the person doing the learning. How diligent we are applying this eternal principle will determine the level of learner engagement and any subsequent learning.

The only real 'obsolescence' is what proves to be not suitable to this theme and will be another lesson of history to learn from.

Thinking independently, critically and progressively will never be obsolete.

Keep the dream alive educators, our future learners are depending on us.

Best regards,

Michael Nelson.

So many excellent comments here, both for and against the proposed changes. I could only hope that the author's vision will come to fruition, but I fear it will not. Educational institutions are notoriously slow to change. One has only to step onto any campus to see the factory model still in place - a ringing bell to call the masses back from break, a community cafeteria that focuses on serving mass product rather than quality food, work product compared to others' work product, not scored on its own merit or more importantly, scored to a static standard, and everybody doing the same thing during the same part of the day. This model was built in the 1890's to prepare young people for the Industrial Revolution. Whether you support the use of technology in the classroom or not, isn't it time we changed the model?

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OMg! We will be back to learning the way our Founders did, only with more advanced technology. LOL

and also 'Handwriting'.

Has anybody noticed HOW CLOSE WE ARE TO BEING THE WAY IT IS IN WALL-E

Well it sounds like there's a bright and positive future ahead waiting for us with less structured (and stale) educational facilities. I dont quite get the lockers part, a coat check maybe? uh?

Since your list doesn't include a major increase in school funding, I doubt the potential of most of these things. They sound a bit pricy to me.

I'm going to bookmark this article and have a look in 2020 just to see how incorrect it is. Reminds me of all the fanciful stuff from the 80's about flying cars and hover boards by now etc. People like to make all kinds of assumptions and predictions about the future, and they're usually wrong. We'll see.

#5) The professional resume is dead, replaced by the personal website. It only stands to reason that testing will be replaced by electronic portfolios.
#20) Probability and statistics are a far more useful than algebra (although some algebra skills are needed for statistics).

Until parents aren't subsidized to have kids out of wedlock, all the tech in the world won't make a difference.

Until some cultures stop harassing their members for doing well in school, this is all dreaming and fodder for the homeschool culture.

However, the socialist mobs will soon work to make college admission, employment, etc., contingent on a minimum # of years in authorized public school social indoctrination.

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Mind/Shift authors need educated on proper presentation and a less "So.. suck-it" attitude.

As a college professor, I can say that this article is based on a FALSE ASSUMPTION that these things are not already in place. Also, telling teachers that they need to "get over themselves" is not a productive way to create collaborative conversation. Too bad the author didn't spend some time in current schools before writing this, and the authors who alienate teachers with their assumptions and off-putting tone demonstrate prima facie cluelessness that is obsolete.

As a teacher in Texas I submit that this list ignores the role of athletics in the Public and Private school curriculums. We act like it isn't part of education but I can tell you from 23 years of experience that both athletics and the accompanying Band dominate and dictate what happens at the high school level in Texas. All academic considerations come a distant third.

Thank you for your post, Ms. Blake-Plock. Your forward-looking attitude is much appreciated by educators - like myself - who are looking at where education should go. I read your thoughts as where we should go, while comments below lend a bit of pragmatism and "the past reveals the future" understandings.

This practitioner's view:

1. Desks must change, yes! I would not buy a desk for a classroom unless it was height-adjusting to become a standing desk, on wheels or otherwise easily mobile, and smaller for flexibility.

2. Desktops have no place in the classroom anymore. Laptops, tablets, and - yes! - mobile phones need to be integrated.

3. See #2.

4. Homework has never worked. See the research. Students who learn for life - a new mindset - is critical.

5. Ever proctored a standardized test? The mind-numbing uselessness and private-industry profit-drive reeks through and through.

6. Differentiated expectations of students are what's needed. Students are not the same. Then teachers can differentiate.

7. Agreed.

8. Ereading devices have come a long way in a short time, and they will come further.

9. Attendance should be location based, a checkin through mobile device. Done. A teacher chore nomore.

10. Agreed.

11. Disagreed. IT professionals will be more and more necessary to maintain the infrastructure.

12. Schools as satellite homebases, rather than cumbersome institutions, sounds about right.

13. Students creating collaboratively, forming interest-based groups. Yes, please.

14. Education schools need to be cutting-edge. And they're not. Concurrently, they must maintain tried-and-true best practice training.

15. Teachers teaching teachers. More, please. Educators like myself fail to realize our potential when school leaders fail to listen and prioritize self-driven-PD.

16. Yes, that is the defunct norm continued by defunct leaders.

17. Parents-as-learners-and-leaders. Yes.

18. Nutrition-education focus. Why does this not happen already?

19-21. Agreed.

Maybe I am lucky but this all seems to be happening at my kids school already!

This reads like a wish list not a prediction of things to come. Or your optimism relies on ignoring the pace of education thus far.

In other words....education gets worse and produces more illiterate and under achieving kids. North American is in trouble.

*Yawn*. How incredibly, boringly, technocratic. The real revolution will come when we focus on what kids are doing and feeling and excited about--instead of the twiddly tools they're using, or the twiddly tools we're using on them.

In 1972, at a small city high school in North Carolin, our educators came up with a brilliant plan to help us (students) transition past the King and Kennedy murders, "Jim Crow", riots, the active and open division of seperate but unequal of the old south and of the many more ills that have damaged both people of "color" and European-Americans who claim to be "white people". An inspiring and new approach to learning was developed. Not feeling the need for Juniors and Seniors to continue the normal English and History curriculum, we experienced:

Eng 11.12-01 "Mass Media" (studying the power of media, newspapers, tabloids, magazines and such...well, there was no internet!).

Eng 11.12-02 "Social Settings of Intolerance" (the study of racism, sexism, ageism, rich-poor ills, and such). We stopped fighting each other in school, amazing huh? Of course we were required to read "The Outsiders", "The Fire Next Time" and "West-side Story" and watch "To Sir with Love", but what could we do? Going over past-participle and blah, blah and this and that and blah became "blah". We were happy to read and watch a movie.

Eng 11.12-03 : "Myths and Legends" (The study of Ancient mythologies and the world's 6 largest Religions) What, religion and mythology in a public school? An abomination! We couldn't wait to go to class.

Hands down the over-filled favorite under Mr Green,
Eng 11.12-04: Persuasion and Propaganda (The study of how politics, religion, money and power and the media can have a positive or damaging effect on people. We had to study Hitler, Stalin, The Inquistions, and McCarthyism mainly. We had a real live Witch visit us and I was proud to bring my Viet-nam vet/one of first black police officers brother to speak with the class!

Needless to say, high-school was Hell until Junior/Senior year. I was dismayed to visit from College one year later and find that Politicians had overstepped our Educators and eliminated the program. It's also disturbing to know that over many years the 4300 graduating juniors and seniors from my little town (Goldsboro, NC) may be the only students in the USA that experienced the innovation...and cannot be conned!

We can only hope journalism-by-lists will be gone even sooner.

I love the edgy, slightly sarcastic and indicting tone of this article. So let me respond in kind. But please note that 7 of the 21 I agree with. I’m not cynical, just a realist.

1. Desks will be gone? But where will the students set their computers?

2. Language Labs replaced by smart phones? Right, the U.S. has such a great track record of learning foreign languages.

3. Computing via handhelds – sure if all they do is Text, Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, etc.

4. Homework gone – yup, this is true – but not because it has no worth, because the students refuse to do it.

5. Standardized tests gone – agreed, and about time too.

6. Tech is not necessary for differentiation, time is.

7. “Get over myself” from fear of Wikipedia? – Where have you been? I’ve been using it for years.

8. Bye-bye books? Not gonna happen. Scoff all you want.

9. Bio scans? Hi there Big Brother! Public is sure gonna embrace this one - not!

10. Lockers gone? O.K. I’m good with this.

11. IT Depts. Gone? Nope, they will be bigger than ever.

12. No centralized institutions? That could hurt the football program, couldn’t it?
Bye-bye extra-curricular.

13. No more grade levels? I doubt it, but more for social reasons than educational.

14. Now this one I like, but I wonder where all the money will come from?

15. I like this one too. No more gurus with résumés in the past tense.

16. Bye-bye Curricular norms? Bye-bye common knowledge.

17. 50/50 on this one. “Helicopter” parents will drive the schools; the rest will remain as uninvolved as always.

18. Hallelujah!

19. OK. No biggie. They are doing it now.

20. They will all take Algebra in Middle school? Happening now. Just ask a H.S.
Algebra teacher how well they learned it.

21. “In ten year’s time schools will reduce their paper consumption by 90%?” Nope.
That’s what they said ten years ago. Computers increased consumption.

I will believe it when I see it. Not disagreeing with this necessarily, but not sure this is what is going to happen within the next 6 years...

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Obviously the person writing this does not understand the reason for Algebra-not for math skills but for learning thinking skills. It is needed along with Geometry for learning logic and problem solving whether or not you are headed to be a math major. Also the brain has to hit the right developmental point to understand the abstract ideas of algebra to learn it. Memorizing formulas in earlier grades does not teach algebra and the purpose it has in our educational system. Some of these items may be the future but the more we get away from learning with others and only via IT, we become a colder society and lose the social skills needed to survive .

you just solved for me why i repeatedly failed algrebra 1 from 8th grade to 12th grade when they finally decided i no longer had to keep taking it, and aced geometry. i'm an extremely logical, analytical thinker. i am NOT abstract. algebra made ZERO sense to me and seemed to constantly contradict itself therefore i could never understand it. geometry made all the sense to me in the world and was incredibly easy. no teacher could ever explain algebra to me as they sounded like they were speaking gibberish and kept changing the rules.

I hated algebra, and I couldn't UNDERSTAND it...geometry made perfect sense to me as well, got high marks in it. and YET, every personality test, every job I have had, I am an out of the box thinker, I can logically estimate trends that others that couldn't see. I married 2 engineers that could out calculate anyone. They could probably have put men on the moon single handedly, but could they contribute and exist in society very well, NOPE..did they exercise common sense, hardly.

I love the "learning will be 24/7"...Learning has been 24/7 and always will be. What you're bringing to the forefront is the very thing that is plaguing Americans today. They are working 24/7 if they are doing ANY kind of job that requires skills. On call on their phones, their computers, work becomes the central focus of life and people are stressed with something "impacting" them all the time. Email, chronically checking messaging, unable to go on vacation because it's an instantaneous world. What we really need is to figure out how to develop ourselves as people because THAT skill is what makes for well-rounded individuals with interests that cross over and change fields. Instead, we're creating drones. And I don't see anything you listed above that doesn't further the Wall-E world.

As a math teacher (on two continents over the last 15 years) all I can really add to this discussion is that the person who wrote this contradicts herself within the scope of her piece suggesting that Algebra should be moved to middle school entirely but that organization of classes should be based on "interest". There would be no middle school, right? so there would be no "high school" either and students would take the courses appropriate for their brain development at a given time which for some high school aged students, IS the abstract thinking that is presented and practiced in a good Algebra 1 class. Because not everyone is ready for the deep analysis in Algebra 1 that we would like to share and practice - anyone can do the algorithm that most people think of algebra as, but to get to the heart of it, to think and talk and delve into the depths of Algebra and why we study it isn't accessible to all 12 year olds.

Oh you sweet people. You all have overlooked the elephant in the room. You are assuming that all of your students will have those lovely little toys available to them. That their parents should get them or the school districts will provide them. Cafeteria food? For some children this is the only meal they ever eat. They barely have clothes to wear and you are talking major bucks on tech. Even if they took the tech home to work on, there is no guarantee that it won't get taken by another family member and sold for cash. Wake up. This is 2014 and the poverty level children are just as much with us as they ever were and the upper class is still ignoring them when they make their grandious plans for the future. And NOT ONCE has anyone addressed the needs of the special needs child, that is, the Downs child or similar mental condition, the handicapped, or other minority interest group. Because none of you notice them! But the teachers of this country DO!