Practical work, work on grit skills, and physical activities will become also crucial part of "disruptions" to compensate all negative effects of upcoming educational revolutions. We are already aware new generations have worser physical skills and will to make something, new edu trends will only accelerate existing problems and they will cause counter effects that will be part of emerging future education.

My experience is that the concept of a digital native is over-applied to students. They are cell-phone natives, but outside of phone navigation skills, the large majority of my students do not adapt to new digital environments easily, as I have found in moving from Moodle to Google Classroom. I have had to coach my students repeatedly on the most basic processes. And it's not that they haven't had access to devices--I teach in a private school where laptops have been required tools for several years and teachers have been using a variety of digital applications in class.

Multitasking? Solution based problem solving without reflection? What kind of psycho-babble is this???

And in the age of Pearson, PARCC and Betsey DeVos I don't see how "inquiry skills" will drive learning, or that competencies will trump credentials.

We also have lost the value of the individual who thoughtfully dissents , and prize charismatic "group think" to the point of bullying the dissenter. We are teaching students to comply, to obey without question or face the negative consequences (often NOT getting that diploma). We no longer acknowledge the law of unintended consequences - or realize that having the attention span of a gnat is NOT a good thing and is a product of the very technology served up as an educational panacea.

Deep learning REQUIRES reflection, and you need a combination of focused thinking and diffuse thinking. There is no discussion here on values or context, just a push, push, push for solutions - that benefit whom exactly - our corporate overlords?

We need to reestablish education as a public good and really help students develop their talents, and acquire the knowledge and skills necessary to be competent adults who contribute to the greater good of their communities.

Thank you for pointing out the glib and disturbing contradictions with which this piece is riddled. You expressed the multiple problems wrapped up in this text so much better than I could have.

Exactly!!!!

Here we go again...more "digital native" nonsense.
Right now, my students who have iPads assigned to them regularly demand paper/pencil tests and assignments. They also demand what has now become known as "old fashioned" teaching methods. They attempt to multi-task a lot, and they fail at it because our squishy organic brains have not joined the digital revolution and, I hope, never will. They use their phones to communicate on a shallow level with each other, but the deep nature of their interactions is really no different than it ever was. They still obsess over social status and the opposite sex. I have been teaching for twenty years and, in that time, my students are still the same human beings they always were.

Why don't you read the research on this before making such an ill informed comment. The term and behaviours attached are well researched and documented.

Digital natives are a myth. Ignoring references to those "natives", the way I read this it sounds like a lot of buzzwords and babble that when condensed point to the following dystopian picture: Teachers will be replaced with some sort of "bots" where parents will need to fill in any gaps; instead of schools learners will be in something like a MOOC; rather degrees, many students will be steered toward badges or other credentials that prepare them for very specific tasks. Unfortunately, I can see a future where this happens for most students, and the wealthy will still benefit from private schools, smaller classes sizes, and more classical educations instead of job training. Please, let's not let this happen!

The sad truth is that this kind of techno-utopian point of view has become so influential among wealthy people with no experience in education. When I hear people talk about "disrupting" education, I always assume that they're really talking about creating new revenue streams for tech companies.

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You have no choice because what is being supplied is not working.

Yes, there are little schools for the uber-elite in places like San Francisco where this type of sales pitch/claptrap is worshipped. No idea what the students are actually getting done. But these Timmy Learys of tech/education simply never shut their mouths. Gates has been doing it for years. Both hysterical and terrifying, Come on Bill Gates and the rest of you--let's all volunteer at one of your local "regular" old public schools as a teacher's assistant and see the workload teachers are under. Help out, for a while. Before we become "more like what you say we must" get in there with the kids and get to know them. Find out what real young humans are up to these days. If you even care.

Often, predictions about the future don't need to be accurate in order to promote themselves.

Eleven years ago I sat in an auditorium full of teachers while a speaker predicted that in ten years, teachers would be irrelevant, thanks to the internet and technology which allowed students to interact with lightning quick information. (I'm not sure how much a person has to pay for technology that is lightning quick, since I always seem to have to wait for things to load, reboot, update, download, etc.)

It didn't happen, but the district paid him thousands of dollars.

There is no opportunity to develop wisdom among learners in future through education. Think again whether we need this type of education which do not impart human values in future generation.

Franklin, you I agree with! You are right.

Dear Teachers,

You all realise that you have to change do you? Education is failing and teachers need to change. I speak as an ex teacher leading a team of teachers in a well funded venture to enable these changes. we meet nothing but interest and acceptance. The problem is with teaching and education and much of what is referred to we are working on and Finland the number 1 country for education would like to be able to! So, if you think this is fiction have a look at yourselves and your children, The SKills Gap and artifical intelligence and ask yourselves what your roles will be when doctors and lawyers are replaced by intelligent bots!

Oh, and maybe the best statements is students have short attention spans....but "digital natives" will force educators to get out of that box. This writer and his "disruptions" in old school parlance reads like a jerk on the take.

The author leads with a premise that technology/AI will force changes in education, but then 80% of the predicted "disruptions" have nothing to do with technology and everything to do with ideology (with no supporting arguments). Most of this could have been put forth in 1960 as a new ideology for education. And lots of empty gibberish seeking to establish credibility through pseudo-intellectual verbosity. I am glad to see that the majority of comments show individual thought and consideration rather than blind acceptance of such drivel.

For readers interested in a thought provoking TED Talk on the problems inherent in AI and blind faith in "big data", please see the following link with this intro:

"Algorithms decide who gets a loan, who gets a job interview, who gets insurance and much more -- but they don't automatically make things fair, and they're often far from scientific. Mathematician and data scientist Cathy O'Neil coined a term for algorithms that are secret, important and harmful: "weapons of math destruction." Learn more about the hidden agendas behind these supposedly objective formulas and why we need to start building better ones."...
https://www.ted.com/talks/c...

For more, see also:
Researchers Shut Down AI That Invented Its Own Language:
http://sco.lt/59CQvx

Microsoft is Deleting its AI Chatbot's Incredibly Racist Tweets: http://sco.lt/4sOWY5

Mattel Has Canceled Plans For An Kid-Focused AI Device That Drew Privacy Concerns: http://sco.lt/4oFJpp

Sounds horrible! Human children need to be with other children. You can't reference social-emotional learning with avatars as stand-ins for human beings, and everyone "connected" via a machine, i.e. a computer. In the future, as today, one needs both the portfolio and the credential. Nor have I seen the digital natives rebel against conformity; they seem largely to be baying sheep. Witness our Russian-influenced election.