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16/06/08 09:00
Welcome to our blog.
We’re Secondary Futures with a mission to imagine the future of secondary education. We’re allowed to look beyond the constraints of today to a world in twenty years time where secondary education - in fact our whole society - may be different.
The challenge is to imagine other changes that have happened in society as well, so that you place your ideas of ‘the school’ in a real version of tomorrow’s world.
If the nature of the family for example has changed (bigger or smaller?), or the ways we move around or receive information is completely different, or our expectations of government and government services have shifted, then all of this impacts of what schooling might be like in the future.
So here’s a licence to explore how many things that shape our future might have changed. Imagine if schools didn’t exist at all? What if fuel was so costly that we couldn’t afford to move around freely on a daily basis? What if students were instead forced to receive their entire education on-line via ‘internet school’?
We’ve spent 4 years talking to thousands of New Zealanders about where they see education in the future, and we know they don’t want ‘the school’ to disappear. They don’t want teachers to go either, because the internet alone can’t deliver a ‘New Zealand’ experience to kids, or help with learning as much as a professional workforce can.
No matter what technology comes up with next, New Zealanders don’t want the social interaction that happens in schools to be unavailable.
But ‘the school’ as we have known it will be changed forever. It’s likely to become instead a ‘central hub’ for kids, for learning experts, for all members of the community . You can be linked to schooling, as you are to libraries, marae or shopping malls - for your whole life if you want. And resources in the community like businesses, local groups, retired people are on tap to support kids’ learning.
Tell us what you think education will look like in the future. What will have changed in twenty years?
We’ve developed ‘timeshift cards’ which are a helpful way to think about the future in New Zealand; for example, did you know that 20 years ago the average age of a first time mum was 26.2 years? Today it’s 28 years (it was over 30 years old last year, so perhaps mums are getting younger again). What do you think it might be in twenty years time?
We have timeshift cards covering a range of trends. Contact us if you’d like to have a set. Just send us a comment using the link below. We want you to have the chance to rattle cages and challenge the status quo. So go on - let us know what you think. We might not be able to predict the future, but that can’t stop us trying to address it.
We’re Secondary Futures with a mission to imagine the future of secondary education. We’re allowed to look beyond the constraints of today to a world in twenty years time where secondary education - in fact our whole society - may be different.
The challenge is to imagine other changes that have happened in society as well, so that you place your ideas of ‘the school’ in a real version of tomorrow’s world.
If the nature of the family for example has changed (bigger or smaller?), or the ways we move around or receive information is completely different, or our expectations of government and government services have shifted, then all of this impacts of what schooling might be like in the future.
So here’s a licence to explore how many things that shape our future might have changed. Imagine if schools didn’t exist at all? What if fuel was so costly that we couldn’t afford to move around freely on a daily basis? What if students were instead forced to receive their entire education on-line via ‘internet school’?
We’ve spent 4 years talking to thousands of New Zealanders about where they see education in the future, and we know they don’t want ‘the school’ to disappear. They don’t want teachers to go either, because the internet alone can’t deliver a ‘New Zealand’ experience to kids, or help with learning as much as a professional workforce can.
No matter what technology comes up with next, New Zealanders don’t want the social interaction that happens in schools to be unavailable.
But ‘the school’ as we have known it will be changed forever. It’s likely to become instead a ‘central hub’ for kids, for learning experts, for all members of the community . You can be linked to schooling, as you are to libraries, marae or shopping malls - for your whole life if you want. And resources in the community like businesses, local groups, retired people are on tap to support kids’ learning.
Tell us what you think education will look like in the future. What will have changed in twenty years?
We’ve developed ‘timeshift cards’ which are a helpful way to think about the future in New Zealand; for example, did you know that 20 years ago the average age of a first time mum was 26.2 years? Today it’s 28 years (it was over 30 years old last year, so perhaps mums are getting younger again). What do you think it might be in twenty years time?
We have timeshift cards covering a range of trends. Contact us if you’d like to have a set. Just send us a comment using the link below. We want you to have the chance to rattle cages and challenge the status quo. So go on - let us know what you think. We might not be able to predict the future, but that can’t stop us trying to address it.
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