Re-reading Edutopia’s interview with Alvin Toffler:
These are the fundamentals of the futurist’s vision for education in the 21st century:
- Open 24 hours a day
- Customized educational experience
- Kids arrive at different times
- Students begin their formalized schooling at different ages
- Curriculum is integrated across disciplines
- Nonteachers work with teachers
- Teachers alternate working in schools and in business world
- Local businesses have offices in the schools
- Increased number of charter schools