Imagine it's the year 2005, and you're a high-school teacher. Later, the students start their lessons on their wireless electronic textbooks. Many high-tech companies are spending billions of dollars to make it real. Scattered over the hillsides of Europe are hundreds of castles dating back to feudal times more than a thousand years ago. With advancing technology and changing geographic boundaries, these bulwarks of strength became vulnerable.
Schools face similar challenges today.
As we consider our visions of the future of education, it strikes me as most appropriate to revisit the prophetic literature of perhaps the greatest writer of educational divination. I speak, of course, of the masterful 16th-century prophet and poet, Nostracosa. What we imagine that lies before us in the K-12 marketplace may not be so telling as what is already here. We all know the old saw that the adventure is in the journey, not the destination. In my view, there is little question that we will be a technologically literate society.