1. Alvin Toffler
Amanda Tame
TCI 537
November 2010

2. Futurist
• Radical views
• Transform education
• Reject out-dated models
• Embrace needs of our students

3. The “old way”
• Train students to be factory workers
• Managed by bell schedules
• Transported en masse by busses
• Inflexible curriculum
• Treat students as a group

4. The “new way”
• Diversify our approach
• Treat students as individuals
• Accept complex nature of our students’
lives
• Teach hands-on skills
• Bring experts into the classroom

5. Stretch our thinking
• Schools open 24 hrs a day
• Students start school as early as age 2 or 3
• Students start school as late as age 7 or 8
• Teaching should not be a life-long career
• Teachers should get other jobs to supplement
their pedagogy

6. Change is inevitable
• Change is happening all around us
• We can embrace the change or fight it
• We need to prepare students for their
futures
• Let’s be proactive
• Embrace the revolution!