Page 2 - The future school ecosystem

due to the corroborative nature of their environment. In the same manner that
the spinning loom was considered an enemy of the proletariat during the

industrial revolution a century ago, the workers came to accept that what had
been good to them for centuries was not necessarily the best nor was it meant
to last forever.

That generation learnt it the hard way and had to adapt to new machinery.
Although careers were sacrificed, eventually the new method was accepted.

The current generation must realize that what was good for them is not
necessarily the best for the future.
Careers and professions will be sacrificed to accommodate the future school.

The use of robotic instructors is a reality that
will become a part of everyday classroom

activity, replacing traditional educators. This
calls for a re- alignment of the career
paths of future learners to be able to

perform in harmony with the machines.
The new imagined Figure 2 The 18th century spinning future school will not
loom caused career losses.
group learners according to their age

groups, in-fact the future school will not group learners according to anything. It
is expected that in the future schools will allow learners to direct their own
learning at their own pace. This is a phenomenon of open learning that is best

explained as a model that:
Embraces learning as social construction, focusses on building

interactions between learners and the online environment, and sets up
the opportunity for collaboration and co-construction of knowledge. This
moves beyond conventional approaches where learning is often an

individual and entirely corrective endeavor. (Open Learning 2018)
Groupings among the learners will emerge due to the desires of career paths

that they wish to take. The current trend of forcing learners to consume the
same kind of education because they are of a particular age group is
redundant. Learners have consistently demonstrated that they have diverse

needs and different talents which contradict the assumption of uniformity. The
future school must cater for this difference and allow freedom among learners
to explore their strengths.

Techno savvy learner centered imagined future learning ecosystems