Page 3 - The future school ecosystem

Future schools will be collaborative spaces, allowing learners to learn from
each other. The model of waiting to drink from the well of wisdom and

experience will no longer be relevant as learners will discover new knowledge
as and when they want it. The need to hear from an experienced adult will be
substituted for peer teaching, after all everyone is of the same age online.

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The future school has a dilemma as much as the 21 Century School has, that
of teaching current learners for future professions that no one yet knows. The

rate at which old professions are going extinct is alarming to the educator.

It means that learners must be redirected to

focus on the ability to think and adapt. To focus
on a particular career path for a learner in the

future school will be unheard of. The curriculum
must be adapted to train thinkers and

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disproportionate relationship between what is available at the time. This is a huge
job creation and manufacturing growth
due to technology game changer for the future school which must
be open and shy away from directing learners in a linier fashion.

How will the future school achieve the above?

The first fundamental shift in a future school will be to create the desire in
students to engage in lifelong learning. The students will have to realize that what

they learn remains relevant for a season but they need to keep learning so that
the individual remains relevant for all seasons.
The future school will not present information the same way to all learners at all

times. Diversity in presentation of data to allow different abilities in the learners to
be catered for.
The use of technology in the classroom will be complete. Educators in the future

will be trained in the art of presenting technology to the student and allowing the
student to explore and therefore learn rather than using technology to teach.

The backbone of today’s learning ecosystems, Assessment and Examination, will
be redundant in the future. Due to the nature of learning which centers on the
student, future schools will not have a use of examinations.

Techno savvy learner centered imagined future learning ecosystems