In the future, America will have to rescue its education system to maintain competitiveness in the global marketplace. Thank goodness we are already heading down that road. Here is what education will look like in the decades to come.
In the future, American schooling will be so much more efficient that it will be almost unrecognizable to earthlings of today. Online/distance learning will be incorporated with the latest advances in medical technology and edumetrics to produce the most well-oiled workforce in the world. Let’s take a little look into the classroom of the mid-21st century, shall we?
Each day, at 7:00am, uniformed students will arrive at the school, most likely in their parents’ SUVs. Passing through the AIT machine at the front door, their personal identification implant will be read automatically. Daily tuition voucher money will be transferred directly and instantly from the government treasury to the child’s account at Education, Inc. Excess tuition not covered by vouchers will be automatically added to the student’s tuition mortgage account. At the same time, the student’s daily medication package will be prepared by the pharmacy robot, dosages calculated by continuous behavioral observations and biometric sensors in the child’s learning station. Guards will ensure that this package is swallowed before students are allowed to proceed to their Learning Reception Centers.
All students will have assigned Learning Reception Centers based on projections made from test scores during the previous weeks. They will be separated based on previous performance, scores on aptitude tests, genetic background information, and sex. They will be prevented from entering improper Learning Reception Centers by their personal identification implant. In each Learning Reception Center the child will have its assigned Learning Station, which will consist of a chair bolted to the floor to prevent movement which may interfere with data collection. In front of the chair will be a large, newly-updated Mango® tablet computer with which the student will enter all test question answers for instantaneous data collection and analysis, done by the US Department of Education Central supercomputers, located two miles underground outside of Kearney, Nebraska, where it will be safe from nuclear threats posed by America’s competitor nations (China, India, Brazil, Finland, etc.). Next to the tablet will be a rewards dispenser. Students of the future will not need breaks for meals, as they will be distributed sufficient calories in pleasant candy rewards throughout the day, or, conversely, they will be motivated by hunger if their performance slows down. Since the chairs will have dual function as toilets, not a single second will be wasted during the school day.
In the future, nobody will complain about unequal opportunities in education, since the schools will be completely standardized throughout the country. The curriculum will be mostly STEM but will include lessons on citizenship: patriotism and the proper responsibilities of workers to their employers. Even the teaching will be completely standardized, as all teachers will broadcast out of US Department of Education Central. Only a handful of teachers will be needed for each subject this way, so teacher selection will be vastly superior to today’s method: candidates will go through a rigorous selection process much like that used to recruit astronauts today. And these elite teachers will be replaced every three years or so to keep the team young and in top form.
At 5:00 in the evening, while parents are waiting in their monster trucks to pick their children up and take them to evening classes, they will be able to read instantaneous report cards about their children for the day which will help them guide their young ones to the proper homework assignments that have been custom-tailored for each individual student to do on their Mango® home tablet computers in the hours before bedtime.
In the future, American schooling will be so much more efficient that it will be almost unrecognizable to earthlings of today. Online/distance learning will be incorporated with the latest advances in medical technology and edumetrics to produce the most well-oiled workforce in the world. Let’s take a little look into the classroom of the mid-21st century, shall we?
Each day, at 7:00am, uniformed students will arrive at the school, most likely in their parents’ SUVs. Passing through the AIT machine at the front door, their personal identification implant will be read automatically. Daily tuition voucher money will be transferred directly and instantly from the government treasury to the child’s account at Education, Inc. Excess tuition not covered by vouchers will be automatically added to the student’s tuition mortgage account. At the same time, the student’s daily medication package will be prepared by the pharmacy robot, dosages calculated by continuous behavioral observations and biometric sensors in the child’s learning station. Guards will ensure that this package is swallowed before students are allowed to proceed to their Learning Reception Centers.
All students will have assigned Learning Reception Centers based on projections made from test scores during the previous weeks. They will be separated based on previous performance, scores on aptitude tests, genetic background information, and sex. They will be prevented from entering improper Learning Reception Centers by their personal identification implant. In each Learning Reception Center the child will have its assigned Learning Station, which will consist of a chair bolted to the floor to prevent movement which may interfere with data collection. In front of the chair will be a large, newly-updated Mango® tablet computer with which the student will enter all test question answers for instantaneous data collection and analysis, done by the US Department of Education Central supercomputers, located two miles underground outside of Kearney, Nebraska, where it will be safe from nuclear threats posed by America’s competitor nations (China, India, Brazil, Finland, etc.). Next to the tablet will be a rewards dispenser. Students of the future will not need breaks for meals, as they will be distributed sufficient calories in pleasant candy rewards throughout the day, or, conversely, they will be motivated by hunger if their performance slows down. Since the chairs will have dual function as toilets, not a single second will be wasted during the school day.
In the future, nobody will complain about unequal opportunities in education, since the schools will be completely standardized throughout the country. The curriculum will be mostly STEM but will include lessons on citizenship: patriotism and the proper responsibilities of workers to their employers. Even the teaching will be completely standardized, as all teachers will broadcast out of US Department of Education Central. Only a handful of teachers will be needed for each subject this way, so teacher selection will be vastly superior to today’s method: candidates will go through a rigorous selection process much like that used to recruit astronauts today. And these elite teachers will be replaced every three years or so to keep the team young and in top form.
At 5:00 in the evening, while parents are waiting in their monster trucks to pick their children up and take them to evening classes, they will be able to read instantaneous report cards about their children for the day which will help them guide their young ones to the proper homework assignments that have been custom-tailored for each individual student to do on their Mango® home tablet computers in the hours before bedtime.
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