"What If"
Posted by fusionadmin on January 01 2008 20:02:03
Don't mock the future like these teacher and administrators of past centuries and decades.
Examples (there are more, so watch the video!)
1) Year 1703 - Students cannot depend on slates (over bark) to do their work.
2) Year 1815 - Students depend on paper too much (they will forget how to write on slate)
3) Year 1907- Students depend too much on ink (they will forget how to sharpent pencils with knives)
4) Year 1928 - Students depend on store-bought ink too much (they won't be able to make their own)
5) Year 1941 - Student depend too much on fountain pens...
6) Year 1950 - Ballpoint pens will be the ruin of education in this country.
7) Year 1980 - You can't use those calculators on the test.
8) Year 1995 - Why would you ever want the Internet for student use? It's just a fad.
9) Year 1995 - You don't need a web page, who's ever going to look at it.
10) Year 1996 - Teachers will never use email.
11) 1999 - Why do you want network connectivity at every teachers desk?
12) Year 1999 - What can you do with an LCD projector that you can't do with an overhead projector?
13) Year 2000 - Why are we talking about students having laptops in highschool...
14) Year 2001 - Why would I want to put my grades on the web? Who's going to look at them?
15) Year 2005 - I don't think we will ever have wireless in our school.
16) Year 2006 - Turn off and put away all Cell phone, IPODS , and electronic devices during class.
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Discovered on: http://thefischbowl.blogspot.com/2007/03/2020-vision-on-designshare.html