Worldwide Education Leaders Join Forces to Predict How
Technology Will Revolutionise Teaching and Learning in Schools
European Commission describes as "Visionary" a collaborative
new book published by Cisco
LONDON, UK, September 8, 2004 - A book published today by Cisco
Systems predicts that information communication technology (ICT)
will end school education as most people know it. Essays collected
in Connected Schools suggest that one day pupils will be taught in
mixed groups of different ages and abilities as learning becomes
increasingly personalised. Teachers will take on the role of
learning companion and schools will be open online 24 hours a
day.
The 17 essays in Connected Schools present the most up-to-date
insight into the direction of education in the next decade.
Contributors* include
government ministers, academic
researchers, practitioners and students from Europe, the Middle
East, the United States, Canada and Australia, who all face
similar challenges and more or less share a common vision.
Laptop Battery Among the contributors is David Miliband, the UK minister of
state for school standards who writes: "ICT holds the potential to
drive forward a revolution in English education. I believe it can
help build a universal education system tailored to the needs and
talents of individual students."
computer marketplace in 1993, Paul moved to the US, and joined forces with Voyager Systems, a leader in imaging systems and database solutions.
Thinkpad "We produced the book so we could share the very latest thinking
in learning and teaching with other educators and policy makers,"
said Dr Michelle Selinger, editor of Connected Schools and
executive adviser on education at Cisco in Europe, the Middle East
and Africa. "These essays don't just look at the future though;
they show how technology is helping teachers to make education more
relevant to students, increasing their motivation and eagerness to
learn and involving their parents and the communities in which they
live."
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Microsoft Commenting on the book, Maruja Gutierrez-Diaz, head of
Directorate General for Education and Culture at the European
Commission in Brussels said it was "visionary". She added, "It
makes clear the need for a lucid approach to the unprecedented
possibilities open to Connected Schools and conveys a strong sense
of reality, of a future which is ours if we choose."
year career at IBM, a global information technology company where he was a member of IBM senior leadership team. There he held multiple roles, from overseeing the company worldwide competitive and server sales to leading sales, services, marketing and channel operations for IBM software business in Asia Pacific. During this time he resided in Tokyo, Japan.
Laptop Computers Mike Tomlinson, a previous chief inspector of schools in the
United Kingdom and chairman of the Working Group on 14-19 Reform
for the U.K. government said, "The key messagesappear to be that
the structures in which learning and teaching occur need to change,
that ICT has a major role to play in learning and that skills need
to be given greater emphasis."
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Laptop Computer Niki Davis, director of Iowa State Center for Technology in
Learning and Teaching and professor of ICT in Education, Institute
of Education University of London, said: "Connected Schools is an
exciting book with glimpses of the future in education. While
challenges are recognised, so are new ways of working in education
with learners engaged right from the start."
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Desktop Computer Connected Schools is third in a series of books produced by
Cisco's Internet
Business Solutions Group which
give up-to-the-minute analysis on private and public sectors by
international visionaries. Books already published are Connected
Health and Connected Cities. Connected Schools is available
priced 14, 9.99 or $19 from
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Gateway * Connected Schools List of Contributors
Dr Michelle Selinger, Executive AdviserEducation, Cisco Systems,
EMEA; Craig Jones and Kevin Smith, students, UK; Shirley Alexander,
Professor of Learning Technologies, University of Technology
Sydney, Australia; Marian Brooks, Executive Director, Cambridge
Education, UK and Eddie Brady, Principal, Unity City Academy, UK;
Manfred Wolf, Central Institute for Teacher Training and Staff
Development, Bavaria, Germany;
Dmitry Guzhelya, Director of Federation of Internet Education;
Mark Edwards, Superintendent of Schools, Enrico Country,
Virginia, US; John English, Community Superintendent, Fairfax
County, USA; Toine Maes, General Manager of Kennisnet,
Netherlands; John Anderson, Education Technology Strategy
Coordinator, Northern Ireland School Service and Jimmy Stewart,
Director of the C2K Project, Northern Ireland; Emile Cubeisy,
Project Director and Andreas Cox Program Manager, Jordan
Education Initiative, Jordan; David Miliband, Minister of State
for School Standards, Department for Education and Skills, UK;
Francois Fillon, Minister of Education, France; Lyle Oberg,
Minister of Learning, Alberta, Canada; Adam Horvath, IT advisor
to the Ministry of Education, Hungary; Ulf Lundin, Director ,
European SchoolNet, Brussels, Belgium; Alexander Yu Uvarov,
Director of the Scientific Council of Cybernetics, Academy of
Sciences, Moscow, Russia; Networking for transformation - David
Triggs, Principal, Greensward College, UK
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