Will education make the grade by 2017?

Rapidly changing world sends schools searching for ways to keep pace

Economists, technology experts and health care leaders predict that the pace of change in our everyday lives, already too fast for many, will only accelerate. Within a decade, they say, educators will face a major challenge preparing the people responsible for keeping it all running.

If it’s not already a cyberworld, it’s getting closer. By 2017, the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies projects, advances in miniaturization and wireless communication mean technology will be almost invisible, but it will be pervasive, threaded throughout bedrooms, bathrooms, kitchens, living rooms and workplaces.

Schools are searching for novel ways to keep up. Quite likely, shifting demographics will mean many children won’t be going to school at all. They’ll be learning at home, instead, at a cyberschool.

This from MSNBC.