Future Shock author, Alvin Toffler, describes his vision of the School of Tomorrow in an Edutopia.org interview.
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Will Richardson, author of “Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts and Other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms” and owner of the Weblogg-ed.com, lists what our kids need in the future:

Our kids’ futures will require them to be:

• Networked–They’ll need an “outboard brain.”
• More collaborative–They are going to need to work closely with people to co-create information.
• More globally aware–Those collaborators may be anywhere in the world.
• Less dependent on paper–Right now, we are still paper training our kids.
• More active–In just about every sense of the word. Physically. Socially. Politically.
• Fluent in creating and consuming hypertext–Basic reading and writing skills will not suffice.
• More connected–To their communities, to their environments, to the world.
• Editors of information–Something we should have been teaching them all along but is even more important now.

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