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== INTRODUCTION == | == <font face="calibri"><b>INTRODUCTION</b></font> == | ||
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secondary_education Secondary education] is the form of education after elementary school (or [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primary_education primary education]). The age at which children start going to secondary education differs per country, from 9-12 years old. Secondary education takes the students through most of their teenage years. | [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secondary_education Secondary education] is the form of education after elementary school (or [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primary_education primary education]). The age at which children start going to secondary education differs per country, from 9-12 years old. Secondary education takes the students through most of their teenage years. | ||
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Our goal is to study and analyze secondary education,examine the present and the future utilization of technology in secondary education and eventually come up with several scenarios for the future of secondary education in 2020 | Our goal is to study and analyze secondary education,examine the present and the future utilization of technology in secondary education and eventually come up with several scenarios for the future of secondary education in 2020 | ||
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[[Questions & Answers for the future of Secondary Education in 2020]] | [[Questions & Answers for the future of Secondary Education in 2020]] | ||
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* [[The change of children playing sports to children playing videogames]] | * [[The change of children playing sports to children playing videogames]] | ||
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== <font face="calibri"><b>REFERENCES</b></font> == | |||
General information on secondary education: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secondary_education<br> | General information on secondary education: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secondary_education<br> | ||
General information on primary education: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primary_education | General information on primary education: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primary_education | ||
Revision as of 20:52, 19 March 2007
INTRODUCTION
Secondary education is the form of education after elementary school (or primary education). The age at which children start going to secondary education differs per country, from 9-12 years old. Secondary education takes the students through most of their teenage years.
The goal of secondary education is to give a lot of common knowledge and to prepare them for a next study. This can be either a higher form of secondary education or a study to learn a profession.
Our goal is to study and analyze secondary education,examine the present and the future utilization of technology in secondary education and eventually come up with several scenarios for the future of secondary education in 2020
TEAM COMPOSITION
RESEARCH
Questions & Answers for the future of Secondary Education in 2020
DRIVING FORCES
Political
Economic
- Market for Educational Technology
- Low cost of Technologies and appliances
- Continuous changes in the economy
- Families who live around the minimum-income-border
- Online Gaming Business
Social
- Increasing Human Mobility
- Technology and Young Children (Early Adoption)
- It is harder to be healthy
- Ageing problem
- Sending children to private school instead of public school
- Continuous war in the underdeveloped countries
Technological
- Technological convergence in learning
- Media rich learning
- Development of information search technology
- Communication networks (like MSN, IRC and ICQ)
Environmental
- E-paper solutions instead of paper work
- The change of children playing sports to children playing videogames
SYSTEM DIAGRAMS
SCENARIOS
Scenario 1
Scenario 2
Scenario 3
REFERENCES
General information on secondary education: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secondary_education
General information on primary education: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primary_education