The Future of Secondary Education in 2020

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.

Team Composition

• Bert Apperlo
  
• Carolyn Lopez
  
• Christian C. Schouten
  
• Konstantinos Skliris
  
• Ting Wang
  

Research

Questions for the future of Secondary Education in 2020

Driving Forces

Political

• Global Security
• Increase of spending on education
• Influence from politics on education
• Control of the Internet

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 a public/private school

Technological

• Technological convergence in learning
• Media rich learning
• Computers continue to increase in power while dropping in cost
• Development of information search technology
• Communication networks (like MSN, IRC and ICQ)

Enviromental

• E-paper solutions instead of paper work
• The change of children playing sports to children playing videogames

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