Learning and Teaching in 2004: The BIG DIG

摘要

Our vision of teaching and learning ten years hence is informed by current andpast experiences of technology-using innovators within education, combined with trends outside of the educational system that drive the requirements and opportunities for learning and teaching. We illustrate key elements of our vision through a vignette that takes place in the year 2004 in metropolitan Boston. The Big Dig is a real project. Boston's Big Dig--or Central Artery Tunnel (CAT) project, as it is officially known--is the largest single civil construction project ever undertaken in the United States. The 'Big Dig' educational vignette presumes that in the mid-1990's, educators began to build a significant body of exemplary learning resources and activities based upon the Central Artery Tunnel project. Through existing and emerging educational reforms, telecommunications networks, and the evolving National Information Infrastructure (NII) an educational collaborative of teachers and learners of all ages was built.