New School,No, this isn’t science fiction; it might be what your classroom looks like just a few years down the road,Old School, New School,No, this isn’t science fiction; it might be what your classroom looks like just a few years down the road
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TIt’s 2026: Your biology teacher is standing in front of the classroom. With a laser your teacher draws a quick sketch of the anatomy of the mouth on the SMART Board behind him. He pushes a button and out pop very real-looking three-dimensional models of the human mouth. The teacher’s assistant a short robot rolls around the classroom to pass out the models.
No this isn’t science fiction; it might be what your classroom looks like just a few years down the road. But our school system has already come pretty far since the first schools in Colonial America.
Not everyone went to school back then. If children came from wealthy homes their parents paid for tutors to homeschool them. If a family was too poor to afford to send a child to school the child stayed home and worked on the farm instead. (Are you jealous?)
The majority of children did go to school however. Students younger than six attended Dame schools — a sort of preschool in a female teacher’s home where they were taught the ABCs.
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