What Will Education Be Like in 100 Years?

Back in 1900, author John Elfreth Watkins, Jr. published in The Ladies Home Journal a series of predictions for life in the 21st century. Watkins' many predictions, which include "How Children Will Be Taught," were discovered on Chris Wild's blog How to be a Retronaut:

A university education will be free to every man and woman. Several great national universities will have been established. Children will study a simple English grammar adapted to simplified English, and not copied after the Latin. Time will be saved by grouping like studies. Poor students will be given free board, free clothing and free books if ambitious and actually unable to meet their school and college expenses. Medical inspectors regularly visiting the public schools will furnish poor children with free eyeglasses, free dentistry, and free medical attention of every kind. The very poor will, when necessary, get free rides to and from school and free lunches between sessions. In vacation time, poor children will be taken on trips to various parts of the world. Etiquette and housekeeping will be important studies in the public schools.

We definitely have great national universities, students don't spend classroom time studying Latin anymore, and low income students have access to free breakfast, lunch, and, depending on the school district, free transportation to school. But some of Watkins' other predictions are completely off base—these days no one is talking about etiquette or housekeeping in schools. Poor students still don't have full access to glasses or dental care, and they certainly aren't taking trips to other parts of the world during their summer vacation. And, while we have great universities, they aren't free—student-loan debt continues to skyrocket.

There are plenty of ideas about what teachers and schools should be doing to educate students for the future, but it's not often that we see a concise vision for what the whole system should be striving toward. If you wrote your own version of "How Children Will Be Taught" 100 years from now, what would you include?

Hat tip: Daniel Pink. Photo via doug-johnson.squarespace.com

Correction: An earlier version of this post attributed the original story to Maria Popova. We regret the error.

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?GameBox For Facebook? Tunnels Facebook Games To The iPad

Love them or hate them, one thing holds true of Facebook games: they?re crazy addictive. So addictive, in fact, that full-grown adults are having trouble pulling themselves away from the social network, all because of a few virtual strawberries. Luckily, a new iPad app has emerged that will let you play some of your favorite Flash-based Facebook games outside where the sun shines, instead of in your musty, dark, virtual-fruit-filled room. It?s called GameBox.

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Color vulnerable to simple GPS hack, lets you spy on anyone, anywhere

Color, the $41-million-in-funding location-oriented photo sharing startup, is susceptible to simple GPS spoofing. With nothing more than a jailbroken iPad or iPhone, you can use FakeLocation to trick Color into thinking you're somewhere else. Within seconds you can be browsing photos that were snapped thousands of miles away. With a little digging, you can pore through photos not intended for your eyes.

Of course, such a hack isn't illegal as such -- every photo you take with Color is public. With FakeLocation you are simply circumventing Color's very limited location-oriented security mechanism. It does undermine Color's usefulness (and uniqueness), though -- if nefarious types can sit in their bedroom or basement and eavesdrop on classy dinner parties and wild night club soirees, people might be less inclined to share personal photos with those around them.

Fortunately, both for Color and its users, this is an easy security hole to plug -- at least in the short term. The app (or server-side) code simply checks to see if the user has 'teleported' an impossibly large distance, without any intermediate steps in between. In the long term, though, Color's users must be aware that its social graph is completely public. Color's users must realize that every photo they upload is visible by anyone, from any place.

After the break, just to elucidate a little on Color's actual business model and ultimate intention, we have two amazing quotes from Bill Nguyen, Color's founder.

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SUPERAntiSpyware 5: Big changes in a small package

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The security software has just been released, in what the authors are calling "our most significant update ever". This isn't just marketing hype, either, just about every area of the new build has been enhanced.

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Google Street View trike adds historic landmarks from Italy and France to Google Maps

Google's been busy with its pedal-powered Street View trike, going where no Street View car can reach, bringing us some of the most impressive virtual tours of significant landmarks across the globe. Now Google has made available Street View imagery of some of the most historic and impressive places in both Italy and France.

Have you ever wanted to take a look round the Colosseum in Rome which was built in 80 AD, but just haven't had the chance to jump on a jet over to Italy? Or how about the glorious Château de Fontainebleau, which has been home to French Royalty through the ages just outside of Paris in France? Well now you can make a virtual visit from the comfort of your office chair courtesy of Google Street View. While it's never going to be the same as feasting your eyes on the real thing, it's incredible to be able to take a virtual stroll through some of the world's most prestigious and fantastic landmarks.

So what are you waiting for, point your browser to Google's Street View gallery, and take a gander at some of the wonders of the world, or seek them out directly in Google Maps. Just don't let the boss catch you on your little virtual holiday.

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BlackBerry Messenger 6.0 screenshots leak

A leaked early version of RIM's upcoming BlackBerry Messenger 6 has been making the rounds since late February, but images of the new app are just now beginning to appear. Over at CrackBerry, the crew has shared a handful of images of BBM 6 in action. Unfortunately, you won't get a glimpse at a chat or file transfer -- only the profile screens (after the break) and what you see above. All that's really revealed so far is the option to set custom contact and chat colors and BlackBerry OS 6.1-style icons.

CrackBerry also warns against installing the leaked BBM 6 app. There's no guarantee this app hasn't been tampered with, and BlackBerry devices are becoming a more common target for cybercriminals.

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YC-Funded PageLever Offers Deeper Insight Into Facebook Analytics

Facebook may have droves of publishers, brands, celebrities, and other major entities using Facebook Pages, but its internal analytics product ?�Insights ?�still leaves a lot to be desired. Now Y Combinator-funded startup PageLever wants to give Pages with a large number of fans (over 10,000) tools that can help them better figure out exactly what they should be sharing with their fans. Cofounder Jeff�Widman, who was an intern at TechCrunch years ago, says that the�service has been operating quietly since January as it's ramped up its feature-set. And it's also landed some notable customers, including YouTube, Mint, and Kayak.com.

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