Two recent news reports have signaled the displacement of human professionals with technology in high school education.
A local newspaper wrote a glowing piece about a Massachusetts high school principal who laid off the librarian and used the funds to transform the school library into a technology center.
And in its report about the demise of textbooks in an electronic age, the NY Times included this statement from the superintendent of a 500,000 student district in California: “We’re still in a brick-and-mortar, 30-students-to-1-teacher paradigm, but we need to get out of that framework to having 200 or 300 kids taking courses online, at night, 24/7, whenever they want.”
I wonder if Aldous Huxley will also be displaced in the curriculum.
