Threshold: Exploring the Future of Education
The Spring 2008 edition of Threshold is dedicated to the Map of Future Forces Affecting Education. In partnership with Cable in the Classroom, the edition features articles centered around the drivers of change that will have an impact on education.
You will find links to download the entire edition of the magazine, as well as opportunities to download and read each article individually.
On the threshold of change: Cable in the Classroom’s Douglas Levin and KnowledgeWorks Foundation’s Chad Wick on how education leaders can help school communities chart an effective course for the future.
If you could gain better insight into the larger societal forces that will shape public education
in the United States over the next decade, what would you do? Could you reframe
your schools" dilemmas in a different context? Would you redouble your efforts to find
promising innovations and novel ways of approaching longstanding issues? Would you engage
your school community in a dialogue focused on moving from a school envisioned on
the top–down factory or industrial model to one modeled on bottom-up open and collaborative
means of production?
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Change Agents by Barbara Diamond
From chronic diseases to religious fundamentalism, digital diversity to urban uncertainties, Barbara Diamond looks at major new forces in today’s society that are redefining and reshaping the future of education.
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Open Learning by Gary W. Matkin
Gary W. Matkin explores what open textbooks tell us about the revolution in education.
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The Future of Education: A Threshold Forum
Kevin Clark, Carl E. Harris, Charles House, Henry Kelly, and Monica Martinez discuss how technology is raising new questions about knowledge, assessment, and the role of educators.
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Options and Opportunities by Stephen Downes
Stephen Downes looks at how new technologies and demand from students and parents are spurring schools around the world to offer an increasingly diverse range of learning opportunities.
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An Explosion of Pedagogical Agents by Tim McDonald and Ted Kolderie.
Charters and other schooling alternatives give educators a much-needed chance to innovate, according to Tim McDonald and Ted Kolderie.
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Threshold: Exploring the Future of Education was created by Cable in the Classroom (CIC), the cable
industry’s education foundation, because the cable industry has a long–standing commitment to
education, in school and out. Cable in the Classroom’s mission focuses on expanding and enhancing
learning opportunities for children and youth. Created in 1989 to encourage the use of cable technology
and content in education, CIC has become a leader in education issues and research, an
advocate of media literacy, and a clearinghouse of cable and education resources for policymakers,
administrators, and teachers.
Published quarterly, the print and electronic pages of Threshold contain a range of ideas and opinions
on a common goal: putting the best human and technological resources to work for learners. Each
issue of Threshold is published in partnership with a leading national organization that can bring
expertise and diverse opinions to these pages. Previous partners include the Institute of Museum and
Library Services, the Council of Chief State School Officers, Pearson Foundation, the National School
Boards Association, the American Library Association, the National Education Association, NASA,
PTA, the Consortium for School Networking, the International Society for Technology in Education,
the National Council for the Social Studies, the State Educational Technology Directors Association,
the Council for Exceptional Children, and the Partnership for 21st Century Skills.
At www.ciconline.org/threshold, you’ll find every Threshold article posted in PDF format for browsing
or downloading. We encourage you to recommend and forward articles to friends and colleagues.
Families, caretakers, teachers, and students also should be aware of our monthly publication Cable
in the Classroom Magazine, our practical guide for classroom teachers and media and technology specialists,
which shows how cable technologies, content, and community–outreach programs can have
a positive impact whenever and wherever teaching and learning takes place–in classrooms, homes,
community centers, and libraries.
For more information on Cable in the Classroom, go to www.ciconline.org.
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