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Vision for Adult ESL Education 2019

Vision for Adult ESL Education 2019. Tom Mason EDU 505 Future of Education March, 1 2014 ”The key to the future of the world is finding optimistic stories and letting them be known.” Pete Seeger. Bronx Community College is at the center of challenges facing the U.S.

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Vision for Adult ESL Education 2019

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  1. Vision for Adult ESL Education 2019 Tom Mason EDU 505 Future of Education March, 1 2014 ”The key to the future of the world is finding optimistic stories and letting them be known.” Pete Seeger

  2. Bronx Community College is at the center of challenges facing the U.S. • The U.S. is behind 9 other nations in completion of higher education (Winning the Future (n.d.) slides 10 - 11 • 52% of jobs will require higher education by 2019 • President Obama calls for 10 million additional Associates Degrees

  3. Bronx Community College Organization BCC is comprehensive and offers over 30 academic programs on a beautiful 30-acre campus. Science. Technology and Math are an increasing emphasis Programs/ Offerings at BCC • Community Programs/ ESL and GED instruction to adults • Arts and Sciences/ Associates Degrees • Center for Sustainable Energy/ Instruction in biofuels and photovoltaics • Continuing Professional Studies/ Vocational training • Office of Instructional Technology/ Workshops and programs

  4. Scenarios Undesirable • Many physical colleges will no longer exist in 30 years • Educators must prepare students for professions that do not yet exist • Educators will not have secure positions • Teachers could be replaced by software or robots Desirable • Technology will make higher education available to all economic classes • The achievement gap will close • Technology will allow visual interaction between student to teacher from distance • Human interaction between teachers and students will be valued in physical and virtual classrooms • Environmental gains will result from less consumption of natural resources

  5. Scanning • Public Policy - Immigration reform may increase funding for ESL instruction • Economic - Affordability of MOOCs may make higher education available to all economic classes and create new wealth • Social and Demographic - Increased immigration, globalization and job growth in service fields will increase demand for English instruction • Technology – Software can allow students to proceed at individualized levels, as in gaming

  6. The technologically enhanced physical ESL classroom • Students will listen and speak in small groups. • Robotic teacher assistant will facilitate and correct. • Technology will free students and teachers to be more creative. • Technology will enhance, not subsume. • Blended physical and online classroom instruction will create synergy.

  7. The technologically enhanced physical ESL classroomDiagram

  8. Challenges and opportunities of blended education Challenges • Lack of immigration reform, funding • Literacy, education level of culturally and linguistically diverse populations (CLDs) • Subsumption in technology, addiction Opportunities • Opening of accessibility to education to disadvantaged populations and CLDs • Natural language acquisition by traditional human interaction • Creation of wealth, sustainable tax base • End of poverty? • Enhanced American global competitiveness

  9. Call to action • Seek input from community and students • Construct technologically enhanced traditional classrooms • Develop curricula that creates synergy between virtual and physical classrooms • Prepare as quickly as technology is advancing

  10. References Betts, K., et al. (2009) Re-Examining & Repositioning Higher Education: Twenty Economic and Demographic Factors Driving Online and Blended Program Enrollments Retrieved from Post University: https://post.blackboard.com/ Bushnell, D. Future(s) of Education, (n.d.) PowerPoint presentation retrieved from Post University: https://post.blackboard.com Brown, J.S. (2010) Foreword: Creating a culture of learning. In Iiyoshi, T. and Vijay Kumar,M.S. (Eds.), Opening up education. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Pres Project Tomorrow (n.d.) Learning in the 21st Century: 2009 Trends Update. Retrieved from: https://post.blackboard.com Winning the Future. (n.d.) Retrieved from: http://www.ed.gov/news/speeches/meeting-president-obamas-2020-college-completion-goal

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