I doubt any of this will become true, personally. I think the structure of education is simply too rigid. I've been at school for 10 years and the only major change in teaching is the introduction of smart boards, and even they are seldom used. This just illustrates the point that the government simply aren't interested in radical, costly education reforms when the old, tried and tested system still works. You're predictions are a lot more likely to be true for private schools, who can fund them
2/ I really don't see the link between your first+second point and your third point. In other words, you never explain why the walls between the classrooms should be torn down.
The future will be science and arts, NO STUPID AND REPETITIVE JOBS.
Actually this is a major shift that the zeitgeist movement have been talking about and it's obvious. The repercussions of this are enormous because we will produce the majority of goods without labor and this means we can easely create a high standard of living for EVERYONE.
In fact that could be done today, but as technology develops it's becoming easier...
I "liked" your video, but I think you are wrong on two accounts. You've led teachers to believe that their jobs are secure and pay will improve. More and more students want online education from home which requires fewer "professors" and more course managers who will still be experts in the field, but don't need doctorates. You're also assuming that the extra money will go to the teachers, but instead it will go to the students. I.E. tuitions will be reduced instead of salaries higher.
Maybe by 2100, the bulk of society will work on innovation and creation. But remember ow the invention of Calculus happened at the same time independently? That's going to start happening a lot. Copyright law is going to have to REALLY change.
I love how many people are correcting him in the comments... He's not giving out some rigid set of predictions that are perfect and exclusively going to come true. He's giving out *ideas*. The very premise of his lecture: ideas.
The fact of the matter is that physical labor is becoming less common, the educational system is becoming outdated, and internet is spreading and growing. All of these things will coincide and they will force change. Perhaps not good change, but they will happen.
i think i prefer having like 1 student to a class of 12 compared to 3 teachers to a class of 70 I guess its partially down to i think having over 70 people in one room is bordering on ridiculous, 70 people talking/working/studying is going to make A LOT of noise and i just don't think that's a good learning environment.
You seem to be missing the diversity/minority piece in your ending comments. A meritocracy is not automatically a good thing, except in a utopia. The problem currently is that groups are marginalized by the system -- people are stuck in poverty, often through no fault of their own. They don't gain the merit required for a meritocracy, because they are never given the opportunity to do so. Many of the changes you talk about will come first only to the rich, causing even more inequality.
@dwood2001 Well,he first said he expect education to be a lot more accessible,and he is talking about an academic meritocracy,not meritocracy on the level of basic services(that everyone should have access to). The changes he talks about are expected to come with the democratization of education and knowledge for the whole world,not only for the riches.
@dwood2001 Well,he first said he expect education to be a lot more accessible,and he is talking about an academic meritocracy,not meritocracy on the level of basic services(that everyone should have access to without conditions). The changes he talks about are expected to come with the democratization of education and knowledge for the whole world,not only for the riches.
My technology teacher has a go at your own pace approach. The problem is that students simply don't do their work. This model works for me and many others, but perhaps a majority of students don't care enough for that system to function properly
Those ideas are interesting but for the huge classrooms to work the kids have to be both: A.) Behaved and B.) Motivated. Unfortunately I don't see that happening...
I hope educations is more creative and practical for sure because from being in college note taking and trying to remember everything from my class has proven too difficult for most students, i see students struggling with essays and i did too, non of us can ever live up to our full potential until education is made hands on and more fun for everyone. I do not think governments will let this happen though just to stay in power and keeping us from knowing more than them.
Khan Academy, though a great esource for learning materials is obviously massively removed from a classroom. I'm commenting on the first 5 mins because I couldn't watch further.
@phoenixsuns101 Kahn Academy is directly involved in several schools, k-12, working directly with teachers, to teach kids. They are seeing great results.
Interesting but total bullshit... we have no idea how likely any of this is to happen and in what form. The only thing we know for sure is that it's probably not like described.
@tonybeir you can't say something is bullshit if you go on with "having no idea" duh ... that creates possibilities ... also, it's pointless to say "we know for SURE, that it's PROBABLY blah blah blah" think before being all contradictory and stuff ...
10 years to a complete revolution of the educational system? Yeah, try telling universities that lectures are passe. You might as well tell an oil exec they should accept that alternative energy sources are the future.
Furthermore, I don't think the proposed system is necessarily better. It really depends on the individual.
It's stupid to think the new system will be better. Humans are all different, and both systems fail to provide for students that do not neccessarily thrive in those environments.
@ESAMMEX perhaps, but it seems to me that the "prediction" system, gives proper experience to what is actually expected and valued in the work environnement, whereas the first is all theorical, and almost nothing pratical. I believe if you thrive in the first, and can't do anything in the second, then you're not going to be of much interest to any company.
We have to make the Education field more accretive, so we get the most intelligent people educating the next generation, instead of flooding the market with business and engineering majors.
Master lvl educators do receive a good wage, as they should, but it’s becoming more and more difficult to get ppl to want to go into Education, because the starting salary isn’t very attractive. Those with strong backgrounds in math and science tend to go after better paying jobs. Those who do go into Education tend to “burnout” after about 5 years, for many reasons, one of which is the pay.
It is difficult enough to get one student interested and active in learning. It’s even harder when you get a bunch of them in one class together. I'd love to see more money going into Education, but politicians don't see eye to eye with me. Schools make a bit more than 10k per student, but not much, and much of that money doesn't exactly go in to the student’s education.
I like you're presentation style and I agree with some of what you've said, but I just don't see some of these things happening, or happening is such a grand way. I'd love to see lecture halls reduced in size, but I don't see them becoming near obsolete anytime soon. I can see the "creative" field increasing, but not out numbering the other two classes. I like the 3 teachers to a larger class idea, for higher lvl courses, but not in K-10 areas at all.
What about all the people who just want to do drugs and live off government funds?
Also, I am really hoping that China has some major political reforms soon; after that I am sure many countries will follow. (of course the only way for all of us to be equal is to have robots do everything {think WALLE})
@GeekinsteinTutorials If robots did everything .... we would become lazy (just like the people in Wall-E) Man-kind would be doomed. If you have robots do everything, millions of people will lose jobs. People have to do work. We become lazy, unproductive and dumb if different people don't do different things like mechnical work, etc etc
@GeekinsteinTutorials I agree with MrGameBoy. If robots take all the jobs, then there will be no need for a human to get in education in order to get a job. Everyone would go uneducated because school would become redundant. Human health would drop too - why go out for a stroll in the park when you can put on some glasses and have the virtual simulation of being in one.
@PixelDeath9 Although, perhaps we could create robots that will have jobs such as milkmen, or binmen, to give people incentives to get a good education for an actual job, and completely revamp the benefits system whereby only disabled people who are unable to get a job, and if somebody was deprived of a good education as a child, then there should be some way of giving them the education they deserve, and will get benefits. (Basically, if you didn't bother listening in class, tough luck).
Well done Sal! In my opinion you should be the leader of future educational system change. And I will gladly support you and follow right behind your footsteps into a bright and glorious future!
obviously these are just predictions but i assume that it does at least have some truth to it though i think some of this is just what people wish it was right now rather than what it will actually be. absolutely fascinating. thanks for making this video :D
I know that no one will probably read this but.... I have a dream, a dream to someday be like Freddiew, Corridor Digital, or even Pwnisher. A dream that I could have an audience. A dream to be the next big thing. Make my dream reality and please come to my channel! I'm not asking for much. I'm open for any kinds of things you think I should change.
i just realised something else, this is OVERTLY optimistic, i'm thinking maybe there will be a boost in the educated population. 2011 - 2060 = 3 new young generations. btw i'll be 69!!
wow i just realised something, this is sort of the thing the zeitgeist movement was talking about. reducing physical labour with the use of robots and machines.
If we go to creative like you predict then I would think that there would have to be a massive shift in values and lifestyles of the general population. I think this would lead to a massive shift in societies and governments. The future sounds scary. I hope humanity rises to the challenge in a way that benefits more than a select few.
On a brighter note, some of us are already creating classrooms like that. Also, in some countries like Finland education careers are already prestigious...So I agree with sal.great
Predictions which are already becoming realities. If our world survives long enough and we
Can learn to be sustainable and friendly, then i see this becoming a norm. Big Ifs though...
I know sal was focusing on education, but this is a wonderful optimistic view when you throw other quite expectable predictions like energy crisis, environmental disasters, epidemics/famine, capitalistic implosion, and political unrest into the mix. Realistically, we will be lucky to survive the century.
We can only hope technology, literacy, and creativity will truly find solutions for these problems before they drown us.
what country(ies) do you think will pioneer these changes???
also, i think the traditional school/ classroom setting kinda forces the student to learn . there could be a lack of drive and diligence if students learn from the home etc. on the computer
the transition to being judged on what you tangibly produce sounds so interesting. i'm from the UK and there is too much emphasis on grades and testing. this has now led to teaching being orientated around exams rather than actually learning the content and true meaning of a subject. youth unemployment is at a record high and most youths are leaving school without the most basic of education. the politicians in the UK lack innovation and are stuck in traditional, pen and paper based learning
The role of teachers will will change, but it won't increase. Artificial intelligence systems will be able to plan, present and track student progress and development more accurately and efficiently. That and open source initiatives such as your videos here on Youtube will further erode the formal classroom setting.
Also, the distinction between learning and working will continue to blur. To 'attend school' or to work for an advanced company will include both, learning, and working.
@jumb0mumb0 I don't think it's a cliche. Just a very difficult and complicated problem yet to be conquered but that humanity is capable of. It kills astounding amounts of people, there's nothing cliche about seeing the value in curing cancer.
What you think and what is are two completely different things. The first fundamental problem with saying "find the cure for cancer" is that there are many different types of cancers depending on where it is in the body and a whole host of other characteristics. Go back to sleep. Next!
@jumb0mumb0 I am well aware of this, and I was talking about cancer as a category. You have done nothing to refute me. "Go back to sleep". "Next!" You aren't intimidating at all, your condescension is a disservice to you.
Your false beliefs are irrelvant and groundless regarding the excessive use of the phrase "to find a cure for cancer" and not to mention just how incorrect the phrase itself stands. I'm finished with you. And all I was saying was that you to should do the world a favor and go back to sleep, that's all!
@jumb0mumb0 I was well aware of the fact that cancer is a category of things, requiring many different angles of attack. You entirely assumed I didn't know. Here's a hint: for insults to work, they have to be relevant to the person somehow.
I hope you are simply in a lousy mood or something, otherwise you have the emotional maturity of a snarly teenager. I posted politely and, in fact, knowing cancer is complex. You instantly descended to a mental pissing contest.
I love what Sal is doing and I think this might be what is needed to break up the public school/union monopoly. I suspect Sal has many, many enemies in the education establishment and will be dragged into the politics of education sooner rather than later. Good luck.
I do have one concern...I know Sal's focus is math and science, but I think Humanities is just as important and all students need to learn history, philosophy, econ, arts, etc. They are just as important.
Great thoughts but I am afraid they may not come to fruition. They tried the "active/discovery" classroom back in the 70s. Schools had big rooms with no separate classrooms. Students were allowed to let the innate inquisitiveness guide them. What happened? The students wasted their time, did not learn and walls and podiums were quickly put back up.
@joshuawine I remember this. My elementary in 1976 was newly built with what they called the "open concept" model. No walls.."rooms" were divided by bookcases. I just remember we couldn't talk too much because it would get too loud and we would disturb other "classes" around us.
That school now has actual rooms built. No more "open concept".
The one problem with all of this is taxes and funding. Many people will not be willing to fund an indefinitely long time-variable education. Heck, as it is, some crazy people don't think we should have public schools! However, I can see this at least becoming a powerful model for universities, if not all education.
@TheHdulcimerguy hopefully- costs will go down dramatically as technology increases- Khan Academy has already delivered nearly 100 million high-quality lessons remotely and for free. Naturally, there will be some things that you would need a teacher to be present for, but it will free up more time for personalized attention as opposed to lecturing the the teacher might not even understand 100%.
@ploy3snoy I doubt the 1984 scenario extremely, we've already gone through that phase in a lot of countries, for example the old Soviet Union. A more likely world is what Huxley proposed in his book A brave new world.
@MrJuggy2009 They really should - now whatever you think of the Conservative Party, we can all agree that they like cutting costs (or should I say, funding?). Now I don't think that's a good reason to undertake something like this, but it's true that incorporating Khan Academy videos and tuition aids will SAVE government money.
@bearchildofdeath the conservative party doesn't cut funding for the sake of cutting funding. The conservative (or Republican) party believes the government is ineffecient in managing anything and waste money with little to no results. Take Wash D.C school system for example...they spend $23K/yr per child and have the worst school system in the country. Private schools in DC produce better results with lower cost. This is why Republicans want school choice.
This model assumes that progress is inexorable--it just happens irrespective of political-economic conditions. That assumption is false. If one were to look at the Roman Empire just after the birth of Christ, one would assume they would have continued to progress, but the opposite occurred: we got the Christian Dark Ages.
I have to say that it is funny to see this. I'm studying Game development in Amsterdam. And well Our class is like that. I give lessens to other students, wel have more than one teacher in the clas who are teaching each other. And students are also teaching our teachers.
Maybe it is becouse the world of technology is groing so fast.
You can know every program language for web and game perfectly.
Let me give you an exemple. In our clase we have a free choise of program language. The teachers teach us PHP and AS3 and all the do's and the don'ts. We students teach them some HTML5, C#, C++, JS and more. Now they know what you can do in HTML5 and we know how to program.
(Its a simple exemple, but i'm sure you get the picture.)
@yannbane I make my games in JS but some say it isn't the right language because it is a higer level. But my opinion is that poeple wont make a new level is it isn't better ^^
And HTML5 is sweet indeed. If i see what studens made in it, it just WOW!
@IndustrialFaustXVII Nah, they have no idea. Computers are so fast people wont even notice a difference in speed, and a higher level language helps you express your creativity, rather than manage memory and worry about pointers!
@yannbane Computers are fast indeed. But smartphones using a single ARM chip or in case of the iPhone 4S 2 ARM chips. And if yo can make the code more dinamic you can save some seconds in loading time and rune time. That can make a big difference.
It's easy to see it in infinity blade 2. That game is made for a dubbel ARM. I can run it in my iPod. But it fails when there are things running in the background.
At the very end of the video it almost sounded like you were saying in the future everything we do will be monitored and evaluated by computer algorithms which will determine what educational resources we receive and what career we will pursue.
yes i would really like to see this, but i doubt it will happen unless some big event will shift peoples minds... they just hang on the old systems sooo much... but i hope i am wrong
I agree that we're headed in this direction. It's an emergent property because I perceived some of the same changes almost to the T, just based on the logical reasoning of where we're at socially and technologically. We just need to influence the damaging impacts of government and political impediments as well as issues with scarcity and we're there!
Very interesting. In my field it is kind of this way already.. In Animation you get hired based on your demo reel. . whether it is a modelling, animation or rigging or Special FX reel. . you get hired based on that and not on your academic credentials. And you upgrade your skills by studying "Khan Academy" style online tutorials. . like Digital Tutors.
Very interesting video. I recently watched the movie "Transcendent Man" and while not immediately related to any of this, It really made me sit down and think about our future. Where ARE we headed? hopefully somewhere people have more emphasis on learning and discovering, and not total nuclear destruction! -Byron
also this doesn't account for corruption. the ppl with money can bribe the better and brighter teachers to take their children as apprentices or awarding them achievements.
You're idealistic about the lecture hall becoming obsolete; higher education is a business and education is a secondary priority. Universities will have a hard time justifying their tuition fees if their 'product' is available to anyone with an internet connection.
We've seen the negative impact of technology in schools where students can plagiarise wikipedia or rely on their gadgets to avoid thinking.
Also a project portfolio won't get you interviews, a degree from a brick building will.
Well my college has applied this system and it works. I paid my local college... they provided me with a user name a lecturer and a website. From that I am given weekly projects to complete. I can upload my work at nearly any time rather than tight deadlines we see in some education systems. And only I and my classmates can assess the site.
Also its false that people can simply copy from wiki. The college has a system that can read any word file and find plagiarised material.
@revron77 "I paid my local college... they provided me with a user name a lecturer and a website"
So why pay for something that you could have gotten for free? Sounds like a cheap way for a college to make money with little effort.
Anyone can google 'calculus' and learn at least some of it. But the quality of learning will pale in comparison to that of a real classroom, surrounded by real students. There's a spontaneity in the classroom that you cannot get from just a textbook or a website.
@revron77 " I can upload my work at nearly any time rather than tight deadlines we see in some education systems"
And that's another problem with this system. The real world doesn't work that way. In a real business, deadlines are set and have to be met, wether you feel like it not.
I have obtained more knowledge about my subjects in college than I have in school. The change within the classroom has made it more easy for me to obtain information and as a result i've gained from the experience.
And its just not that. Making it accessable from a computer means I can present my work at anytime within the limit the tutor has set from nearly any position in the world.
Its far better than a closed off environment that is limited in its ability.
@revron77 "The college has a system that can read any word file and find plagiarised material."
So your college has knowledge of every single relevant website and book and can spot copies? Don't believe it! In a proper college, your teacher will be familiar enough with your work to differentiate between your work and someone elses. Machines can be cheated.
God I hope you are right.. but honestly I think you have way too high of hopes for mankind
bkhex 1 week ago
I doubt any of this will become true, personally. I think the structure of education is simply too rigid. I've been at school for 10 years and the only major change in teaching is the introduction of smart boards, and even they are seldom used. This just illustrates the point that the government simply aren't interested in radical, costly education reforms when the old, tried and tested system still works. You're predictions are a lot more likely to be true for private schools, who can fund them
JonnyVincent1 1 week ago
EUREKA!
seethebob 1 week ago
This already exists, they are called BTEC's...
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Great video. However:
1/"Standar" is spelled "standard", hehe
2/ I really don't see the link between your first+second point and your third point. In other words, you never explain why the walls between the classrooms should be torn down.
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The future will be science and arts, NO STUPID AND REPETITIVE JOBS.
Actually this is a major shift that the zeitgeist movement have been talking about and it's obvious. The repercussions of this are enormous because we will produce the majority of goods without labor and this means we can easely create a high standard of living for EVERYONE.
In fact that could be done today, but as technology develops it's becoming easier...
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GodEquals3 1 week ago
What you're saying at around 12 mins is how my Uni course is taught
CardboardBread 1 week ago
I "liked" your video, but I think you are wrong on two accounts. You've led teachers to believe that their jobs are secure and pay will improve. More and more students want online education from home which requires fewer "professors" and more course managers who will still be experts in the field, but don't need doctorates. You're also assuming that the extra money will go to the teachers, but instead it will go to the students. I.E. tuitions will be reduced instead of salaries higher.
aviationman77 1 week ago
You've put into words (and pictures) what I've been thinking for months now. Thanks, Sal!!
mooseythejuiceman 1 week ago
Pessimistic 2060: We run out of oil and society has collapsed D:
Optimistic 2060 Direct digital to organic lesson downloads FTW! :D
TheRepublicOfUngeria 1 week ago
multiple teachers in a class is a stupendous idea!!! We'll have to break through the individual ego of lecturers first :D
WxMan18 1 week ago
Maybe by 2100, the bulk of society will work on innovation and creation. But remember ow the invention of Calculus happened at the same time independently? That's going to start happening a lot. Copyright law is going to have to REALLY change.
TacticusPrime 2 weeks ago
are you from Kahn acadamy?
yazichima 2 weeks ago
@yazichima derp... my bad
yazichima 2 weeks ago
does this include changes to the social sciences clasrooms
ddiimmee 2 weeks ago
i'm sorry but get 75 students in one class and you have something harder to control than a nuclear leakage, A NOISY CLASS.
and three teachers in a class will definitely contradict a little confusing students starting jokes, and ultimately: A NOISY CLASS
Y0USS3Fw5alas 2 weeks ago
@Y0USS3Fw5alas The students would be "isolated" by their computer interface. Noise would be less of an issue when few people are physically speaking.
TacticusPrime 2 weeks ago
I love how many people are correcting him in the comments... He's not giving out some rigid set of predictions that are perfect and exclusively going to come true. He's giving out *ideas*. The very premise of his lecture: ideas.
The fact of the matter is that physical labor is becoming less common, the educational system is becoming outdated, and internet is spreading and growing. All of these things will coincide and they will force change. Perhaps not good change, but they will happen.
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I see a darker vision of 2060 from all the things that have been going on...
In addition...
Cure for cancer!? The money is in the treatment not the cure..
They will have the cure for the very important elites and the rest of the population will have to take a pill to keep it at bay till they die...
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i think i prefer having like 1 student to a class of 12 compared to 3 teachers to a class of 70 I guess its partially down to i think having over 70 people in one room is bordering on ridiculous, 70 people talking/working/studying is going to make A LOT of noise and i just don't think that's a good learning environment.
PtOrangEstudios 2 weeks ago
@PtOrangEstudios and a class of 200 to one lecturer is better? Besides much of this can be done online meaning no ambient niose.
baronvonsnipeyou 2 weeks ago
Why does he put a line above time and high?
MagnetiXofficial 2 weeks ago
You seem to be missing the diversity/minority piece in your ending comments. A meritocracy is not automatically a good thing, except in a utopia. The problem currently is that groups are marginalized by the system -- people are stuck in poverty, often through no fault of their own. They don't gain the merit required for a meritocracy, because they are never given the opportunity to do so. Many of the changes you talk about will come first only to the rich, causing even more inequality.
dwood2001 2 weeks ago
@dwood2001 Remember that the rich-poor gap is currently increasing, not decreasing.
dwood2001 2 weeks ago
@dwood2001 Well,he first said he expect education to be a lot more accessible,and he is talking about an academic meritocracy,not meritocracy on the level of basic services(that everyone should have access to). The changes he talks about are expected to come with the democratization of education and knowledge for the whole world,not only for the riches.
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@dwood2001 Well,he first said he expect education to be a lot more accessible,and he is talking about an academic meritocracy,not meritocracy on the level of basic services(that everyone should have access to without conditions). The changes he talks about are expected to come with the democratization of education and knowledge for the whole world,not only for the riches.
schok51 1 week ago
My technology teacher has a go at your own pace approach. The problem is that students simply don't do their work. This model works for me and many others, but perhaps a majority of students don't care enough for that system to function properly
austininflorida 2 weeks ago
Those ideas are interesting but for the huge classrooms to work the kids have to be both: A.) Behaved and B.) Motivated. Unfortunately I don't see that happening...
jmomm 2 weeks ago
i like the prtfulio as your transript, as a web disigner i use things i have done in school in everyday life, and give it out as my resime
snowfootkitty 2 weeks ago
Good predictions I believe, though the presentation on the black screen was tiering to watch. Like looking at a picture filtered to be negative.
eeehrenberg 2 weeks ago
I hope educations is more creative and practical for sure because from being in college note taking and trying to remember everything from my class has proven too difficult for most students, i see students struggling with essays and i did too, non of us can ever live up to our full potential until education is made hands on and more fun for everyone. I do not think governments will let this happen though just to stay in power and keeping us from knowing more than them.
emmabee11 2 weeks ago
Khan Academy, though a great esource for learning materials is obviously massively removed from a classroom. I'm commenting on the first 5 mins because I couldn't watch further.
phoenixsuns101 2 weeks ago
@phoenixsuns101 Kahn Academy is directly involved in several schools, k-12, working directly with teachers, to teach kids. They are seeing great results.
Williamdeanarmstrong 2 weeks ago
Homeschoolers already do this :D
0Gabbathehut0 2 weeks ago
Interesting but total bullshit... we have no idea how likely any of this is to happen and in what form. The only thing we know for sure is that it's probably not like described.
tonybeir 2 weeks ago
@tonybeir you can't say something is bullshit if you go on with "having no idea" duh ... that creates possibilities ... also, it's pointless to say "we know for SURE, that it's PROBABLY blah blah blah" think before being all contradictory and stuff ...
MomoHasMuffins 2 weeks ago
theres already a robot that makes toast
flyclaudiafly 2 weeks ago
Achievement unlocked: Read music
HamsterAtDawn 2 weeks ago
"Hopefully... if things go well." Yeah, that won't happen.
Dennis Meadows. Look him up.
samhamels 2 weeks ago
@samhamels "The pie will have gotten so much bigger." SIGH
samhamels 2 weeks ago
10 years to a complete revolution of the educational system? Yeah, try telling universities that lectures are passe. You might as well tell an oil exec they should accept that alternative energy sources are the future.
Furthermore, I don't think the proposed system is necessarily better. It really depends on the individual.
XinBiDe 2 weeks ago
this guy sounds like tom hanks
lareina10dsouza 2 weeks ago
Towards the beginning of the video:
It's stupid to think the new system will be better. Humans are all different, and both systems fail to provide for students that do not neccessarily thrive in those environments.
ESAMMEX 2 weeks ago
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@ESAMMEX perhaps, but it seems to me that the "prediction" system, gives proper experience to what is actually expected and valued in the work environnement, whereas the first is all theorical, and almost nothing pratical. I believe if you thrive in the first, and can't do anything in the second, then you're not going to be of much interest to any company.
Alkhoren 2 weeks ago
at about 7 minuits in Life Becomes Wow
DjWepe 2 weeks ago
We have to make the Education field more accretive, so we get the most intelligent people educating the next generation, instead of flooding the market with business and engineering majors.
WoWDart 2 weeks ago
Master lvl educators do receive a good wage, as they should, but it’s becoming more and more difficult to get ppl to want to go into Education, because the starting salary isn’t very attractive. Those with strong backgrounds in math and science tend to go after better paying jobs. Those who do go into Education tend to “burnout” after about 5 years, for many reasons, one of which is the pay.
WoWDart 2 weeks ago
It is difficult enough to get one student interested and active in learning. It’s even harder when you get a bunch of them in one class together. I'd love to see more money going into Education, but politicians don't see eye to eye with me. Schools make a bit more than 10k per student, but not much, and much of that money doesn't exactly go in to the student’s education.
WoWDart 2 weeks ago
I like you're presentation style and I agree with some of what you've said, but I just don't see some of these things happening, or happening is such a grand way. I'd love to see lecture halls reduced in size, but I don't see them becoming near obsolete anytime soon. I can see the "creative" field increasing, but not out numbering the other two classes. I like the 3 teachers to a larger class idea, for higher lvl courses, but not in K-10 areas at all.
WoWDart 2 weeks ago
This seems very optimistic, but I hope you're dead right about it. The only painful part is that I missed out on being young when this is instated.
Alexfantastico26 2 weeks ago
somehow this seems like a form of communism
plumpkinator 2 weeks ago
thumbs up if your here from crashcourse!
SuperRustyTrumbone 2 weeks ago 291
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What about all the people who just want to do drugs and live off government funds?
Also, I am really hoping that China has some major political reforms soon; after that I am sure many countries will follow. (of course the only way for all of us to be equal is to have robots do everything {think WALLE})
GeekinsteinTutorials 2 weeks ago
@GeekinsteinTutorials If robots did everything .... we would become lazy (just like the people in Wall-E) Man-kind would be doomed. If you have robots do everything, millions of people will lose jobs. People have to do work. We become lazy, unproductive and dumb if different people don't do different things like mechnical work, etc etc
MrGameboy0895 2 weeks ago
@GeekinsteinTutorials I agree with MrGameBoy. If robots take all the jobs, then there will be no need for a human to get in education in order to get a job. Everyone would go uneducated because school would become redundant. Human health would drop too - why go out for a stroll in the park when you can put on some glasses and have the virtual simulation of being in one.
PixelDeath9 2 weeks ago
@PixelDeath9 Although, perhaps we could create robots that will have jobs such as milkmen, or binmen, to give people incentives to get a good education for an actual job, and completely revamp the benefits system whereby only disabled people who are unable to get a job, and if somebody was deprived of a good education as a child, then there should be some way of giving them the education they deserve, and will get benefits. (Basically, if you didn't bother listening in class, tough luck).
PixelDeath9 2 weeks ago
Well done Sal! In my opinion you should be the leader of future educational system change. And I will gladly support you and follow right behind your footsteps into a bright and glorious future!
Diomedsspear 3 weeks ago
Muito legal
welitonatleta 3 weeks ago
I grew up in extreme poverty and government welfare, now I'm a straight A college student. This man speaks the truth towards the end of the video.
brownskyn6 3 weeks ago 35
@brownskyn6 …but not a college with course vigour comparative to that in other countries…
Unless, you attend Cornell, Harvard, or Cal Tech, none of which a welfare fag like you could ever attend.
PolitcalIslam 2 weeks ago
nice vid Sal!
Airjordany2k 3 weeks ago
obviously these are just predictions but i assume that it does at least have some truth to it though i think some of this is just what people wish it was right now rather than what it will actually be. absolutely fascinating. thanks for making this video :D
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towelie86 3 weeks ago
Learning Practical is much more important then just listening and noting drafting.I total agree, thank you salman ji...
annantasource 3 weeks ago
Too sad this video stops playing to me at 03:57. >.<
SemanticField 3 weeks ago
my kids have a bright future when they are my age.
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TheSickTV 1 month ago
i just realised something else, this is OVERTLY optimistic, i'm thinking maybe there will be a boost in the educated population. 2011 - 2060 = 3 new young generations. btw i'll be 69!!
halflifeproductionz 1 month ago
wow i just realised something, this is sort of the thing the zeitgeist movement was talking about. reducing physical labour with the use of robots and machines.
halflifeproductionz 1 month ago
Sal if you keep this up, it will be a crime if you don't win the Nobel prize
sleepyhead7391 1 month ago
@sleepyhead7391 Agreed.^^
SemanticField 3 weeks ago
@sleepyhead7391 but im worried that there's no nobel prize for what he has been doing, probably some other big prizes that he deserves.
SemanticField 3 weeks ago
If we go to creative like you predict then I would think that there would have to be a massive shift in values and lifestyles of the general population. I think this would lead to a massive shift in societies and governments. The future sounds scary. I hope humanity rises to the challenge in a way that benefits more than a select few.
austincm18 1 month ago
i used to watch this in 2060, but then i took an arrow to the knee
lianeardo 1 month ago
@lianeardo That lacks both sense and humour. :/
PixelDeath9 2 weeks ago
On a brighter note, some of us are already creating classrooms like that. Also, in some countries like Finland education careers are already prestigious...So I agree with sal.great
Predictions which are already becoming realities. If our world survives long enough and we
Can learn to be sustainable and friendly, then i see this becoming a norm. Big Ifs though...
scienceclassisgreat 1 month ago
I know sal was focusing on education, but this is a wonderful optimistic view when you throw other quite expectable predictions like energy crisis, environmental disasters, epidemics/famine, capitalistic implosion, and political unrest into the mix. Realistically, we will be lucky to survive the century.
We can only hope technology, literacy, and creativity will truly find solutions for these problems before they drown us.
scienceclassisgreat 1 month ago
Number 2 and 3: Have you been in a Scientology classroom. It's exactly like that.
gininigin 1 month ago
Thought the world was gonna end in 2012?
chtadow13 2 months ago
I predict high permanent unemployment due to automation/AI(we could be seeing this now in UK and US).
TheGstar1985 2 months ago
You are too optmistic khan.
kaduva12 2 months ago
see you in 2060 then khan!
hellblazer9261 2 months ago
what country(ies) do you think will pioneer these changes???
also, i think the traditional school/ classroom setting kinda forces the student to learn . there could be a lack of drive and diligence if students learn from the home etc. on the computer
naruto2710 2 months ago
the transition to being judged on what you tangibly produce sounds so interesting. i'm from the UK and there is too much emphasis on grades and testing. this has now led to teaching being orientated around exams rather than actually learning the content and true meaning of a subject. youth unemployment is at a record high and most youths are leaving school without the most basic of education. the politicians in the UK lack innovation and are stuck in traditional, pen and paper based learning
naruto2710 2 months ago
The role of teachers will will change, but it won't increase. Artificial intelligence systems will be able to plan, present and track student progress and development more accurately and efficiently. That and open source initiatives such as your videos here on Youtube will further erode the formal classroom setting.
Also, the distinction between learning and working will continue to blur. To 'attend school' or to work for an advanced company will include both, learning, and working.
Peopleunit 2 months ago
@Peopleunit Interesting ideas
TheGstar1985 2 months ago
15:35 Surprised Sal used the cliché "find the cure for cancer"
No disrespect intended
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jumb0mumb0 2 months ago
@jumb0mumb0 I don't think it's a cliche. Just a very difficult and complicated problem yet to be conquered but that humanity is capable of. It kills astounding amounts of people, there's nothing cliche about seeing the value in curing cancer.
Jotto999 2 months ago
@Jotto999
What you think and what is are two completely different things. The first fundamental problem with saying "find the cure for cancer" is that there are many different types of cancers depending on where it is in the body and a whole host of other characteristics. Go back to sleep. Next!
jumb0mumb0 2 months ago
@jumb0mumb0 I am well aware of this, and I was talking about cancer as a category. You have done nothing to refute me. "Go back to sleep". "Next!" You aren't intimidating at all, your condescension is a disservice to you.
Jotto999 2 months ago
@Jotto999
Your false beliefs are irrelvant and groundless regarding the excessive use of the phrase "to find a cure for cancer" and not to mention just how incorrect the phrase itself stands. I'm finished with you. And all I was saying was that you to should do the world a favor and go back to sleep, that's all!
jumb0mumb0 2 months ago
@jumb0mumb0 You're right, we have nothing to discuss, I hate your obnoxious presumptions anyway.
Jotto999 2 months ago
@Jotto999
It's better to love than to hate but I suppose you're oblivious to most everything. :)
jumb0mumb0 2 months ago
@jumb0mumb0 I was well aware of the fact that cancer is a category of things, requiring many different angles of attack. You entirely assumed I didn't know. Here's a hint: for insults to work, they have to be relevant to the person somehow.
I hope you are simply in a lousy mood or something, otherwise you have the emotional maturity of a snarly teenager. I posted politely and, in fact, knowing cancer is complex. You instantly descended to a mental pissing contest.
How sad :)
Jotto999 1 month ago
@Jotto999
"Different angles of attack" Bahahaha, you sure sound like you know what you're talking about!!
jumb0mumb0 1 month ago
I love what Sal is doing and I think this might be what is needed to break up the public school/union monopoly. I suspect Sal has many, many enemies in the education establishment and will be dragged into the politics of education sooner rather than later. Good luck.
I do have one concern...I know Sal's focus is math and science, but I think Humanities is just as important and all students need to learn history, philosophy, econ, arts, etc. They are just as important.
ramrants 2 months ago
Great thoughts but I am afraid they may not come to fruition. They tried the "active/discovery" classroom back in the 70s. Schools had big rooms with no separate classrooms. Students were allowed to let the innate inquisitiveness guide them. What happened? The students wasted their time, did not learn and walls and podiums were quickly put back up.
joshuawine 2 months ago
@joshuawine I remember this. My elementary in 1976 was newly built with what they called the "open concept" model. No walls.."rooms" were divided by bookcases. I just remember we couldn't talk too much because it would get too loud and we would disturb other "classes" around us.
That school now has actual rooms built. No more "open concept".
ramrants 2 months ago
Yeah sadly things happen to get worse over time not better :/
TheWeirdTechGuy 2 months ago
The one problem with all of this is taxes and funding. Many people will not be willing to fund an indefinitely long time-variable education. Heck, as it is, some crazy people don't think we should have public schools! However, I can see this at least becoming a powerful model for universities, if not all education.
TheHdulcimerguy 2 months ago
@TheHdulcimerguy hopefully- costs will go down dramatically as technology increases- Khan Academy has already delivered nearly 100 million high-quality lessons remotely and for free. Naturally, there will be some things that you would need a teacher to be present for, but it will free up more time for personalized attention as opposed to lecturing the the teacher might not even understand 100%.
timfwater 2 months ago
English, Art, and Music students have known this model for ages now. *glances at portfolio*
lovegoodbyes 2 months ago
good predictions man, in my opinion, money must go, 1984 is a real danger
what if artificial intelligence enhancements become available to only who ever can pay up?
then maybe eventually the poor would evolve in another way while the rich would evolve another way and wed have two different race groups! YAIX!!
ploy3snoy 2 months ago
@ploy3snoy I doubt the 1984 scenario extremely, we've already gone through that phase in a lot of countries, for example the old Soviet Union. A more likely world is what Huxley proposed in his book A brave new world.
Lulzalutioners 2 months ago
I am more excited about the future than ever now!
bearchildofdeath 2 months ago
this makes me want to be a student in 2060... o:
liddlexxleahxx01 2 months ago
interesting thoughts! you must be thinking about this subject a lot...
lorrrris 2 months ago
@khanacademy for president 2012!
pmm1415 2 months ago
I think it's more likely that the people will spend their newfound free time on video games and surfing the web than creativity.
clerlic 2 months ago
great video, they should show this to fucking micheal gove
MrJuggy2009 2 months ago
@MrJuggy2009 They really should - now whatever you think of the Conservative Party, we can all agree that they like cutting costs (or should I say, funding?). Now I don't think that's a good reason to undertake something like this, but it's true that incorporating Khan Academy videos and tuition aids will SAVE government money.
bearchildofdeath 2 months ago
@bearchildofdeath the conservative party doesn't cut funding for the sake of cutting funding. The conservative (or Republican) party believes the government is ineffecient in managing anything and waste money with little to no results. Take Wash D.C school system for example...they spend $23K/yr per child and have the worst school system in the country. Private schools in DC produce better results with lower cost. This is why Republicans want school choice.
ramrants 2 months ago
My great coach and mentor is Sal
212jbh 2 months ago
This model assumes that progress is inexorable--it just happens irrespective of political-economic conditions. That assumption is false. If one were to look at the Roman Empire just after the birth of Christ, one would assume they would have continued to progress, but the opposite occurred: we got the Christian Dark Ages.
qtutoringhelps 2 months ago
I hope these awesome things come true.
Rickeeey1 2 months ago
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I have to say that it is funny to see this. I'm studying Game development in Amsterdam. And well Our class is like that. I give lessens to other students, wel have more than one teacher in the clas who are teaching each other. And students are also teaching our teachers.
Maybe it is becouse the world of technology is groing so fast.
You can know every program language for web and game perfectly.
But since we all wanna know what it can do...
IndustrialFaustXVII 2 months ago
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Let me give you an exemple. In our clase we have a free choise of program language. The teachers teach us PHP and AS3 and all the do's and the don'ts. We students teach them some HTML5, C#, C++, JS and more. Now they know what you can do in HTML5 and we know how to program.
(Its a simple exemple, but i'm sure you get the picture.)
IndustrialFaustXVII 2 months ago
@IndustrialFaustXVII Emphasize on HTML5 with JS, it's the future I tell you!
yannbane 2 months ago
@yannbane I make my games in JS but some say it isn't the right language because it is a higer level. But my opinion is that poeple wont make a new level is it isn't better ^^
And HTML5 is sweet indeed. If i see what studens made in it, it just WOW!
IndustrialFaustXVII 2 months ago
@IndustrialFaustXVII Nah, they have no idea. Computers are so fast people wont even notice a difference in speed, and a higher level language helps you express your creativity, rather than manage memory and worry about pointers!
yannbane 2 months ago
@yannbane Computers are fast indeed. But smartphones using a single ARM chip or in case of the iPhone 4S 2 ARM chips. And if yo can make the code more dinamic you can save some seconds in loading time and rune time. That can make a big difference.
It's easy to see it in infinity blade 2. That game is made for a dubbel ARM. I can run it in my iPod. But it fails when there are things running in the background.
IndustrialFaustXVII 2 months ago
Awesome! I cant wait for the scientific dictatorship!
CNCJMAN2 2 months ago
I admire your optimism but unfortunately the graph is going the other way. I think the title should be Education wish list and not predictions.
frknstn 2 months ago
At the very end of the video it almost sounded like you were saying in the future everything we do will be monitored and evaluated by computer algorithms which will determine what educational resources we receive and what career we will pursue.
nonoctave 2 months ago
yes i would really like to see this, but i doubt it will happen unless some big event will shift peoples minds... they just hang on the old systems sooo much... but i hope i am wrong
RoySchl 2 months ago
ZEITGEIST :D! I don't think money is going to become necessarily once machines can do all manual labours for us :D
DoNotLaughAtMe 2 months ago
sorry sal, i think your being a little too optimistic
plllll0 2 months ago
A very bright future you described Mr Khan, i hope it will be like this.
glavgad 2 months ago
Rodger walters had it right years ago. We don't need no education we don't need thought control
kayoss11 2 months ago in playlist Khan Academy-Related Talks and Interviews
I agree that we're headed in this direction. It's an emergent property because I perceived some of the same changes almost to the T, just based on the logical reasoning of where we're at socially and technologically. We just need to influence the damaging impacts of government and political impediments as well as issues with scarcity and we're there!
st3jace 2 months ago
We are going to watch this video in 2060. Then we will realize that Sal Khan is superhuman.
brco2003 2 months ago in playlist More videos from khanacademy
Very cool, very innovative. Humanity needs this.
BJ219 2 months ago
Robot that makes toast = toaster
SUPERAMAZINGATOMIC 2 months ago 35
@SUPERAMAZINGATOMIC LOL, genius.
coolbreeze922 2 months ago
Like this if you are watching this in 2060!
warsman111 2 months ago 85
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Scalifs 2 months ago
So you think they will get rid of "grades" like A, B, C, etc..?
23SuS23 2 months ago
@23SuS23 That's the idea. You'd have a lot of small topics and the only "grades" would be "passed" or "haven't passed yet".
I hope we won't have to wait to 2060 though.
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ByTheGram 2 months ago
I think one thing you need to account for is laziness!
Bojl95 2 months ago
Very interesting. In my field it is kind of this way already.. In Animation you get hired based on your demo reel. . whether it is a modelling, animation or rigging or Special FX reel. . you get hired based on that and not on your academic credentials. And you upgrade your skills by studying "Khan Academy" style online tutorials. . like Digital Tutors.
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ByTheGram 2 months ago
@ByTheGram THIS
Danny77uk 2 months ago
lol 7:38, "going into debt", so true, so true
animals0feel1pain2 2 months ago
An achievement system? This is awesome for integrating us hardcore WoW players back to the society!
yannbane 2 months ago
@yannbane haha! Level your character up to 60 with a masters degree!
Danny77uk 2 months ago
It would be very awesome if it actually developed like this!
yannbane 2 months ago
Very interesting video. I recently watched the movie "Transcendent Man" and while not immediately related to any of this, It really made me sit down and think about our future. Where ARE we headed? hopefully somewhere people have more emphasis on learning and discovering, and not total nuclear destruction! -Byron
KhanAcademyFarsi 2 months ago 16
also this doesn't account for corruption. the ppl with money can bribe the better and brighter teachers to take their children as apprentices or awarding them achievements.
saznbabigurl 2 months ago
You're idealistic about the lecture hall becoming obsolete; higher education is a business and education is a secondary priority. Universities will have a hard time justifying their tuition fees if their 'product' is available to anyone with an internet connection.
We've seen the negative impact of technology in schools where students can plagiarise wikipedia or rely on their gadgets to avoid thinking.
Also a project portfolio won't get you interviews, a degree from a brick building will.
Danny77uk 2 months ago 2
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Well my college has applied this system and it works. I paid my local college... they provided me with a user name a lecturer and a website. From that I am given weekly projects to complete. I can upload my work at nearly any time rather than tight deadlines we see in some education systems. And only I and my classmates can assess the site.
Also its false that people can simply copy from wiki. The college has a system that can read any word file and find plagiarised material.
revron77 2 months ago
@revron77 "I paid my local college... they provided me with a user name a lecturer and a website"
So why pay for something that you could have gotten for free? Sounds like a cheap way for a college to make money with little effort.
Anyone can google 'calculus' and learn at least some of it. But the quality of learning will pale in comparison to that of a real classroom, surrounded by real students. There's a spontaneity in the classroom that you cannot get from just a textbook or a website.
Danny77uk 2 months ago
@Danny77uk
I guess you haven't figured that possibly that colleges present such course so that people can have recongised qualifications.
If you feel getting GSCEs and A-levels are not needed in a workforce because google has the answer. Maybe you bring that point up to your MP
revron77 2 months ago
@revron77 Huh? Sorry, I don't understand because of your bad grammar. Are you agreeing or disagreeing?
Danny77uk 2 months ago
@Danny77uk
Great... now that I have made my point your jumping towards discrediting grammar rather than simply accepting the inevitable.
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@revron77 "now that I have made my point"
You made your point? Sorry I must have missed that. I asked for evidence and you couldn't provide it. And your grammar *IS* terrible.
Danny77uk 2 months ago
@revron77 " I can upload my work at nearly any time rather than tight deadlines we see in some education systems"
And that's another problem with this system. The real world doesn't work that way. In a real business, deadlines are set and have to be met, wether you feel like it not.
Danny77uk 2 months ago
@Danny77uk
I have obtained more knowledge about my subjects in college than I have in school. The change within the classroom has made it more easy for me to obtain information and as a result i've gained from the experience.
And its just not that. Making it accessable from a computer means I can present my work at anytime within the limit the tutor has set from nearly any position in the world.
Its far better than a closed off environment that is limited in its ability.
revron77 2 months ago
@revron77 "The college has a system that can read any word file and find plagiarised material."
So your college has knowledge of every single relevant website and book and can spot copies? Don't believe it! In a proper college, your teacher will be familiar enough with your work to differentiate between your work and someone elses. Machines can be cheated.
Danny77uk 2 months ago