SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT - Volunteer Jacob Cottrell, a junior at Mississinewa High School, mingles Friday morning with people gathering for the start of Synergy '07 at Indiana Wesleyan University's Phillippe Performing Arts Center. JEFF MOREHEAD / jmorehea@marion.gannett.com
BY SEAN F. DRISCOLL, Chronicle-Tribune
sdriscol@marion.gannett.com
This fall's kindergartners will be the high school Class of 2020.
Most of them will live until 2080 or so, maybe 2090 or 2100.
What will the world be like then? A hundred years ago, the commissioner of the U.S. Office of Patents thought everything that could be invented had been. That was before the computer, the cell phone, space travel.
What will schools be like? How will children learn?
It seems like a long way off. But for the people who gathered Friday at Synergy '07, change can't wait. Changes in schools have to start now.
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