"2005: A Virtual Classroom Odyssey," by Crawford Kilian
Educom Review, May-June 1994
Sample: "Among the ex-commuters will be teachers, students, and
school-building construction workers. Face-to-face contacts will still happen,
and one of teachers' most important jobs will be to help students avoid the
electronic garbage that will clutter the networks. But most education will be
independent, self-paced home learning. After all, why bother going to school
when you have all the resources of the world's great libraries (and some really
good teachers) available right at home?
The students at Virtual High (in Vancouver, B.C.) come to their school building
more often than they need to because like most tenagers, they like socializing.
But they can do just as much at home, learning at their chosen speed and at
ungodly hours if they like. Within a few years, their present laptop computers
and communications software will look quaintly primitive. But such students
are the forerunners of a revolution that wil overwhelm ordinary chalk-and-talk
schools."
The entire text is available at:
gopher://ivory.educom.edu/00/educom.review/review.94/may.jun/Kilian_May94