How will education evolve?

I was sitting in a class today, supervising a test... and had a thought... one thing that I have to watch for is cheaters.. yes... they DO exist.

I started thinking about all the advancements in technology we've had, and where it's going... one day, cybernetic implants will be the norm, and we'll all be wired to the net in our heads, with personal displays being presented to us by bionic eyes etc.

So where will this leave the classroom, when all information is readily available online? Will classes become more about social behaviour? Bio-organic Viruses 101? Efficient search methods?

In tests - don't know the answer? Look it up on Googlepedia (a McNet Co. initiative)

I'm looking for discussion here~ What do you think education will become in the future?

At the rate we are going we will probably end up with a whole bunch of self taught or homeschooled kids. Computers are going to be needed even more in the future as people decide to take classes online.

I see a future where new methods of acquiring information will be pioneered. For instance when scientists learn more about the programming language and basic input output systems of our brains they will learn how to stream this information directly into our minds at thoroughput rates that are boggling. Imagine taking an entire college class in less than 5 minutes and having total recall and mastery of that subject.

I think that education will slowly evolve from rote memorization to problem solving, idea discussion, and understanding. If I want to know what year the Battle of Waterloo was, all I have to do is spend 5 seconds on Google. If I want to know why the Battle of Waterloo was fought, I have to do a lot more research, and it isn't something I can learn in 5 seconds. I see most education, particularly grade school, as learning the date of the battles, and that of the second type as fairly rare, but the ideal that I hope we have in the future.

As I'm less into bio-tech, I do hope that in the future the education would more shift its focus from hammering useless information into the heads of unknowing kids to helping them develop into free thinking, open minded, self-assure, charismatic personalities.

While uploading date right into the head also sounds interesting and quite possible sometime in the future, it is believed that certain "mystics" were learning that way since long, long ago, by seeing with their clairvoyance the world the way it really is, rather then repeating the ideas someone else came up with, like we, normal people, do.

Originally posted by DragonsDemesne
I think that education will slowly evolve from rote memorization to problem solving, idea discussion, and understanding. If I want to know what year the Battle of Waterloo was, all I have to do is spend 5 seconds on Google. If I want to know why the Battle of Waterloo was fought, I have to do a lot more research, and it isn't something I can learn in 5 seconds. I see most education, particularly grade school, as learning the date of the battles, and that of the second type as fairly rare, but the ideal that I hope we have in the future.

Good point. The basic facts of history or science are not as important as the ability to process this information. I do think that the basic facts are what should be uploaded into our minds at an early age and the ability to process this information is what our educational system should center on. In a society like that a teachers job would be more like a professor or guru and the slogan, "those who can do and those who can't teach" would become archaic.