Will be a school in 20 years. New schools: without desks, classes and teachers

On the first weekend of February, traditionally, school alumni meet in towns and villages across our country. This year it will be 20 years since my classmates and I left the threshold of school No. 5 into adulthood. For each of us, this life turned out differently. Many have achieved significant heights, while others, on the contrary, have sunk to the bottom.
Today I invite you to a virtual meeting of my classmates. Let's see how it was once.

1. All photos were taken by me at different times, with different cameras and may not be of the highest quality, so I apologize in advance.
This is our secondary school No. 5. It was built somewhere in the late 70s. Our area at that time was new and the school was first-class and the most advanced in everything. We had special classes in mathematics, English, and physics. At the school there was a workshop for the production of wooden furniture and metal locks.

2. The school had a modern gym, stadium and skating rink. Then the skating rink disappeared, and the sides for playing hockey disappeared.

3. As a child, I was often sick and was a frail child. Somewhere after the fourth grade, I decided to go in for sports and get an A in physical education in order to become an excellent student. Since then, the crossbar has become for me a kind of pass to the gym; when I entered, I pulled myself up, and when I left, I did the same.

4. However, I was not taken to the competition because I did not have any sports abilities. I was only accepted into the hockey team after my parents intervened. When I came home from school, I burst into tears and told my mother about my great “hockey grief,” and then she talked to the physical teacher. True, they only let me on the ice during the break, and then I sat on the bench for the entire game. So the great hockey player in me died. But I didn’t stop pulling myself up. Now I can easily do the standard 12 times.
Below in the picture is one of the school’s physical education teachers, Alexey Alekseevich Petrenko. He was the one who told us about the NBA and bodybuilding. He is the man who opened the “rocking chair” at school and thanks to whom I go to the gym three times a week to this day. I do everything as he taught: 3 sets of 12 repetitions.

5. Our yard team after winning the school relay race. Igor Perko, Maxim Kotov, Sasha Evdokimov, Vadim Kaptilovich, Sergey Polyakov and me.

6. A lot happened during those ten school years. Now you don’t even remember everything. Maybe only the most important thing: the first teacher Bobko Vera Petrovna. I had a strong B in Russian. “You, Dima, will never write an A,” she said, and apparently that’s why I started writing essays. Even with mistakes, it was a kind of breakthrough. Then there were poetry competitions, Olympiads in Russian language and literature. Maybe this blog is also the result of those desires to “prove” to the teacher that I can do it. One gets the impression that the entire education system was built on the fact that they tell you “it won’t work,” but you, despite everything, achieve results.
Eighth grade, 1991.

7. My classmates and I went to the last demonstrations on November 7th. It's perestroika, and I'm wearing a boiled jacket from Poland and a "Turkish" sweater.

8. This is my best childhood friend - Sasha Evdokimov. We lived in the same house with him, and when our parents brought us to first grade, we were assigned to different classes. At recess, Sasha found me and brought me to 1st B, telling the teacher that we were friends and would study together.

9. Since then, for all 10 years we have been “inseparable”. We sat at the same desk, let each other copy homework, and skipped classes together. This is us before the trip to the potatoes. Jackets that were fashionable at that time, which we made from old school uniforms, cutting off the sleeves and attaching badges. I have a wristband with metal studs on my arm. On my feet are imported sneakers.

10. There was no Photoshop at that time and I made collages with my own hands, taking photographs and cutting out pictures. Displayed in complete darkness. The results were such masterpieces. Sasha liked Tanya then, and we joked about it.

11. Tanya Malyavko - class leader. The organizer and the only one of us who was accepted into the Komsomol. The rest didn’t make it in time, the organization, like the country, collapsed. But we managed to visit the Octobrists and Pioneers.

12. Misha Kurbatov - his house stood near the station, in the city center. There we gathered and listened to Tsoi on his tape recorder.

13. Olya Smolyak is the tallest girl in our class.

14. Olya Sorokopyt. Oh, and many hearts broke on the threshold of her house. And how many fights and brawls there were for the right to be friends with Olya.

15. Vika Brichkovskaya is the most mysterious girl in our class. I was rarely in class, but I passed all the exams. They said that she had some very influential patron.

16. Natasha Kolodko - always cheerful, the life of the party.

17. Vadim Kaptilovich is a wonderful football player; he could disappear at the stadium for hours.

18. Igor Perko is a very businesslike friend, the first in his class who learned to drive a car. All the boys were very jealous of him then and asked him to come to school in his father’s car. Now the head of the traffic police.

19. I had the opportunity to visit school many years after graduation. This is what the school hallway looks like.

20. The door to our 11th B grade.

21. Our class was thematic - a physics room. Here we studied the laws of the structure of the Universe, wrote laboratory papers, and passed exams. In the 6th grade, I wanted to take a textbook on astronomy from the library, but they didn’t give it to me, saying that I was still too young. They advised me to come back in 4 years. But I still secretly took it out of the library. I didn’t show it to anyone for a long time until I had studied it all.

22. Nikolai Petrovich Moiseenko - physics teacher. The first bicycle trip, looking at the moon through a telescope, a program for a calculator, Beatles albums - it was he who showed us all this. He also came up with a system of variations for his tests so that no one could cheat from the person sitting next to him. Sometimes I had to solve all eight of them in 45 minutes to help my comrades, because I knew astronomy since the sixth grade. This is his back room. It seemed that all the secrets of the world were kept behind that door. There are so many interesting devices on the shelves and everything has been working for many years.

23. I couldn’t believe my eyes - I was sitting on this chair.

24. It was made in 1982.

25. Our class teacher Anna Leonidovna Novik is a teacher of Belarusian language and literature and her current class. I could never get used to her “Russian” speech. Previously, portraits of writers and political figures hung on the walls, but now there is only one left. You know which one.

26. Oh, it must have been hard for her to be with us, because she took us in in the 9th grade, when we all already had character.

27. Today's computer science class and its teacher, Cuban Carlos. In our time there was a computer "Agat" with two games "Parachutist" and "Snake".

28. New teacher. Unfortunately I didn't write down the name.

29. My English teacher is Irina Aleksandrovna Sergeeva. Her son and my classmate Zhenya and I sometimes became hooligans at school, for which he got more punishment than others. Who would have thought then that I would speak English more often than Russian.

30. Well, now about the sad thing. Our school is very old, and education in the country is state-run. For 20 years, the state has never found the money to repair the School.

31. The toilets in the toilets are still broken.

32. The roof is leaking.

33. The pipes under the washbasins are leaking.

34. No taps.

35. There is nothing to cover the roof with.

36. This is our head teacher Oleg Petrovich Barsukov and the school director Bystrik Alexander Stepanovich. These people do everything possible to ensure that children receive an education first and foremost, and try to keep the school in working order. The teacher must teach, and the taps must be repaired by the plumber. If it happens the other way around, it will turn out the way it has now happened in one small country.

37. Alexander Stepanovich and I talked for a long time about school problems and affairs, remembering old times. We looked at cool magazines from past years. He is an extraordinary person, very progressive-minded. Alexander Stepanovich enjoyed great respect among us and among ourselves we called him “chief.” His word was our law. The same cannot be said about the city administration; they didn’t like him there because the School did not raise ideological idiots, but raised free-thinking people. Apparently that’s why they didn’t give money to the School. But it’s okay, Alexander Stepanovich, the main thing is not about money, but about the truth. And whoever has the truth is stronger.

You can write a lot about the School for a long time. It’s difficult to put all 10 years into one post. I would really like to know how life turned out for my classmates. Where are they now, what are they doing? All the information that is on the website of the same name is of course available to me, but there are only a few there, and there were 26 of us in the class. We went down in the history of the school as the most “medal-winning” class - 16 gold and silver medalists, winners of regional and republican Olympiads. After graduating from school, many continued to receive higher education, entering the most prestigious universities in our country. Happy 20th anniversary to you, my classmates!

P.S. Don't be offended if I didn't mention someone, I posted only the photos that I could find in my archives.

Update: They reported that the skating rink has already been restored. Everything is in order with the toilets and the roof, because the country no longer needs free people and Alexander Stepanovich is no longer the Director of Secondary School No. 5...

Stay in touch. I'll be back soon.

But eighth-graders wrote essays about how easy it is to be a teenager.

We thank teacher Oksana Anatolyevna SHEVCHUK for her help and invite you to get acquainted with some of her works.

I sincerely hope that in twenty years people will come up with new energy. And this energy will have no downsides. And no consequences (explosions, etc.). This energy will have one big plus. It can be recycled many times after its use.

I also really want there to be no tobacco or alcohol. After all, they kill a huge number of people. The country will be richer if there is no drug addiction. And then there will be more great people.

It will be good if our country can create a perpetual motion machine! And together with English scientists he will repeat the experience of thirty years ago and will be able to create a teleport through joint efforts.

It doesn’t seem to me that in 20 years there will be many cars and equipment, but there will be no wildlife... This is very bad! All the trees will be cut down, there will be no fresh air. They will come up with a lot more chips and kirieshki with different additives. There will be no animals and there will be no meat.

And I want every person on Earth to plant at least one tree. People would raise animals. And we would have a lot of meat, not preservatives.

If people make too many cars, it seems to me that we will choke on exhaust fumes. And people will gradually begin to die and perish. I will give advice to all of you! Stop inventing a lot of equipment and machines! Otherwise we will begin to die!

People build a lot of cars

Why are we swarming with them?

Let's say no to exhaust fumes.

Let the flowers be in a vase.

If I became president, I would first of all think about our pensioners. When I was abroad, I observed how pensioners live in France. They can afford to go to restaurants, travel around the world and dress very decently. What can our pensioners afford? They only have enough money for medicine and food. But our government does nothing to somehow improve their lives. I myself have grandparents; Of course, I will help them when I grow up, but what about other pensioners, who will help them?

The second issue that worries me is the pollution of the country. An elementary example is our city. The streets and courtyards are complete garbage, as if there are crooked people living there who cannot get into either the trash can or the trash can. What is happening to the environment? The right bank of our city is a continuous Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Old factories, no measures for chemical emissions or air purification. All the equipment is dilapidated and an environmental disaster could occur.

I think our generation should think about this: we still have time to live on this planet.

I believe that nothing will change in 10-13 years, except that children will not have to go to school: they will study at the computer. On the Internet, the teacher can be seen on the screen, and he sees all the students. Food can be ordered online or by phone. It is better for people and nature to use electricity rather than gasoline. Electric cars are great. And most of all I like the idea that everything can be planted with trees. More oxygen.

But there are also downsides to the future. Now crime has increased significantly. And it will grow if it is not stopped. All lawbreakers must be caught and executed or imprisoned for life. And then there will be no problems in the world. And we need to destroy all the alcohol and all the tobacco in the world. These are all dreams, but I hope that all this will come true. And sport will make the country proud as before.

I see myself as smart and athletic. And in the future I imagine myself as the best football player in Europe. Torres and Messi look on from the bench with envy at my abilities. I see a big country in the future, so that it includes Ukraine, Belarus, Spain and other good countries. Then, in addition to Pavlyuchenko, the team will include Shevchenko, Torres, and Beckham. A team with such players will finally defeat both Brazil and Argentina.

With my family, I would live in Madrid in a two-story house with a bathhouse, a swimming pool, a garden and drive a Porsche Cayenne.

I have a lot of wishes that should come true in 10 years. When I am 25 years old, I will be very kind, beautiful and famous throughout the world. All my close and dear people will be proud of me, and I will constantly give them kind words and pamper them with gifts. On our planet Earth, people will live longer, and for every disease a professor

will create medicines that will be available to everyone and will quickly cure any disease. I also think that I will graduate from the Oil and Gas Institute and go to live and work in America and occupy a high position. I will buy back all the shares in the Walt Disney Company, and when my grandchildren grow up, they can sell the shares and make a lot of money.

Where do I see myself in the future? Maybe a DJ in a trendy club, or maybe a student in glasses with a daddy under her arm. But the main thing is that I remain as kind and sympathetic as before. After all, even now I sometimes notice that I don’t treat others the way I should.

Of course, I would like to have a huge house, like a palace, and three cars. One SUV, a sports car and a luxury limousine. I would like to graduate from some prestigious college in America and become a guide-translator. When I traveled around Europe with my mother, I really liked this profession. Therefore, I would like to learn seven languages: English, German, Chinese, French, Italian, Turkish and Spanish. But even if I don't become a tour guide, I will become a writer, like Stephenie Meyer and Joanne Rowling.

From the essays of eighth-graders “Is it difficult to be young?”

“Oh, childhood, childhood - a pink sunrise,

Where everything around is uncompromisingly simple. »

At first glance it seems that the question is not difficult, but the more I ask myself this question, the more I am convinced that it is impossible to answer it unambiguously. In my opinion, the answer can be “yes” and “no”.

YES. Youth is the only and probably the most wonderful period of time for every person. During these years we learn the joys and delights of our life. We can also spend a lot of free time doing our interesting things.

NO. Firstly, because in your youth you don’t know what will happen to you next. But I want to know. Choose your path, make a decision in life - all this must be done in your youth. And preferably without significant mistakes, since how your life will turn out will depend on this choice. Is it easy?

It is also difficult because there are many illusions in your head that you take for reality. Many illusions burst like soap bubbles, you cannot understand why? for what? And the first pain appears in your soul... And you don’t know how to cope.

It is difficult to establish relationships with elders. It seems that the closest, dearest people do not understand you. Hence the frequent conflicts, disagreements, and misunderstandings. This means, in addition to studying, you need to build relationships with the people around you, elders and peers, friends and girlfriends, with the whole world around you. And this is not an easy science.

But the main difficulty for young people, it seems to me, is to understand themselves, to realize what kind of person you are, what is good and what is bad about you. And the main thing here is not to have complexes about your appearance if you don’t like it, but also not to exalt yourself if you really like yourself. And we also need to learn to act rationally and thoughtfully! Make compromises and control yourself, restrain the surging feelings... We must learn to live with our minds, and not just with our hearts. You don't have to be an uncompromising, brash girl who says no to everything you don't like.

If now you choose the right path in life, if not all your dreams will be scattered, if you learn to live in harmony with yourself and with those around you, then your youth was fruitful. In my opinion, this is the most important and most difficult thing. But the happiness and fun of youth will not leave you.

Daria PIROGOVA, 8 "B"

I can proudly say that I, like everyone else, have positive traits. In my opinion, I am quite cheerful, it is almost not difficult for me to cheer someone up. I know how to support a person, I like to stand up for my friends. But the most important thing, of course, is that I know how to keep secrets. I'm not a robot, so sometimes I might spill the beans, but I try to take care of myself.

Unfortunately, I also have some disadvantages. And I don't know how many there are. Not because I have a lot of negative traits, but I just may not notice some of them. Now my main disadvantage is rudeness. Sometimes it happens that I snap at a person for no reason. But I don’t suffer from pride, so then I try to immediately ask for forgiveness...

Another one of my disadvantages is when I start telling lies, that is, being disingenuous. But it is very difficult to survive in a world of lies, so I want to get rid of this habit that no one needs.

I can boast that I have become more punctual. Since before I was always late everywhere, I needed a long time to work on myself.

In general, I have yet to understand the entire essence of man, but I will replenish my piggy bank and strive for perfection, although it does not exist: there are no limits. Well, wish me luck...

Foreign press about Russia and beyond

Olga R. Sanmartin | El Mundo

This is what school will look like in 2030

Over the next 15 years, the Internet will transform educational institutions into an “interactive environment” that will radically transform traditional forms of education and change the roles of teachers, parents and students, writes El Mundo journalist Olga R. Sanmartin.

The teacher's main mission will be to guide the student through independent learning, and the curriculum will be personalized to suit each individual's needs. Personal and practical skills will be valued more than academic knowledge. The main source of knowledge will be the Internet, and the global language of instruction will be English. Education will become more expensive and will last a lifetime. These are the forecasts of 645 experts surveyed for the report of the World Summit on Innovative Education (WISE), which will take place in Doha on November 4-6. The survey included linguist Noam Chomsky, former Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard, professor Sugata Mitra and others.

The newspaper conducted its own survey among Spanish experts, asking them to adapt these forecasts to the situation in Spain.

Every 7 out of 10 participants in the WISE survey believe that a teacher will become a guide for a student on his own path to knowledge, the publication writes. 43% of respondents believe that in 2030 the main source of knowledge will be Internet content.

“The role of teachers will become even more important. They will have to explain to students that they need a critical approach to information, that not everything found on the Internet is true, that they need to select the most reliable sources and use them,” comments Ismael Sanz, director of the National Institute of Evaluation Education at the Spanish Ministry of Education.

Sanz expects the development of a methodology in which students prepare their own lessons and give presentations in class, while the teacher advises them.

"There's no point in giving boring lectures to 250 students who can't participate when you can give them a recording of the lecture instead. But on the other hand, many of these innovations could already be introduced, but aren't happening. Maybe we're on to something we don't understand," says Antonio Cabrales, who teaches economics at University College London.

The role of the student will also change. He "will have much greater access to sources of knowledge, a more cosmopolitan and less 'local' mentality, the student will undoubtedly be the protagonist of his own educational process," says Nuria Miro, director of the Montserrat school (Barcelona). She adds that the boundaries between those who teach and those who learn will become blurred.

Cesar Garcia (University of Washington) predicts that students will become more demanding: "The student is turning into a client: he invests money and expects a return. Teachers will be forced to more convincingly explain how they assign grades."

Will the school schedule change? Spanish experts believe that training will no longer be carried out only at certain hours and in certain places. According to Garcia, there will be more courses on the Internet and at non-standard hours: “There will be an increase in the number of students forced to work, they will not be able to come during traditional hours. There will be schools where classes are held in the summer and on weekends.”

Will there be homework? “In a way, if things change, almost everything will turn into homework,” Cabrales replies. The schedule will become more free, there will be more individual tasks.

All this will affect the personal relationships between students. According to Garcia, "the concept of companionship is a thing of the past; children are more lonely now." 20 years ago, Spanish children spent a lot of time outside, but now they spend more time at home, on the Internet, and also go to extracurricular activities. “So I think communication will be more important in the school of the future,” Garcia concludes.

76% of respondents believe that personal or practical skills will be valued more than academic knowledge. "So-called 'soft skills' - the ability to speak in public, work in a team, adapt to unexpected events - are becoming increasingly important in the workplace, but Spanish experts are unanimous that they alone are no substitute for good academic preparation," the article says. .

90% of respondents believe that in the new environment, learning will last a lifetime and will not be limited to the period of compulsory schooling and studies in higher educational institutions. “This does not mean that education will be free. On the contrary, 70% of respondents believe that the state budget will cease to be the main source of financing,” the newspaper writes. Spanish experts, however, did not agree with this forecast. "Public education is key to creating equal opportunity. As far as I'm concerned, it's never going away," Sanz says.

46% of respondents believe that a global language of education will emerge - English. 35% believe that the language of instruction will remain the national language, and 19% - that the regional one.

My school in ten years will be even better and more beautiful. The current first-graders will go to grades 10 and 11. They will become graduates.

By that time, I think plastic windows will be installed throughout the school. They won’t have to be shut up for the winter, and parents will no longer have to go in the fall to insulate the classroom in this way, and less noise will be allowed through.

In addition, in 10 years, the menu in the dining room will probably become more varied and healthy. They will stop giving sausages and sausages, and there will be more fruit on the children's table.

But the most important change will be in the quality and methods of teaching. Modern technical innovations and video materials will be used more and more. Maybe we'll start using electronic textbooks, and then our portfolios will become much lighter.

I would like to look at my favorite school in 10 years.

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• Comparative characteristics of Evgeny Onegin and Grigory Pechorin essay

  The main characters of the early 19th century are Onegin and Pechorin. They are the creations of great writers of their time and in some ways even reflect the fate of their creators. Lermontov and Pushkin and Onegin and Pechorin had very dramatic fates.

• The main idea of ​​"Lefty" Leskov (6th grade)

  Since ancient times, the Russian land was full of craftsmen; many famous writers and poets dedicated their works to Russian craftsmen, who can turn even the most seemingly unremarkable trifle into a miracle.

• Vasya in the story Children of the Dungeon Korolenko image and characteristics

As you read this issue of the magazine, thousands of men and women are working hard to bring babies into the world in nine months. After about seven years, these children will go to school, and somewhere around 2030 they will find themselves on the border between secondary education and higher education. And it is quite possible that by this time the entire school and university system will be completely different. Which?

The Agency for Strategic Initiatives (ASI) has been developing the Education 2030 foresight forecast for several years. There is much more challenge and futuristic romance in ASI projects, which distinguishes them favorably from the documents of the Ministry of Education, where everything is about “efficiency of spending budget funds.” Here you can feel the spirit of science fiction novels: “a personal total textbook with artificial intelligence”, “the logic of game achievements”, “the use of educational environments for the reintegration of families”...

RR journalists studied the ASI forecast and talked with its authors. We compared the futuristic picture with our own experience in the field of both “official” education (the author of this text worked for a year and a half as a geography teacher in a district school) and “unofficial” education (“RR” participates in the Summer School, where they teach not only journalism, but and medicine, physics, biology, sociology, psychology, etc.).

As a result, we were able to identify several key trends in the development of education. We will not insist that all this will definitely happen. Rather, these are dreams of a desired future that will help us in the present.

Trend 1. Revision of everything and everyone

The mass school is an insanely conservative institution, much more conservative, for example, than the Orthodox Church with its traditions and rituals. The educational canon is strictly observed: the lesson lasts 45 minutes, the desks in the classroom are arranged in rows, at the beginning of the year a ceremonial assembly is held with the participation of war veterans, in the fall the competition “Dad, Mom, I am a sports family” is held, grades are given from two to five... The same the same with universities: lectures, seminars, tests, exams, deans, faculties, departments.

But the education that was created for the needs of industrialization and overcoming mass illiteracy is no longer relevant. There is a new economy on the planet, new technologies, new challenges. Globalization, computers, tablets, universal Internet, artificial intelligence, Wikipedia, machine translators...

It is enough to pay attention to such a trifle as differences in the competencies of generations. Once upon a time, an adult knew more than a child. He sewed, cooked, and plowed better. I had to learn everything from him. Today, many teenagers have a much better understanding of tablet settings than their parents and teachers.

It seems to us that the Unified State Exam or bachelor's and master's degrees are great educational reforms. In fact, this is just a minor organizational modification, nothing more. Substantive reforms are also taking place. For example, in Russian schools they are gradually moving away from the principle “the teacher speaks - the student remembers, the teacher checks - the student answers” ​​and is increasingly relying on independent research by schoolchildren - projects. Instead of memorizing numbers and dates, children explore an object themselves, be it the parental behavior of cyclid fish in an aquarium or the strategic techniques of Gaius Julius Caesar during the Gallic War. While this is being implemented clumsily and ineptly, it has already become a standard.

If education wants to meet the needs of a changing society, it must subject all its constants to revision. Well, for example, the very principle of the class-lesson system. For some reason, it is believed that people born in the same year should all go to the same classes together. Are you eight years old? Go learn the names of the herbs in the meadow. Are you fourteen? Then memorize the names of chemical elements. No one cares about your personal interests or your level of development in a particular area.

There are many experiments where people were united in study groups, regardless of age. Take the same Summer School “RR”. There, both a candidate of technical sciences and a 10th grade student can easily sit in one lesson on cosmology. This topic is not very familiar or interesting to both of them. It is not clear who is easier to assimilate it. Of course, a candidate of sciences has more experience, but a high school student remembers mythology and history better, since he recently took them.

“Now it has become clear that the differences between children of the same age and the differences between different ages are already comparable. Therefore, the idea of ​​a single-age class is invalid. And you can mix the children in the class,” said Doctor of Psychology Katerina Polivanova in an interview with RR.

The same is true with other “sacred cows” of education: the division of knowledge into subjects, the lecture system, the organization of exams. They will all undergo revision and rethinking.

Trend 2: Very personal education

The old school and the old university have no place in the world of the future. A person will be able to collect his personal education without traditional institutions. I do not rule out that in 2030, permanent study at school or university will become the lot of losers. They will say about such people: “He could not design his own education...” says Pavel Luksha, director of corporate educational programs at the Moscow School of Management Skolkovo and one of the main creators of the Education 2030 foresight forecast.

“Every student is unique,” ​​our teachers pronounce pathetically, after which they drive this unique student into the tightest possible framework. Let's say there's a geography lesson going on. The girl Ira in the first desk knows by heart more than half of the US states and their economic features. She is bored. And the boy Vasya in the last desk doesn’t really understand what hemisphere the United States is in. He's scared. But the poor teacher needs to give a single standard curriculum to a single standard class. This is the current mass school.

And the education of the future is presented as a kind of construction kit that the student assembles on his own. Let's say a smart teenager at 14 years old determines that in the next year he needs to take an in-depth course in nuclear physics, learn to play the guitar, learn the basics of the Chinese language, take a short course in probability theory and practice conducting sociological research.

An ordinary district school is unlikely to provide such a kit, but this is not a problem - it’s 2030 and construction kit parts are scattered throughout the space: the Internet, universities (both domestic and foreign), multimedia textbooks, specialized courses, informal educational communities.

Of course, the student’s desire alone is not enough to determine the educational trajectory. Many will even choose the advanced couch potato course as their main subject. For this system to work, a lot is needed: psychologists-consultants, personal tutors, advanced training courses for parents. But this is quite real.

Some elements of this educational utopia have already begun to emerge. For example, in the notorious standard for high school it was assumed that a significant part of the courses would be chosen by the student himself. The progressive public reared up: “What is this going on?!” Will we listen to the student's wishes?! What if he refuses to read War and Peace?! If he doesn’t find out that the Volga flows into the Caspian Sea?! Anarchy! Horror! The collapse of the education system!” Due to public pressure, the level of variability in the standard was reduced. But she still stayed.

It is expected that in the future not only the set of courses and their content will be personalized, but also textbooks. ASI experts are talking about the appearance of the “Diamond Primer”, this image is taken from the science fiction novel by Neal Stephenson: the textbook will be filled with artificial intelligence, and it will be able to select educational materials - photos, texts, videos, assignments, diagrams - to suit the needs of each specific student, and it does not matter this student is six years old or sixty. There is nothing fundamentally impossible about this.

Another beautiful metaphor: “God’s point.” The point is that the moment will come when all written information will be on the Internet, and at the same time the Network will be accessible anywhere. Already, the teacher’s monopoly on knowledge has been greatly undermined thanks to a bunch of educational sites and Wikipedia. The trend is getting worse, and the teacher must turn from a storyteller into a guide.

Trend 3. Personal portfolios

Two, three, four, five, pass, fail... Current education is based on grades. They are needed to diagnose the student. But the area in which they can measure something is too narrow. It is as if doctors were guided only by thermometer readings and ignored blood tests, x-rays and tomograph data.

In addition to tests and answers in class, the student has many other opportunities to express himself. Participation in conferences and concerts, helping friends, meaningful visits to excursions, reports, independent research, practice in real workplaces, trips to meetings, and so on. A lot of everything. It is not so easy to take this into account. Especially when we are not talking about the number of facts learned, but about more complex substances such as the ability to think or the ability to take responsibility.

The author of this material was once present at a teachers’ meeting in a district school. The director was inspired by the book about Harry Potter and decided to introduce a point system for each class. It turned out that it was easy to find reasons for deducting points: being late for class, making noise, leaving the classroom uncleaned. But there were problems with accrual - why reward if good studies or decent behavior is considered the norm and not an achievement?! As a result, the points system was never introduced.

Now in developed countries - the USA, Canada, Japan, European countries - the portfolio system is very popular. During his studies, the student accumulates diplomas, certificates, certificates, and so on - right up to reviews from his housemates. In New Zealand, according to rumors, this system has been brought to a national scale, lifetime achievements are taken into account, and both insurance and credit are tied to this. The portfolio system is starting to work for us too. True, in our version it is very formal, and does not provide any special advantages.

In the future, the accumulated baggage of achievements will become one of the key elements of the education system. And here again, information technology will make a person’s merits accessible and transparent.

A separate topic that experts love to talk about is the introduction of games into education and recording of gaming achievements. Imagine a schoolboy Vasya, who sits at the computer all day long and plays Civilization. His classmate Masha persistently crams textbooks on social studies and ancient history. Question: who better understands the structure of society? It is clear that Masha will receive the best marks. But the question is not in assessments, but in understanding. The computer toy includes resource distribution, foreign policy, economic management, and many other important things.

Correct decisions are immediately rewarded with additional points. The description of the toy reads: “As the leader of his nation, the player will have to create his own state, develop technology and economy, and establish relations with neighboring states. You can try yourself in the role of Lincoln, Napoleon, Stalin and other equally outstanding personalities.” Why not teach social sciences and social practices?

According to the forecast, play should become an important element of education. And it is likely that the portfolio of the future, along with a diploma of participation in the Russian Bear Cub competition, will contain a certificate of completion of Civilization 8.0.

Trend 4. Civil society versus state institutions

It is very important: the student must stop being an object of the educational process and become its subject. Behind this boring phrase lies the real tragedy of education, especially Russian education. Schoolchildren and students are alienated from their educational institutions. For the authorities, they are nothing more than a “student contingent” on whom certain pedagogical actions must be carried out. It's more like a factory where people are ground instead of gears. And these people perceive the educational institution as something alien, external. The university and school are not “us”, but “they”.

ASI analysts predict that the education of the future will be completely different. The university and school will become a single community, where everyone learns something from each other, everyone helps each other develop.

Here, again, it is worth turning to the example of the RR Summer School, where the principle “everyone teaches - everyone learns” is one of the fundamental ones. Now Ivan is listening to a lecture on science journalism, and in an hour and a half he will get up from his student bench and take the place of the lecturer to talk about cell apoptosis, which he understands better than everyone else present. And then both teachers and students will go wash the dishes together, because this is their common university, a common school that they are creating together. There is no “us” and “they” here; everyone here is a subject, not an object.

Of course, this happens when the educational project is outside traditional state institutions. This is rather the prerogative of civil society. It is already creating an alternative to the state when it comes to saving sick children, collecting humanitarian aid, or monitoring the integrity of elections. It is quite possible that it may also take over the education niche.

Civic educational projects are still rare, but those that exist are very effective. For example, Total Dictation can be seen as an alternative form of literacy improvement. Its scale is impressive: hundreds of thousands of participants, covering the whole world from Kamchatka to Kaliningrad, from Bolivia to New Zealand. And this is a completely new project, in no way connected with traditional structures.

It is clear that volunteers and civil activists will not be able to completely replace teachers. Most likely, we will talk about competition between different systems - public, state and commercial.

Another alternative to current universities could be some kind of student holdings, when people unite to get an education in a certain set of specialties. And in this case, deans and rectors are not omnipotent dictators, but merely employees or elected representatives.

Trend 5. Lifelong learning

Another feature that is promised in the future: education will become permanent, continuous and total. For example, through education, families can be restored to their former unity. After all, now fathers, mothers, children, grandmothers, grandfathers have crawled into their corners. Sometimes the only thing that unites them all is family scandals.

The ideal family of the future should live differently. First, a family foresight is carried out: what are we striving for together, what is each of us striving for, what do we want to achieve, what knowledge and skills do we lack for this? Then the family turns into an educational unit of society. Dad reads a course on modern history for everyone, a teenage son teaches his mother to play the guitar, a fifth-grader daughter explains musical notation to her brother, a mother retells what she learned at a training in Gestalt psychology at the age of thirty-five, and a grandmother shares her memories of the organization of medicine. under Brezhnev. A more advanced option is for families to unite with each other and form clubs and communities. Once again, traditional educational institutions are being left behind.

Trend 6. “University of Billions”

Russian universities have reasons to panic. And it’s not just about the latest attempts by the Ministry of Education and Science to find and close universities with “signs of inefficiency.” If Stanford University or the Massachusetts Institute of Technology compete for students with the Volchegon Financial and Pedagogical University, it is not difficult to guess who will win.

What is a university education? This is some authoritative person - a professor - coming out to the audience and telling something. The audience writes this down and then takes an exam, that is, it demonstrates that it has assimilated the thoughts of this professor.

But why does the professor have to be in the same classroom as the students?! We listen to the music of our favorite band, although the performers are physically located on the other side of the planet.

Modern technologies make it possible to make university education accessible regardless of where a person is located - in a remote Russian village or on the West Coast of the United States. A typical example is the Coursera project, in which teachers from Stanford University, the California Institute of Technology, Princeton University and other highly ranked universities participate.

Anyone can get free access to video recordings of lectures on any of the offered training courses, of which there are now more than four hundred: “social psychology”, “computer vision”, “introduction to sociology”, etc. At the time of writing this article, Coursera has enrolled 4,442,445 people from all over the world, including Russia. It’s clear that when the course “Theory of Automata” is taught by Professor Jeffrey Ullman, who at one time received the John von Neumann Medal “For creating the foundations of the theory of automata,” it is cooler than a lecture by a sad associate professor from a provincial institute.

It is possible that such supranational “universities of billions” could seriously displace traditional universities. But here the question arises: how to test the acquired knowledge? There are at least two ways here. The first is to harness the power of artificial intelligence. Text analysis systems are quite capable of evaluating even creative work such as an essay or section “C” in the Unified State Examination. Another option is based on social networks. Some students test others, and a class of voluntary tutors and mentors is formed. If desired, each professor or successful specialist can create his own army with officers, guards, reservists, recruits, etc.

The ASI forecasts say a lot about virtual worlds and planetary networks. Perhaps this really is the future. But then a deficit of real communication will begin to form. After all, a good professor does more than just give lectures. He communicates with students, reacts to their facial expressions, and shows his behavior patterns. This is real education. And in the future, it is possible that very, very elite structures will appear, in which teachers, as in Antiquity, will walk through real gardens with real students. After all, even the way the professor looked after a passing girl is also an important socializing experience for his students.

Trend 7. The rise and fall of progress. And then take off again

There is a graph on the screen. The curve starts somewhere around 2010 and goes up rapidly. Nearby are explanations: “Awareness of the education crisis,” “Fashion for technological solutions,” “Searching for answers in information and communication technologies.”

Around 2017, the curve reaches a peak and rolls down: “Collapse of the market for standard replacement solutions. Breakthrough solutions that create new standards. Wars of standards and formats. The infrastructure of new education is the next generation of ICT.” After this, the graph jumps up again, with maximum values ​​visible around 2025: “New education becomes basic infrastructure in developed countries.”

This “double hump” effect is characteristic of many innovation sectors. The businesses that remain after the “collapse” of the bubble set the industry standard, ASI experts explain.

This has happened more than once in history. When Internet technologies grew by leaps and bounds. There was euphoria. And then one day, the famous “dot-com crash” happened in 2000, when shares of telecommunications and computer companies collapsed all at once. And nothing. Today we fully use computers, the Internet, and other technological things. Most likely, the “education of the future” will face the same fate. And what seems like an awkward fashion now will turn out to be the norm by 2030.

“In Russia there is disdain for the IT sector; influential people at the very top consider it something frivolous. But in the last 50 years, all the main return on capital comes from IT, all technological breakthroughs occur there. Even in the army, the main trend now is control and coordination systems on the battlefield.”

Evgeny Kuznetsov, Director of the Strategic Communications Department of RVC OJSC

“It is important that people have made a common decision about the future and believe that it will be that way. An official's order cannot change the system for the better. We need an ideology - just like at the beginning of the 20th century, the Bolshevik party believed in communism and this allowed them to coordinate their activities to seize power. Our ideology is not political, but technocratic.”

Dmitry Peskov, head of the “Young Professionals” direction of the Agency for Strategic Initiatives, one of the authors of the “Education 2030” project

“We want to provide an answer to the challenge that faces the whole world!.. By 2025, we predict the disappearance of the forms of education we are accustomed to - they will be replaced by something else.”

Pavel Luksha is the director of corporate educational programs at the Moscow School of Management Skolkovo, one of the authors of the Education 2030 project.