Lincoln Central School is an elementary and middle school located in a rural area of Lakeville, CT. It has 303 students and 63 teachers. The school provides Chromebooks for 4th, 5th, and middle school students and iPads for K-5 students to use for classes. The document discusses trends in demography, such as an aging workforce and increasing ethnic diversity. It also discusses future techniques like scenarios and scanning to analyze trends and issues. Personalized learning environments and makerspaces are presented as ways to engage students in hands-on learning through projects. Challenges in implementing new approaches include teacher training, funding, and data collection.

1. Ruth Salas - Ramos
Post University
Professor Rebecca Waters

2. Lincoln Central
School
Founded 1953
Elementary and
Middle School
Population
303 students and 63
teachers
Location
Rural area / Lakeville,
CT

3. Technology at Lincoln
School
Chromebooks
For 4th, 5th & Middle
school / Goggle apps for
assignments
Ipads
For K-5 / Use for Math,
Language Arts and
Spanish

4. Futuring
Technique
Scenarios
Designed to highlight
the risks and
opportunities.
Explores and analyze
trends, events, issues
through a range of
activities.
Scanning
 “Scanning identifies indicators of change, but it is monitoring that provides
an ongoing review of the effects and impact of the change” (Sobrero, 2004,
para. 12).

5. • Illuminate significant alternatives of
change
• Organizations receive clear information in
which to think about the future.
• Strategy based on knowledge is more likely
to succeed.
Opportunities
• Information may not always be reliable or
accurately.
• Time consuming.
• Tendency for more convenient than
realistic.
Challenges

6.  Refers to different learning experiences.
 Strategies address distinct learning needs, interests or cultural
background. .
 Hand on and creativity. Time consuming.
 Engage science, engineering and problem solving.
“tailoring learning for each student’s strengths, needs, and interests—including
enabling student voice and choice in what, how, when and where they learn— to
provide flexibility and supports to ensure mastery of the highest standards possible”
(Patrick, Kennedy, and Powell 2013, 4).
“... a destination of thinking, learning, doing, creating, and producing; where
students are makers who think, create, share, and grow” (Leslie Preddy, 2013).

7.  Students think beyond their books and explore learning skills.
 Increase student’s motivation through visuals and audio.
 Science, technology and mathematic disciplines based on real
world. (Wu-Rorrer, 2017)
 Hands and minds on lesson for student.
. Laptop and netbook computers have made computer technology more portable
and more affordable for today’s students. (Baker, Lusk, & Neuhauser, 2012).

8. Demography
Trends
Aging American
Workers
- Life expectancy higher than any other
period in history.
- People of 65 and older still working.

9. Demography
Trends
Ethnic Diversity
- White decrease by more than 14%.
None white increase by the same rate.
- Have important implications for
leaders, policymakers, parents and
community.

10.  Students will become makers and learners.
 Classrooms will turn into learning studios.
 Makerspace: Students will create, build and
learn.
 Teachers will become facilitators and activators.

11.  Thinking in the outcomes.
 Teacher training
 School money for projects
 Tools and resources for students
 Collect data

12.  Create plan for future vision.
 Committee discuss plans and goals.
 Budget review.
 Data collection.

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