Doug Lieux imagines what his classroom will look like in 25 years. He predicts that by 2041, all students will have laptops and iPads and technology companies like Apple and Microsoft will dominate the educational marketplace. Literature classes will move away from British and American classics and focus more on authors from other cultures like Edwidge Danticat and Khaled Housseini. History classes will adjust their timelines and focus more on revisionist history from different perspectives. He hopes society will have moved away from fossil fuels by then and developed a better ability to understand other countries. By 2041, Lieux will be retired at 71 years old and no longer teaching in the classroom.

1. Doug Lieux
What my classroom will look
like in 25 years?

2. • by the year 2041, there will be laptops and iPads in every students’
possession.
• Apple and Microsoft will have fully ingrained themselves into the
educational marketplace much like the Borg in Star Trek TNG.
Technology

3. • There will be a movement away from the ‘classics’ of British and
American Literature and towards more ethnically centrist writing.
• Edwidge Danticat and Khaled Housseini will rule the day.
English

4. • Change in timelines for each of the US History classes
• US I-American Revolution to World War I
• US II-Treaty of Versailles to Present day
• Focus on Revisionist History
• Gone are the days of ‘History written by the winners.’
History

5. • Hopefully we will have kicked the whole fossil fuels habit.
• I would also hope that we as a nation can start to get to the point
where we can listen to and understand our adversaries around the
world.
Technological Advances

6. • in 2041 I will be 71 years old. By that time, I hope that my classroom
is somebody else’s classroom, and the only place I am driving my fuel
cell minivan is to see the grandkids, or haul on down to Fenwick
Island for a couple of months.
Lastly, I offer this: