| David Pearce Snyder, Life-Styles Editor of The
futurist magazine, is a data-based forecaster whose thousands of seminars
and workshops on strategic thinking have been attended by representatives
from most of the Fortune 500 companies, and form local and federal government
agencies, educational institutions and trade associations. Before entering
private practice as a consulting futurist in 1981, Mr. Snyder was Chief
of Information Systems, and later, Senior Planning Officer for the U.S.
Internal Revenue Service, where he designed and managed the Service's
Strategic Planning System.
In his programs to educators, he explains now that mature information
technology has actually begun to transform the American workplace, public
schools will have to undertake a dramatic shift in their instructional
methods if they are to provide all students with a mastery of the information-handling
skills that will be required by most jobs in the post-industrial workplace.
Snyder describes how America's schools will survive "test-mania,"
to re-invent themselves by intergrating project work, community service
and contextual learning with personal information technology.
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