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As human society steps into the digital era of the 21st century, almost all forms of industries have been impacted and influenced by the surge of modern technological developments such as social media, the internet, mobile computing and smart infrastructure. However, our education system, grounded in millennia of traditions and values, are seemingly faltering behind the rapid rise of modern technology. With technological platforms such as social media, portable computers, and the cloud, human interactions have evolved into a newer phase of instantaneousness in which everything is increasingly immediate and visual due to the overwhelming influx of information constantly thrown at us. Therefore, it is to expected that the way human learn and acquire information must adapt to this speedy transition. The education system, obstructed by traditions, legislations, politics, and outdated methods can not adapt to this change in learning style, and ultimately, loses its engagement factor to students and learners. That is the issue of the current state of our education system: too many students are losing interest in learning while being crammed with information in methods that push them even further from truly comprehending the knowledge. The solution to this lies in centralizing an education reform movement that revolves around integrating modern educational technology into a new platform of education standards for academic institutions to follow, and this is where Education for Now comes in.

Education for Now is a non-profit organization whose goal is to revolutionize the face of education by once again implementing the factor of engagement into academic learning by adding technology into the equation. Derived from intensive research, Education for Now has managed to invent a set of standards called FUTUREed that could be implemented widely into academic curricula in order to create a central initiative that could see our education system enters a new transition with technology at its core. Technology implementation in education is nothing new, but as of now, it is still excessively sporadic, unreliable, uncontrolled, and inconsistent. That is the problem Education for Now aims to fix with our action plan AEON:

The ultimate goal of AEON is to popularize this new educational platform, titled FutureEd, within the educational system of the United States and potentially globally.

AEON consists of four steps:

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Awareness: Raising attention from education leaders and legislatures by giving a voice to students and showing the reality of the disadvantages between the current education system and the modern student’s learning style. This step entails the demonstration of the effectiveness in implementing technology into the curriculums of K-12 to the college level.

Experiment: After creating a solid foundation and center of attention, Education for Now will propose partnerships with certain educational institutions to implement the FutureEd curriculum within the mentioned institutions for the physical experimentation and documentation of the positive consequences it brings.

Obtain: Following successful experimentation of FutureEd, an official proposal for educational legislative standards based on the new curriculum will be drafted with the goal of obtaining popularized implementation of FutureEd within the local education system starting from local districts of Los Angeles and eventually extending to the state of California itself.

Necessitate: With the successful implementation of FutureEd within the state of California, Education for Now will propose towards the federal government the implementation and necessitation of the curriculum’s standards within the American educational system from the primary, secondary, and higher education level.

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  1. Tony I love your idea! While reading the description though, I realized that you should also address how students in low income schools would also use technology. Maybe in school, they would have access to technology but once they go home, many students go into different world where they have other responsibilities. If a student, lets say in the poorer part of LA, needs access to a computer, he or she would have to travel to the public library. This may be difficult because maybe they have to take care of their siblings. On the other hand, books in public schools are free and even though they are a pain to carry, poor students don’t worry much about the cost. I really like your idea and feel it could work for certain students but not all.

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