Patrick and Alex welcome their friends and hosts of the Unprofessional Development podcast, Tudisco and Mealey, to use their expertise as educators to evaluate predictions from the past about what teaching would be like in the future. We evaluate a series of predictions from 1900, 1927, 1931, and 1958. This conversation has far more focus on pneumatic tubes, eugenics, Mad Max, and ICBMs than you might expect. 

Theme song is “Satellites” by Swenny.

Links:

• The Unprofessional Development Podcast 
• Mealey's Twitter and Instagram
• Ladies Home Journal Article: What May Happen in the Next Hundred Years 
• Procrustes, or the Future of English Education 
• The Educational Impacts of the Eugenics Movement 
• The Racist Beginnings of Standardized Testing 
• Closer Than We Think: 40 Visions Of The Future World According To Arthur Radebaugh 
• School of the Future from 1967 Short: 1999 AD 
• Simon Ramo: A New Technique of Education 
• Simon Ramo’s Patent for the Method and apparatus for interactive, computer-based, automatically adaptable learning
• The History of the Future of Education 

Mistopian Podcast on Social Media

• Official Website
• Podcast YouTube 
• Podcast Instagram
• Podcast Bluesky
• Alex's Instagram
• Alex's Twitter 
• Patrick's Zoopy