School 2.0 is a new way for people to get an education. No longer will people need to go away to school, they can learn what knowledge they need online. Schools of the future will be able to reach more students. They can become more focused on certain disciplines (would MIT have to offer language courses or could it just offer math and engineering type courses?).
I wonder how School 2.0 would affect elementary and high schools. NCLB would be pretty much obsolete, I think. Students who want an education could certainly get one, but what would happen to the children who only want to play online? Too may parents have no clue as to what their children are doing online--they don't monitor the kids. I fear we would end up with a society of super-educated people at one end of the spectrum, gamers at the other end, and very little in between.
Then again, maybe "Big Brother" could take control of kids' computers until their lessons are done, an idea that would seem to run counter to personal liberty.
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