Scenarios for Pervasive Learning in 2015
- Inspiration: 2006-2016 Map of Future Forces affecting education.
I am posting/sharing this video because it has made an impact on my doctoral research.
KnowledgeWorks Foundation and the Institute for the Future present the 2006-2016 Map of Future Forces affecting education.
Created by a range of experts and analysts, the map is a forecast of the future of education. Watch the video that explores the map and join the discussion at http://www.kwfdn.org/map
- Future Scenarios: Community Value Networks in Education
Public schools become hubs in value networks: Lower network-coordination costs make it cost-effective to meet the needs and desires of “long-tail” niche markets in industries as diverse as music, health, and education. Numerous and diverse niche markets of learners become targets for all sorts of providers of learning experiences in the expanding learning economy (public, private, parochial, charter, home and other informal schools, and commercially based providers). Value network mapping becomes an important tool for tracking the exchange of tangible and intangible learning assets that flow between public schools and the rest of the learning economy. These exchanges create richer relationships between public schools and the community.
- Disruptive Technologies - 2025
The National Intelligence Council has released a preliminary report describing “Six Technologies with Potential Impacts on US Interests to [the year] 2025.” What is most interesting is that the “Internet of Things” or, ubiquitous computing is one of the items on the list. I am curious how education and learning will fit into this scenario?
NIC - Disruptive Civil Technologies
Through a process of online discussions, clustering, development of technology descriptors, screening, and prioritizing, SRIC-BI Explorer and ScanTM analysts down-selected from 102 potentially disruptive technologies. They identified the following six technologies as most likely to enhance or degrade US national power out to 2025:
Biogerontechnology
Energy Storage Materials
Biofuels and Bio-Based Chemicals
Clean Coal Technologies
Service Robotics
The Internet of Things.
- Metrics: IDC information overload chart
I am wondering how these statistics can be compared with technology enhance learning. What will be the amount of useful information created for eduction/learning purposes?
- Past Perfect: Printing a Book
It is useful to reflect on past developments in a particular field in order to understand just how far we have come. When watching this video, on how books were printed in the mid-to-late 1940’s, it is fascinating to compare this to current publishing practices. I am curious how current educational practices will be perceived in the future. Will people (in the future) look back unto our current state of education and learning and wonder how inefficient and primitive our educational systems were?
Printing a Book, Old School from Armin Vit on Vimeo.
- Reference: The Furture of the Mobile Phone as a Platform
Taran Rampersad shares his insight on the following: The Future of the Mobile Phone as a Technology Platform | KnowProSE.com
On the Digital Divide discussion list, the mobile phone versus PC discussion came up again. Despite how much I hate mobile phones (a funny thing considering how I have been involved with them), the truth is that I do not hate the phones themselves - I really hate are things that people do with them. That said, they are the technology platform that will make the most significant impact in the next 5 years. Why?
I need to read this article again and reflect on how this will influence my research.
- I have been reflecting…
I have been reflecting on how the easts have used the technologies and how lessened the importance of education. I need to think about this a little more and see how this really pangs out. listen
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- Mobile Perspectives: A Mobile Phone in Every Hand by 2020
The following quotes inspire much thought about mobile phones in developing economies.
“The mobile is to India what the motor car was to America,” says social scientist Shiv Viswanathan. It has opened up the world to the mohalla and vice versa. “There’s a tremendous opening up of space,” he says. But does more networking automatically mean more productivity?
The mobile phone in India’s pocket can do all this and more — fishermen wanting a weather update or the location of the best catch; hospitals contacting patients without a permanent address; matchmaking companies dispatching profiles of potential mates to subscribers; SMSes on the Sensex. Information, services, profits - you name it, you have it, in the palm of your hand.
Read more here: India’s new mantra: Talk more, work more: The Times of India
- Social Networking: PennStates Perspective
Social Networking in Higher Education | Terra Incognita - A Penn State World Campus Blog
I am collecting references and inspiration of trends emerging in education. Here is one reference:
Open educational resources and personalized learning environments are hot topics these days in higher education and you’ve seen many related discussions here on Terra Incognita about these subjects. This idea of openness and personalization is something that I’m extremely passionate about, but from a slightly different perspective – social networking.
- Conference: MobileHCI 2008 - Amsterdam
I am enroute to the MobileHCI conference in which I will conduct our MobiMundi Workshop. While at the conference I will also be conducting expert interviews for my research. There are some incredibly bright individuals working in mobile industries present at this conference and I look forward to learning from them.
