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

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.

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.

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?

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.

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“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

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.