Predictions for the future are hard to make.
Clay Shirky
http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2009/03/newspapers-and-thinking-the-unthinkable/
Interesting
Exploration.. From our current Bearings to the Future
Desk top ownership down 71 - 41 %
laptop 65 - 88%
More than 90% use
- library
- presentation Software
- Social NEtworking
- Text Messaging
Withing a year 63% will have smart phones
2 new blogs, 7 computers sold, 1347 youtube
Facbook is the most populous country in the world
(250 million)
Per month-- 66 thousand years of time on Social Networking.
In the Cloud
Drigo, Live Audience , Zoho, and many tother tools.
Zephyr Teach out.. Washington Post
Cringley - Higher could be like Itunes.
The Wired Campus - PBS NPR have lectures on line.
Will Amazon do it?
Drivers – Technology and Constructivism
New Drivers – Mobile Technology, Cloud Technology, NetGens (Social Networking)
Learning - Formal - informal - Virtual
Whole campus is part of the whole fabric
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What is an environment
- Sense of place and purpose
- Anywhere anytime any place
- Mix of planned and unplanned
- Range of participants, Systems and forces
- Dynamic flux of roles
Learning resources practices spaces
Classrooms - old Chalkboards, Overhead.
new Dynamic , Connected Participatory and unpredictable.
Participatory - unpredictability
Trends
- HUman factors
- Verbs no nouns
- Community Infrainstructure
- Multipurpose rooms
- Participation-enabling design
- Tech outfitting
Challenges
Design, Perception, Cost Support, Distraction, Assessment
Overview
Content Tools
Activity