Scott McMaster ED6620 Final Project: The Future of Education Dr. Elizabeth Murphy Memorial University

2. Time spent Learning?

3. Where is education headed? Sir Ken Richardson mentions the unpredictability of it in a TED conference on ‘How we Learn’.

4. Computing Technology Growth

5. Born Digital Generation

6. Ubiquitous Technologies

7. Meeting New Needs

8. ‘Age of Information’

9. Many voices, many ideas converging . . .

10. Working Together, building, modifying and rebuilding knowledge.

11. Multilingual and multicultural tools powered by individuals.

12. Knowledge is Socially Constructed Jean Piaget (1926) Lev Vygotsky (1962)

13. Global Knowledge Base

14. Open Source forging many connections

15. Worldwide Collaborative Learning

16. Connexions

17. MIT FREE Course Materials

18. Sites for collaborative education

19. OWL Institute

20. Interactive Open Education

21. Putting it all Together, Together

22. The Universe is a big Place to Observe

23. Costs of Technology

24. Give Open Source a Chance! Saying no to: Saying yes to:

25. Socialist vs. Capitalist Models

26. Knowledge as a Stock?

27. Knowledge as a Commodity?

28. Collaboration and Social Justice Karl Marx Thomas Dewey

29. Looking Forward Building New Identities

30. Open Source Social Systems

31. Knowledge comes from every level in every direction

32. Technology within us

33. Technology inside of our brains cells, networked to the entire world of knowledge, communicating and collaborating with others at an unimaginable pace!

34. Human Synapses Connecting to Global Social Networks

35. Wireless Access to the Brain

36. Final Note “How we shape and engineer the technology, tools, organization of knowledge, and virtual communities on the expanding Internet information infrastructure will directly affect the potential productivity, roles, and equity of opportunity of young people in the near and distant future, and thereby will affect the kind of society into which we evolve” (Hunter and Richards,2003, p.11).