Serendipity35

A reader suggested I look at this "2006-2016 Map of Future Forces Affecting Education" from the Knowledgeworks Foundation (a group I was not familiar with, who have connections to education in Ohio) and the Institute for the Future ("founded in 1968 by a group of former RAND Corporation researchers with a grant from the Ford Foundation to take leading-edge research methodologies into the public and business sectors").

The map online is interactive with links and discussion areas and the opportunity to email topics from within it to colleagues.

So what kinds of forces do they see affecting education in the future? Health care, games, unbundled education, collective assessment, an expanded learning economy, media savvy youth, cheap mobile devices... they've got a lot of buzz packed in there and some things I haven't thought about at all.

There's a quick video demo. They don't say that the map contains all of the answers or perfectly predicts the future. Who could say that?  It's certainly provocative and a good conversation starter for discussion on the topic and suggests tools and forces you might not have brought into a conversation.

Make sure you look at he "compass view" too. There's a lot going on that you don't see at first glance.