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