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Through any lens schools are complex places. A melting pot of human, social, political, economic, technological, physical and philosophical tensions. At once the stronghold of our cultural traditions and facilitators of our future wellbeing, schools serve as pillars of stability constructed at the event horizon between our now and our tomorrow. Perhaps at this point in time more than ever is this tension between the role that schools play in indoctrinating our youth into the ways of society at odds with the imperative to prepare them for their futures.

Challenge to educators re integrating educational technologies. From another Diigo group.

As a practical outworking of this reflection and anticipation, I encourage you to set aside some time to tidy up your online presence. And perhaps even encourage others around you to do the same.

Purpose: This lecture, reflecting on future roles, posits the potential dawning of a "great age of librarians," if librarians make the conceptual shift of focusing on their own skills and activities rather than on their libraries.

At the Center for Future Storytelling, researchers envision how technology can give people more control over TV programs they encounter and stories they follow.

traditional notions of education are not coping with the content explosion generated by the rise of the knowledge economy

An interesting post on the blog: Spotlight on Digital Media and Learning

"As little as we know about the future for which we are preparing our students, it is clear that it will be a place that is governed by information. Accessing, processing, building with, and communicating that information is how we will all make our livings."

Steve's online presetation on KnowledgeBank will be based around these trends.

Phorecast podcasts of the best innovators, designers, consultants and relevant thinkers with the exclusive goal of bringing your business model into the future.

Pew have interviewed almost 900 internet stakeholders on their perspective on how the internet is affecting human intelligence and the ways information is being shared and rendered. This page contains links to the report downloads.

What impact is digital interactive technology having on education? And what will the classroom of the future look like? These are just some of the questions that were raised at the 2010 Australian Council for Computer Education conference.

My early thoughts on the book Flash Foresight: How to see the invisible and do the impossible. There's a lot in here for edutech.

Watch "A Day Made of Glass" and take a look at Corning's vision for the future with specialty glass at the heart of it.

Ask the average adult to describe a school and you are likely to get similar responses. There will be a focus on the places and spaces in which their education occurred, the teachers who taught, the rows of desks, the daily schedule of classes and breaks. But what is the future of schools?