Futurelab’s ‘blue skies’ series - intended to open up areas for debate, to provoke, challenge and stimulate new visions for education.
This report explores predictions about developments in digital technologies over the next 13 years, examines the implications for education, sets out some future scenarios and suggests how we might harness the changes.
There is overwhelming evidence that as ICT becomes part of everyday life the divisions in its use are strengthening rather than diminishing. This report explores why the digital divide remains a complex social problem.
What should the educational landscape of the future look like? Where, and with whom, should learning happen? This report argues for a move towards the network logic of the learning community.
We are currently witnessing a massive investment in the design and build of new schools to equip the UK education system for the 21st century. But how much of this effort has been inspired by an equally wide-reaching educational vision?
This report explores the relationship between the emergence of social software and the personalisation of education, suggesting that there is a changing view of what education is for, with a need for young people to develop skills for the evolving global knowledge economy.
Open source is an example of peer-production driven by collaborative modes of interaction and knowledge exchange. This paper discusses some of the ways in which these approaches might be applied in educational contexts.
This report sets out some of the challenges and opportunities that might form the basis for dialogue about personalisation, and the role of digital resources in enabling and shaping this arena. It also includes a 'Learner’s Charter' for a personalised learning environment.
