1. Channels for the future
Social connections
-students
-other people's children
-authors
-generating conversations
Social media
-YouTube searches: future of ed, future of learning (example)
-comments under youtube, Ooyala vids, or other media, "share this" options.
-RSS feeds: rely on other people's active curation (requires care + feeding)
Also Flipboard; Google Currents; Zite
-social bookmarking (Delicious, Diigo)
-Twitter: immediacy, firehose; track tags + users
-discussion groups
-search alerts: Google Scholar, Google Search
Magazines etc: Wired, Pop Sci, IEEE Spectrum, Science, Nature, Science News+, NPR, Inc., Fast Company, Make, HBR
Other screens
-hobby sites (ex: Hackaday)
f2f events
-consumer electronics shows
-conferences: information + dialog. Ex: futurists conference (Pop!Tech, SXSW, Educause, NERCOMP, Garner Symposium)
Podcasts
-CBC, Cory Doctorow
Books!
-biographies
-fiction (dystopias; example)
2. Trends
-federal legislation states rights
-heat wave global warming
-SUNY schools Working w/Banner to ease inter-campus registration (SICAS)
-Leap Motion device 3d, gesture-based - "already exists, no?"
-student loan interest rate decision Could split up college student market; costs? (II)
-Kurzweil's longetivity theory People living longer; meaning...?
-Penn State scandal Disrupt institutional business models
-" " " monitoring fail Institutional culture of dissent
-"big data" coined How big will this be?
-gene therapy family experience More tailored therapy
-Apple iBooks Author informal publishing
-MOOC story more MOOCs?
-tenure discussion new faculty models
-challenges to learning disabled (LD) future of LD?
-UVa, Dragas competing visions of implementing future
-AT+T announcement about data plans different markets, US vs Europe; network is the computer
3. Scenarios
MOOCs: taking over education; failing
Longetivity: extra long life; shortened life