The Horizon Report examines emerging technologies that could/will play a major role in transforming education.
Educational uses of the two topics on the far-term horizon, collective intelligence and social operating systems, are understandably rarer; however, there are examples in the worlds of commerce, industry and entertainment that hint at coming use in academia within four to five years.
We have
Grassroots Video
Collaboration webs
Mobile broadband
Data Mashups
Collective intelligence
Social operating systems
These are becoming the tools of engagement and as a consequence releases us to each fulfill our true potential?
On Collective Intelligence the report states
Two new forms of information stores are being created in real time by thousands of people in the course of their daily activities, some explicitly collaborating to create collective knowledge stores like the Wikipedia and Freebase, some contributing implicitly through the patterns of their choices and actions. The data in these new information stores has come to be called “collective intelligence” and both forms have already proven to be compelling applications of the network. Explicit knowledge stores refine knowledge through the contributions of thousands of authors; implicit stores allow the discovery of entirely new knowledge by capturing trillions of key clicks and decisions as people use the network in the course of their everyday lives.
Nobody is as clever as everybody
We have to ask the question - where does our future productivity come from? The answer is our children.
Invest in the future.
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