Our Virtual Flexischooling Sharon Currie Sharon shares her experience of educating her son Greg. Faced with a range of challenges that make the traditional school environment impossibility, Greg appears to

Sir Ken communicates ideas very clearly and well. He challenges the obsession with the linear narrative of education. Is he a CPE-PEN member yet?! Creativity expert Sir Ken Robinson

Maintaining futures expertise report This report is informed by expert interviews with seven futures practitioners, who agreed to share their views, and by desk research. The report aims to

http://www.cisco.com/web/about/citizenship/socio-economic/globalEd.html  There is currently some very interesting papers and resources on the Cisco site looking at Educational Futures. Emergent ideas are very much moving towards the CPE-PEN vision

The annual Horizon Report describes the continuing work of the NMC’s Horizon Project, a research-oriented effort that seeks to identify and describe emerging technologies likely to have... download

'A perfect storm' and the strategy for its aftermath November 2009. MerlinJohn. From Futurelab's November newsletter. Futurelab: www.futurelab.org.uk World economic systems are in turmoil and global warming is becoming

Do click on to these IU articles. Its rare that you find mainstream tackling positively some of the 'holy cows' that constrain our schooling systems. This is progress

Sir Ken Robinson on Creativity in Our Big Earth Came across this video from Ken Robisnon 'Creativity, Crux of Education state of public education and its future' on the

http://tiny.cc/mvNpv New survey reveals children's vision for schools of the future Over half of primary school children think that schools in the future will be totally different from today

Peter Wilby The Guardian, Tuesday 22 September 2009 http://tiny.cc/iv2Zz David Hargreaves has recently finished his work on the curriculum and, if he has his way, secondary schooling could

OnlineDegreePrograms.org: 15 Predictions for the Library of Tomorrow Thanks to Amber Johnson of Online Degree Programs for alerting us to this article on their site 15 Predictions for the Library

These Futurelab sessions are always thought provoking and push at the boundaries of mainstream eductaional thinking. The Future of Education: Research Discussion Day 10am - 4pm, Tuesday 19th May 2009 British

From Teachers TV It's The Future Of Education Week On Teachers TV This week it's The Future of Education Week on Teachers TV. Some interesting titles: 

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A website has been developed to support the delivery of NCSL's Building Schools for the Future (BSF) and Primary Capital (PCP) Leadership programmes. Aimed at encouraging wider discussion

New website asks the general public for their views What do you think about the future? For example, do you think that everyone will need to speak a foreign

What's Next 2008: Ten Predictions for the Future of Public Education. Edutopia predicts: What's in store for the coming school year. by Jennifer Foote Sweeney.

Beyond Current Horizons is a joint programme conducted by the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) and education innovators Futurelab. The programme is tasked with building a

The Times online has this  intriguing article by Tom Hodgkinson, editor of the Idler (orginally featured in the Sunday Times, 11 May.)http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/education/article3907246.ece  'The quirky methods behind TV’s QI

 MANCHESTER, ENGLAND—May 13, 2008—Blackboard Inc. (NASDAQ: BBBB), a leading provider of educational enterprise technology, released a report today on major challenges and opportunities facing institutions of higher education

The RSA is considering a major new initiative in the form of a campaign for schooling fit for the 21st century. An Education Campaign would be based around a

Education at risk: Fall out from a Flawed Report is an article from Tamim Ansary a contributing writer to Edutopia. She writes about the 'Nation at Risk'report of 

I posted Shift Happens 2.0 in March but have just come across a UK version. If you haven't already seen it - its worth a look

Schools as we know them are past their sell by date as more and more people begin to recognise. If we have to build institutional learning spaces with