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I can't help feeling that this report belongs to the 'technozealot' category that one of our papers referred to. For example, "people expect to work wherever and whenever they want to". I don't think that has been most people's experience!

I found a different version of the report, based on pre-university education. Interestingly it had the same trends but in a different order. The short term technology for the classroom was:

+ BYOD (Bring your own device) programmes and tablets + tablets

Medium term: game-based learning + PLEs

4-5 years: AR (augmented reality) and natural user interfaces (computers responding to gestures, voice etc)

There was some attempt to justify all of this by assuring us that "students are increasingly evaluated on the success of the group dynamic". Again, I'm not sure where that actually happens.

 

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