What will school life be like in the year 2010. This brief podcasts describes one possible scenario. It was prepared as part of my presentation to a group of policy-makers on 23rd June 2006.
The idea of this was to update a similar type of scenario published by the UK's Department for Education and Skills a few years ago in a document entitled "Fulfilling the Potential".� The podcast was made as part of a presentation I gave to policy-makers in the UK on 23rd June 2006.
The year is 2010; Kirsty is 14 years old. All of the technology alluded to in the podcast is already available, and all I've done is to imagine how it might be applied in education. Interestingly enough, I was given a guided tour around BT's Innovation Unit a couple of days after making this podcast, and they are experimenting with mobile phones that can be worn around your neck, and which you can log in to -- so you leave it at work and pick up any unit when you return, ie you don't have your own.
The devices which BT are trying out can also locate people. For example, you can say "Find headmaster", and it will tell you where the headmaster is.
Credits
Music
Intro: Little Dancing Girl by Louis Vig; outro: What If by Louis Vig; both available from www.podsafeaudio.com; "ping" noise is cling1.wav from http://www.pacdv.com/sounds/mechanical_sound_effects/, whilst the car starting up is car_start_up_1.wav from http://www.pacdv.com/sounds/transportation_sounds.html; the sci-fi electronic effect is called Electronicfx5.mp3, but I cannot trace where I found it on the web.
Kirsty
Kirsty was played by Naomi Joseph
Links to the podcast may be found here.
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