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“A good hockey player skates to where the puck is. A great hockey player skates to where the puck is going to be” Wayne Gretzky – Professional Ice Hockey player. A Glimpse of the Future Software Developments for Education. Matthew Fox - Microsoft Mark A’Bear - Microsoft. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Matthew Fox - MicrosoftMark A’Bear - Microsoft
A Glimpse of the FutureSoftware Developments for Education
“A good hockey player skates to where the puck is. A great hockey player skates to where the puck is going to be”
Wayne Gretzky – Professional Ice Hockey player
Today’s World of Change
In the UK 98% of 12 year olds want
to do well at school
And yet only 38% look forward to going to school
There are over 160 million registered users of MySpace
(Oct 2007)
If MySpace were a country it would be the 7th largest
country in the world
The number of daily text messages
exceeds the population of the
planet
New technical information is
doubling every 2 years
Fibre optics will soon carry 10
trillion bits per second per strand
That is 1900 CDs or 150 million
phone calls every second
Digital Lifestyle
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Personalised learning | 21st Century skills | Raising standards
Click on the Surface logo for the video!
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Personalised learning | 21st Century skills | Raising standards
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Personalised learning | 21st Century skills | Raising standards
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Personalised learning | 21st Century skills | Raising standards
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Personalised learning | 21st Century skills | Raising standards
What’s the Education Story?
ExperienceCreat
e
Design
Share
EducationalServices
InstitutionalServices
PartnerServices
LiveServices
Software Plus Services
Try these resources todaySurfacehttp://www.microsoft.com/surface
Photosynthhttp://labs.live.com/photosynth/
Popflyhttp://www.popfly.ms/
Silverlighthttp://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/
Films for Learninghttp://www.filmsforlearning.org
Summary• We’re skating to where the puck is
going to be• Software + Services• What we’ve seen today is the tip of
the iceberg!• Go and try these applications today
Try these resources todaySurfacehttp://www.microsoft.com/surface
Photosynthhttp://labs.live.com/photosynth/
Popflyhttp://www.popfly.ms/
Silverlighthttp://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/
Films for Learninghttp://www.filmsforlearning.org
