This was originally posted on June 24, 2005 in my blog Schooling ≠ Education.
We’ve just started a project with the Nebraska Department of Education focused on rethinking the high school experience. I’ve created a web site for them with a number of links related to the topic.
Since the above was posted almost 19 years ago many of the links and ideas are older concepts — but they are still interesting to scan as some are still relevant today (which speaks to the slow or non-existent changes to schooling). Back then, web 2.0 and social networks were ‘new.’ The concept of virtual worlds (metaverse) not yet on the horizon; the iPod was new (and cool); there were no smart phones! And it was before I wrote about the technical forces influences change everywhere – social, mobile, analytics and cloud.
Those forces and more still influence life in all western societies. I’ll need to write about the updates on this topic soon and it would be interesting to see what kind of list of resources I would come up with if I had to create that today.
