Future Scenarios of ICT in Education
Facer and Sandford’s 2010 paper introduced 3 future scenarios of how the education system can change and develop, specifically as the following: World 1: Trust Yourself A highly individualised world of contingent and shifting allegiances in which there is no support for collective responses to social problems, and in which individuals are free/required to take high levels of personal responsibility for their actions. World 2: Loyalty Points A world where relationships between people and the groups they belong to are managed by contracts, where rewards and benefits are achieved in response to contributions and where personal reputations are carefully managed within their employment/ community/religious groups associations. Individuals are required/enabled to find their place within these groupings. World 3: Only Connect A world organised around a collective understanding of interdependence between people, between individuals and machines, between individuals and ecosystems, in which th...