We have stepped across an event horizon in which accelerating rates of technical change and the proliferation of “cognitive” tools have outpaced our personal, professional and/or collective ability to stay on top of the diversity and utility of these rapidly speciating systems.
Strategic planning for education (as much as for the broader world) will be inflected by a reorientation and pivot away from static or certain endpoints of closed systems and unambiguous definitions. Notwithstanding that uncertainty (and risk) is a key principle and driver of both value and change, a critical absence of unifying strategy and well-mapped future trajectory suggests that accelerating rates of change provides both problem and solution.
That is, and all said with one eye on the rank intractability of instrumentalising direction and goals in such a turbulent environment, it is not the adoption or inhabitation of any particular technology or iterative waypoint that will provide most value here. Education in strategies for navigating and negotiating constant change is the single most useful skill anyone can have at this point in technological history.
I expect curriculum development around adaptive strategy, and, the technologies to support it.
Daedelus Kite 