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

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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