We are not denying the fact that other factors (like society, political, government, policies, etc) are not affecting education. The manner that the brainstorming session yesterday was structured in such a way that we were picking up the trends from a Technology viewpoint (by watching the video). The list identifies how the trend of technology will influence the education in one way or another.

I agree somehow that the list may not be exhaustive. That is intentionally designed that way, isn’t it? Brainstorming does not bring us to the end-point, brainstorming gives us the starting point for discussion and refinement. I hope we will be fine-tuning the list in the following ways:
• Categorization (putting related trends together as a group)
• Merging or eliminate some points (some points are somehow duplicated)
• Insertion of new trends (if we have missed out)

There is something in my opinion, not so explicitly addressed in the list, was “how Web 2.0 affects education”. Technology advances and we are not restricted to the conventional classroom environment, whereby education is uni-directional. Web 2.0 introduces a concept that everybody is learning from everybody. If this is the way to go, how would Web 2.0 affects us (as educators)? Do we need to re-structure all our teaching materials? How would that affect the assessment systems? Is the current IT infrastructure able to address the needs of the huge increased number of content contributors? These are questions we need to address.