Microsoft released a video earlier this month entitled Productivity Future Vision - it is 6 minutes long but worth watching: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6cNdhOKwi0
Placed 5-10 years in the future, much of the video looks quite fanciful. However, many have pointed out that 10 years ago there was no YouTube, no Gmail, Google Maps, or Google Docs, no Skype, Facebook or MySpace, and certainly no iPhone, iPad, or Android tablets. Think how we might have viewed a video chat on a wifi tablet to an iPhone in 2001 - conducted by two Form II students.
An earlier "vision" video from 2009 begins with some interesting ideas about international collaboration in the classroom: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5X2PxtvMsU
Wireless, always connected, built for collaboration, and touch surface interfaces both large and small dominate these visions of the future.
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