Tom Vander Ark has a column in the Huffington Post reflecting on how changes in technology have hit 15 crucial points, that "despite resilience, everything will change." The five most important, in my opinion, focus on learning:
Learning is being transformed by five complementary changes:
• Age cohorts to individual learners: the old model of grouping student by age and teaching them all the same stuff in the same way is slowing giving way to individualized instruction and progress.
• Textbooks to digital content: print is slowing giving way to digital content as access improves.
• Sequential to adaptive: the one way slog through flat content is giving way to customized learning where students move at their own pace and learn in a mode most productive for them.
• Annual tests to instant feedback: like games, digital learning provides instant performance feedback and motivational reward mechanisms.
• Institutions to networks: purpose-built learning networks are replacing or partnering with schools that evolved over time.
The second point I see being influenced by the recent release of the iPad. The rest, though, seem to be moving a bit slower without additional government reform and incentives.
The second point I see being influenced by the recent release of the iPad. The rest, though, seem to be moving a bit slower without additional government reform and incentives. 
