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At the beginning of this year, I released five predictions for global education in 2008. How did I do?

It’s a mixed bag, ranging from being completely off to spot on… with some surprises, too!

Prediction #1:

Largely driven by the moderate success of OLPC, Linux will emerge as the platform of choice for K-12 [...]

The Philadelphia Inquirer reports their take of the top ten trends affecting education in 2005:

The browser-based application
Firefox
Wikipedia’s news reporting
The $100 laptop
Podcasting
A renewed debate on what students are doing on the Internet
OpenOffice.org 2.0
Web 2.0
Moodle
Blackboard’s takeover of WebCT

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