I have just returned from this event, Learning in the Network Society, held  by the Austrian Ministry of Education, in Vienna. I gave a talks entitled: Towards a new settlement: young people’s life-worlds, learning and school change. I tried to bring together 2 key discourses of change in recent Education Policy and Research, ‘The Creativity Agenda’ and research around Digital Cultures, in order explore how both fields – which in different ways have a new and distinctive sense of the agency of young people – influence and are influenced by contemporary change in Schools.