An interesting article appeared at Ars Technica yesterday: A new salvo has been fired in the perennial war over Wikipedia‘s accuracy. Thomas Chesney, a Lecturer in Information Systems at the Nottingham University Business School, published the results of his own Wikipedia study in the most recent edition of the online journal First Monday, and he [...]

As part of their 50th anniversary, New Scientist published 50-year forecasts from over 70 scientists. A couple highlights (mostly cut-and-pasted shamelessly from the above link): Francis Collins: Genetic advances will allow entire generations of us to live happily into our hundreds Edward O. Wilson: The biggest leap in biogeography and conservation biology will be the [...]

Technology Review has an interview with Danny Hills, cofounder of Thinking Machines. In the 1980′s the company sought to develop the world’s first real artificial intelligence. They failed. Why? We look to our own minds and watch our patterns of conscious thought, reasoning, planning, and making analogies, and we think, “That’s thinking.” Actually, it’s just [...]

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Join us for the next Horizon Forum meeting! Tuesday, December 12, 12-3 p.m. Room 303, Coffman Memorial Union University of Minnesota, East Bank Campus 300 Washington Avenue, S.E. Minneapolis Dr. Scott McLeod, Director of the University Council for Educational Administration Center for the Advanced Study of Technology Leadership in Education (CASTLE), will discuss the skills [...]

Two articles surfaced recently regarding Second Life. First, CNN reports that over 60 educational organizations are using Second Life to explore how to promote learning in the virtual world. Whereas there is a concern that mainstay online education providers do not provide a sense of community or social interaction, virtual, three-dimensional online communities may fill [...]

The Sloan Consortium of online education institutions released its fourth annual report on the state of online learning in the United States. The report series asks key questions in regard to the extent of adoption and acceptance of online education. Among the findings: Online enrollment continues to grow, climbing to 3.2 million learners in 2006 [...]

“hschmidt07” reflects on Dewey and wonders: [...] how children should be educated in an unpredictable world, in an unending arena of expansion known as the age of information. The advent of this new face of society has evolving needs calling for many types of leadership. This is where I strongly agree with Dewey’s poignant statement [...]