A great blog, Paleo-Future, has emerged over the past couple months. The site provides “a look into the future that never was” –often for good reason. Here’s one: Bill Gates’ vision of the future classroom.
Matt writes:
The paleo-future of 1995 is filled with ethnically diverse students academically engaged by the high-tech presentations of [...]
Archive for March, 2007
The futures that never happened
Final defense on April 6
And, yes, it will be in 3-D!
Relationships among scientific paradigms
A collaborative work by Kevin Boyack, Dick Klavans and W. Bradford Paley maps the relationships among scientific paradigms through an analysis of published works in 2003. Seed Magazine has a link to a much larger JPEG (5.3MB) as well as a description of how the image was constructed.
Prints of the image are also being [...]
Off to Mexico City
I’m off to Mexico City until Wednesday. This video gives me something to think about as I wait in line to get screened at the airport…
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Un paso hacia los nuevos paradigmas de la educación
My 12 March 2007 presentation for FLACSO Mexico is now available at SlideShare:
Very special thanks goes to Gemma Punti for translating the slides! Additional gratitude goes to Giovanna Valenti, Benjamin Temkin, Cristobal Cobo and Arlene Arciniega for organizing the event.
Google zoom
Privacy issues aside, this is pretty darn neat. Apparently, with a little trick, you can sometimes zoom in a bit further than Google Maps suggests you can…
Technologies and education in Latin America
At Monday’s Horizon Forum meeting, Dr. Ursula Zurita (FLACSO Mexico) presented her research on social participation and educating for social participation in Distrito Federal and her plans for further investigation nationwide in Mexico. Dr. Cristobal Cobo (FLACSO Mexico) followed-up with a presentation and discussion on technologies and education in Latin America. Dr. Arthur [...]
Politics and present problems of education in Mexico
(English version)
I will give a talk about Teaching and leading in the 21st Century: A New Paradigm of knowledge production at FLACSO Mexico on March 12:
The convergence of globalization, emergence of the knowledge society and accelerating change contribute to what the presenter terms a New Paradigm of knowledge production in education. The New Paradigm [...]
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