Archive for May, 2007

Designing education for sustainable innovation

5/31/2007

Presented at the JTET conference this morning: Arthur M. Harkins, Ph.D. (USA) John Moravec, Ph.D. (USA) University of Minnesota Abstract This presentation is concerned with complex subjects, but presents them in ways that audiences can understand and professionally contemplate. The core concept of the paper is “sustainable innovation,” which presumes the necessity for continuous innovation [...]


Singularity Institute blog launched

5/29/2007

The Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence (SIAI) has launched a blog covering research and outreach updates, videos, articles, papers, events, goals, and relevant science and technology news. SIAI is a not-for-profit research institute in Palo Alto, California, with three major goals: furthering the nascent science of safe, beneficial advanced artificial intelligence (self-improving systems) through research [...]


Off to Central Europe

5/25/2007

Posts will be sparse over the next couple weeks as I’ll be busy: revisiting Budapest, spelunking about Moravian wine cellars, investigating the towns and castles of Slovakia… oh, and presenting at next week’s JTET conference in Debrecen, Hungary…!


Random tinkering as a pathway to innovation

5/24/2007

Nassim Nicholas Taleb writes for Forbes that: Things, it turns out, are all too often discovered by accident–but we don’t see that when we look at history in our rear-view mirrors. The technologies that run the world today (like the Internet, the computer and the laser) are not used in the way intended by those [...]


Creation wins, educators lose

5/24/2007

Ei, chihuahua… University of Minnesota-Morris professor PZ Myers writes on the follies of a Christian science fair. The winner? “Creation Wins!!!” The losers? Ignorant parents, teachers and judges…


Technology Evangelist: Kurzweil at Killer App Expo

5/23/2007

The folks at the Technology Evangelist blog did a remarkable job in recording Ray Kurzweil‘s talk at the Killer App Expo and feeding video to the net. Benjamin J. Higginbotham writes: Ray Kurzweil is a pioneer in the fields of optical character recognition, health, artificial intelligence, transhumanism, technological singularity and futurism. At the Killer App [...]


New AERA SIG: Applied Research for Virtual Environments for Learning

5/22/2007

Brock Dubbels is looking for more people that belong to (or that can soon join) the American Educational Research Association (AERA) – for a Special Interest Group (SIG) especially for 3D Virtual Worlds, such as Second Life. http://www.simteach.com/wiki/index.php?title=ARVEL The Applied Research for Virtual Environments for Learning (ARVEL) special interest group at AERA, “is a community [...]


The knowledge seminar as mentioned in Latin American online media

5/22/2007

(Cross posted from FLACSO-UMN Knowledge Seminar blog…) More on the knowledge seminar…


A fair(y) use tale

5/22/2007

An oh-so-painful lesson from Eric Faden at Bucknell University on the principles of copyright… View This Video on You Tube


eLearning Games and Simulations workshop

5/21/2007

For those of us in Minneapolis/St. Paul, this looks good: eLearning Games and Simulations workshop May 24: 8:30 – 4:00 Normandale Community College Learn what your students already know Games and simulations are powerful tools – changing the way we learn Hands-on Instruction Enables You to Play the Games Yourself Seated at your own computer, [...]


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ICTs for Peace and Reconciliation

While doing research with Dr. Edward Brantmeier, I ran across this interesting information from Cole and Crawford (2007) in an article called “Building peace through information and communication technologies.” The table below details some of the authors’ main points. Ways of Promoting Peace and Reconciliation through ICTs Examples of ICTs Provide information Internet connectivity Mobile [...]


Horizon Forum mini-conference presentations

The Horizon Forum held a “mini-conference” on April 30, 2007. Here are several of the documents presented at the focused discussion on the future of PK-17 education in Minnesota. Tom Tapper, Superintendent, Owatonna Public Schools: After righting the reforms, are baby steps enough? Arthur Harkins and John Moravec: Debriefing of trip to China and demonstration [...]


The Leapfrog Principle (in Chinese)

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