An invitation to the next Horizon Forum meeting at the University of Minnesota: Education and the Technological Singularity January 27, 2010 11:30am – 1:30pm 250 Wulling Hall (U of M East Bank) At the next Horizon Forum, you are invited to join the discussion, moderated by Arthur Harkins and John Moravec, with special guests, as [...]

Did you know the Education Futures timeline of education is Creative Commons licensed? You’re invited to share the love! Simply cut-and-paste this text into your blog or website (assumes a column width of 500px): <div align=”center”><iframe src=”http://www.educationfutures.com/flashtimeline/index-500.html” width=”500″ height=”310″ scrolling=”no” frameborder=”0″></iframe><p>Source: <a href=”http://www.educationfutures.com/resources/timeline”>Education Futures</a></p></div> …and, it should create this: Source: Education Futures

At last Thursday’s UMN-FLACSO co-seminar, several Latin American students posed questions regarding inequities in education that might emerge due to limited access to cutting-edge technologies: How do you deal with (social) exclusion, when you talk about partnering with technology? How do you counterweight lack of creativity among slow adopters of technology? Slow adopters or those [...]

Caption: Working late into this evening, the instructional team in Minnesota, Mexico, Ecuador and Chile (that’s a span of nearly 9,000 km among the conferencing sites!) tests various video and audio conferencing connections.

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…!