Archive for June, 2007

Ten days of top ten lists

6/16/2007

Education Futures is about to transform and grow a bit, with a refocus on content, an additional editorial blogger and the introduction of guest bloggers. Expect big changes starting in July. A ten-day kickoff for Education Futures’ new direction is coming up! Beginning Monday, top ten lists of ideas and resources will be posted each [...]


ICT for development SIG

6/16/2007

Greg Sales and Jayson Richardson are looking for support in building an “ICT4D” special interest group for the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES) professional organization. A SIG would provide a mechanism that would bring together interested individuals to discuss and present on ICT issues. In order to do this, they need to recruit a [...]


Future of media: A projection toward 2050

6/15/2007

Echoing the spirit of Robin Sloan and Matt Thompson’s EPIC 2014, Casaleggio Associati has produced a short video on the Future of Media, where Google, Amazon and Second Life dominate the media world through business acquisitions, reality replication in virtual spaces, and reality design. Does the Eye of Osiris at the end of the video [...]


Bienvenida and welcome!

6/13/2007

Saludos! …to visitors from the UMN-FLACSO knowledge seminar! I hope that this blog will serve as good resource for exploring issues surrounding knowledge and innovation societies. There are three easy ways to navigate this site to find the information you’re interested in: Use the search box at the top of this page. Browse the list [...]


UMN-FLACSO knowledge seminar begins tonight

6/11/2007

Our joint UMN-FLACSO knowledge seminar will begin tonight!  (There are still a few seats available for Minnesota students — it’s not too late to register!) A growing glossary of key terms and ideas (in English and Spanish) is available at the course wiki.  More news and ideas by all participants will be posted on the [...]


Future of Education conference

6/6/2007

The University of Manitoba is hosting a free, virtual Future of Education Online Conference that will end June 8.  Live presentations will be archived, and discussion is encouraged via the “U of M” Learning Technologies Centre Moodle site: http://ltc.umanitoba.ca/moodle/course/view.php?id=12 From the organizers’ description of the conference: Tumultuous change is creating new opportunities for schools, colleges, universities, and corporations [...]


Photos from the JTET conference

6/2/2007

Here are three photos from the JTET conference in Debrecen, Hungary: Artists performed as part of one paper presentation. Our presentation on sustainable innovation. A monkey sat quietly in the corner during our workshop session…


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Paper cup tech

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 [...]


Open seminar 2.0 countdown continues…

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.


Off to Central Europe

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…!


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