Introducing Arthur Harkins

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I am pleased to announce that Dr. Arthur Harkins is teaming with me at Education Futures as a regular blogger.

A short bio: Arthur is an associate professor in international development education at the University of Minnesota and faculty director of the University’s graduate certificate in Innovation Studies. Arthur’s major interests lie in converging technologies and their effects on 1) education, 2) workforce requirements, and 3) civic life. Arthur and I are working together on Leapfrog education futures projects in:

  • North America: projected educational and social effects of Vinge’s and Kurzweil’s Technological Singularity;
  • Eastern Europe: development of Sustainable Innovation supported by knowledge-producing education;
  • China: projected uses of handheld, Internet-enabled devices for “ethical cheating” in classes and tests; And,
  • Latin America: deployment, with FLACSO Mexico, of a laboratory to act as a launchpad for developing systems-based educational futures.

With George Kubik, Arthur recently authored StoryTech: A Personalized Guidebook to the 21st Century. He has published numerous articles in On The Horizon, a refereed UK journal of educational futures. With George and me, he is writing an article that explores “tempogenesis” (intentional convergences of virtual time travel, proximal futures, grounded futures, and alternative presents).

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Dr. John Moravec is a faculty member in the Department of Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development and the Innovation Studies/Master of Liberal Studies graduate programs at the University of Minnesota. He is the principal of Education Futures LLC; a co-founder of the Horizon Forum, a roundtable on the future of education at all levels; and is the editor of Education Futures. He can be emailed at john@educationfutures.com.

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