Archive for August, 2007

One Laptop Per Child XO prototype at Siggraph 2007

8/12/2007

Matthew Hockenberry of creativesynthesis.net demonstrates the One Laptop Per Child’s fourth production prototype of the $100 laptop initiative at SIGGRAPH 2007: (Video by Leonardo Bonanni of hyperexperience.com)


Are writers nearing the limits of human imagination?

8/9/2007

In an interview with Silicon.com, William Gibson declares that he’s given up on envisioning futures: We hit a point somewhere in the mid-18th century where we started doing what we think of technology today and it started changing things for us, changing society. Since World War II it’s going literally exponential and what we are [...]


Taking a short intermission

8/3/2007

We’re taking a short intermission from education futures blogging due to the craziness of the past week in Minneapolis. Thankfully none of us or any of our friends or loved ones were involved in the I-35W bridge collapse. Harkins and I were teaching in the UMN-FLACSO joint seminar at the time, only a few blocks [...]


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Journalism 2.0 at Minnesota

This post is a little bit off topic, but it’s good to point out excellent examples citizen journalism –or Journalism 2.0. Many civil service workers at the University of Minnesota are on strike. One of our picketing colleagues, Tom Elko, posted an excellent video of his observations over the past week: More at Tom’s blog…


Slides from World Future Society presentation: Youth futures

Youth Futures: Projecting the Roles of Disruptive Technologies, Anticipatory Knowledge, and Continuous Innovation Summary: This session highlights the Global Youth Policy and Leadership Program at the University of Minnesota where faculty and students of all ages (kindergarten through graduate school) crafted scenarios, composed alternative futures, and explored other various futures methodologies. In this session, particular [...]


UMN-FLACSO knowledge seminar begins tonight

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 [...]


Momentum building for collaborative knowledge course

Cristobal Cobo notes that people at the Argentinian Ministry of Education, Science and Technology are taking interest in our joint knowledge seminar, offered by the University of Minnesota and FLACSO Mexico. The course blog and wiki are taking shape already… For more information, click on one of the links, below:


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 Harkins, Garth [...]


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