Education Futures contributor Brock Dubbels was interviewed in the National Education Association’s October 2007 issue of NEA Today on the use of games in the classroom. Make sure to read the article, and bookmark Brock’s list of video game resources for educators!
Also, click here to read Education Futures posts by Brock on games in [...]

People seem really concerned about “future-proofing” in a world driven by accelerating change and accelerating uncertainty.  For example:

How do we future-proof our schools?
How do we future-proof our libraries?
How do we future-proof our wealth?
How do we future-proof our careers?
How do we future-proof our families?

This promotes dichotomic thinking along the lines of, [...]

From Ars Technica:
Rumors of Google’s plans to create a virtual world that rivals that of Second Life have popped up once again over the weekend. The company could now be collaborating with Arizona State University to test the 3D social network, which may be tied into Google’s current applications of Google [...]

As Education Futures nears its third anniversary, a couple changes are taking place:

The Library of Congress has issued ISSN 1940-0934 to this blog. This means Education Futures is a recognized serial and is cataloged by the Library.
Global Leapfrog Education (ISSN 1933-0200) is now merged with Education Futures. Future GLE articles will be published [...]

A quick note: Futurelab has a free magazine, Vision, that you can subscribe to or view online. My summer/autumn copy just arrived, and it is quite good. The current issue focuses on the future of digital learning and their impacts on youth.
Read the article…

Tailing the news that India is making Linux compulsory in schools, the Russian government is working to create a national operating system for schools:
Russian OS is to be installed on every school computer in Russia by 2009. Furthermore, every pupil will get the opportunity to operate the applied software produced in Russia, Leonid Reiman, acting [...]

The Preparation to Practice Group is pleased to announce that the first Horizon Forum meeting of this year will be held on October 3 from 8:30 – 11:00am in the historic Upson Room at the Walter Library on the University of Minnesota East Bank campus.
Two visiting speakers from the Faculty of Latin American Social Sciences [...]

For a moment, consider the scale of education in India. Then, read this article:
The Director of Public Instruction (DPI) has issued orders making free software compulsory. It says Linux Operating System should be used for IT education in eighth, ninth and tenth standards.

This is huge for a huge country making a huge investment in [...]

Somehow, this conference stayed off my radar until now. I would love to go, but I will be en route to China around the same time…! Oh well, maybe next year…

The Open Minds Conference is the first national K-12 gathering for teachers, technicians and educational leaders to share and explore the benefits of open [...]

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…