Dan Sutch at Futurelab (UK) alerted me to their new project, Beyond Current Horizons: Beyond Current Horizons looks at the future of education, beyond 2025. The aim is to help our education system prepare for and respond to the challenges it faces as society and technology rapidly evolve. What skills will children need for work? [...]
"The whole educational and professional training system is a very elaborate filter,
which just weeds out people whoare too independent, and who
think for themselves, and who don't know how to be submissive, and so on
-- because they're dysfunctional to the institutions."
-Noam Chomsky
which just weeds out people whoare too independent, and who
think for themselves, and who don't know how to be submissive, and so on
-- because they're dysfunctional to the institutions."
-Noam Chomsky
Archive for November, 2008
Knowmads in Society 3.0
11/20/2008
Remember nomads? In the pre-industrial age, nomads were people that moved with their livelihood (usually animal herding) instead of settling at a single location. Industrialization forced the settlement of many nomadic peoples… …but, something new is emerging in the 21st century: Knowmads. A knowmad is what I term a nomadic knowledge worker –that is, a [...]
Road trip 3.0
11/12/2008
Posting at Education Futures has been somewhat sparse as I’ve been taking Education 3.0 and the Society 3.0 framework on a road trip in Latin America, China, and now: Czech Republic. Over the next few days, I will meet with faculty and students at Charles University (Prague), Masaryk University (Brno), and Metropolitan University in Prague. [...]
Thank you!
11/5/2008
The e-competencies conference is over –and, by all measures, it seems to be a resounding success! Many, many thanks go to Cristóbal Cobo and Jutta Treviranus for the co-organization of the event. I am particularly grateful for our amazing participants. A few of their presentations are already online: Martín Parselis (Video) [UCA] Guillermo Lutzky (Video) [...]
Yes, we can!
11/4/2008
I’m in Mexico until late this election night. I voted absentee, and I hope you’re voting, too. (Sí, se puede!)
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