About: Arthur Harkins

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http://www.cehd.umn.edu/edpa/People/Harkins.html

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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).

Latest posts by Arthur Harkins:

Adapting to technological and social change in education, 10 Jun 2008 in Accelerating Change

Global Finals 2008 recap (with video!), 28 May 2008 in Global Leapfrog Education

Additional slides from the Mexico 2030 conference, 10 Dec 2007 in General

Alternative presents and futures research, 15 Aug 2007 in Futures research