“The Fab Lab program has strong connections with the technical outreach activities of a number of partner organizations, around the emerging possibility for ordinary people to not just learn about science and engineering but actually design machines and make measurements that are relevant to improving the quality of their lives.” [MIT Center for Bits and [...]

Education Futures celebrates its first five years of exploring new futures in human capital development with a timeline of the history of education from 1657-2045. This timeline provides not only a glimpse into modern education, but plots out a plausible future history for human capital development. The future history presented is intended to be edgy, [...]

Open source collaborative content holds the promise of freely distributed high-quality education materials. Developing and sustaining the community to needed accomplish that is the difficult part.

Practical. Inspirational. Interactive.
November 2, 2009
10:00 – 18:00
Creative Learning Lab
Pakhuis De Zwijger, Amsterdam
Mark your calendars! On November 2, Education Futures NL, a workshop on designing education in the era of change, will kick off. Co-organized with Fons van den Berg (www.helikon.nl) and in cooperation with the Creative Learning Lab, we will bring Netherlands-area education [...]

Note: This article is a part of the Designing Education 3.0 series at Education Futures.
Little evidence suggests that new technologies in the classroom are being used to transform educational paradigms. At last year’s ASOMEX technology conference, ISTE’s Don Knezek pointed out that student graduation rates — and their rates of interest in schools — have [...]

The Star Tribune’s Karen Youso interviewed me for what I thought would be a short sidebar article on accelerating change, but it wound up taking the full front page of the Variety section in today’s paper. I’m absolutely delighted to see mainstream media discuss the Technological Singularity! … especially since the article contains [...]

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 creative, imaginative, and [...]

There’s a lot of talk about moving to “Education 2.0″ –but, what would Education 3.0 look like?
Here’s my take on the Education 1.0 – 3.0 spectrum:

Education 1.0

Education 2.0

Education 3.0

Meaning is…
Dictated
Socially constructed
Socially constructed and contextually reinvented

Technology is…
Confiscated at the classroom door (digital refugees)
Cautiously adopted (digital immigrants)
Everywhere (digital universe)

Teaching is done …
Teacher to student
Teacher to student and [...]