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	<description>Exploring a New Paradigm in human capital development, driven by accelerating change.</description>
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		<title>Five secrets futurists don&#8217;t want you to know</title>
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Professional futurists continue to make outstanding contributions toward the development of understandings of the future, but is futures thought limited to this select group? Definitely not! With a do-it-yourself attitude, and leverage of the right resources, anybody can become an effective futurist. Here&#8217;s why:

Nobody knows the future &#8211; don&#8217;t trust anybody who says otherwise.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.educationfutures.com/2010/03/09/five-secrets-futurists-dont-want-you-to-know/</link>
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		<title>Hyper Island in a nutshell</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A Swedish approach to Invisible Learning:

More at Hyper Island&#8230;
(Thanks to @nickygrunfeld for sharing this video.)
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		<link>http://www.educationfutures.com/2010/02/24/hyper-island-in-a-nutshell/</link>
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		<title>The value of invisible learning</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the past two months since the announcement of the Invisible Learning project, we have received a tremendous response in Twitter and the blogosphere.  (Interestingly, most of the discussion originates from Latin America and Spain &#8212; and less from the United States and Canada.)
Much of the recent conversation has been on defining what is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.educationfutures.com/2010/02/09/the-value-of-invisible-learning/</link>
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		<title>Fab Lab: Build &#8216;almost anything&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;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.&#8221; [MIT Center for Bits and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.educationfutures.com/2010/02/03/fab-lab-build-almost-anything/</link>
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		<title>Noel Sharkey on the inexorable rise of robots</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From Silicon.com:

In this video interview, Noel Sharkey, professor of robotics and AI at the University of Sheffield, discusses developments in robotics &#8211; from the proliferation of robots in Japan&#8217;s automotive industry to the stair-climbing dexterity of Honda&#8217;s Asimo robot and beyond.

He also discusses ethical issues, and in which countries we can find the most robots [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.educationfutures.com/2010/01/15/noel-sharkey-on-the-inexorable-rise-of-robots/</link>
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		<title>Next Horizon Forum roundtable: Education and the Technological Singularity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An invitation to the next Horizon Forum meeting at the University of Minnesota:

Education and the Technological Singularity

January 27, 2010
11:30am &#8211; 1:30pm
250 Wulling Hall (U of M East Bank)
At the next Horizon Forum, you are invited to join the discussion, moderated by Arthur Harkins and John Moravec, with special guests, as we probe into the deep [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.educationfutures.com/2010/01/13/next-horizon-forum-roundtable-education-and-the-technological-singularity/</link>
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		<title>A guide to invisible learning</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This short set of slides provides a great background on what is &#8220;invisible learning&#8221; and how we can all contribute to the discussion at www.invisiblelearning.com.

Again, the conversation continues at www.invisiblelearning.com!
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		<link>http://www.educationfutures.com/2010/01/12/what-is-invisible-learning/</link>
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		<title>Obama: Education is a national security issue</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In this video from The UpTake forwarded to Education Futures from Bring Me the News, President Obama speaks on the relationship between education and national competitiveness (you can skip the introductions and jump to his talk which begins around 6:20 into the video):

President Obama: &#8220;So make no mistake: Our future is on the line. The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.educationfutures.com/2010/01/07/obama-education-is-national-security-issue/</link>
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		<title>The Bank of Common Knowledge: A mutual education network</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Bank of Common Knowledge (Banco Común de Conocimientos) is a pilot experience dedicated to the research of social mechanisms for the collective production of contents, mutual education, and citizen participation. It is a laboratory platform where we explore new ways of enhancing the distribution channels for practical and informal knowledge, as well as how [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.educationfutures.com/2010/01/04/the-bank-of-common-knowledge-a-mutual-education-network/</link>
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		<title>2009 in review: Results from the annual prediction game</title>
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[Photo by darkmatter]
Keeping with Education Futures&#8217; annual tradition, I released five predictions for global education in 2009 early last year.
How did I do?
Much better than my predictions for 2008!  Let&#8217;s look:

No Child Left Behind won&#8217;t get left behind.  Contrary to all the data that shows that NCLB is a miserable failure, it still [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.educationfutures.com/2010/01/02/2009-in-review/</link>
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