Generation on a tightrope provides a snapshot of the present that is informed by our past. The strength of the book is reflected in the depth of discussion of many dimensions shared by today’s college students.
A survey of technology experts suggest higher education in 2020 will be quite different than it is today with expectations of more-efficient collaborative environments and evaluation schemes.
Paul Zenke spoke with Brian Mathews, the Associate Dean for Learning & Outreach at Virginia Tech’s University Libraries. Mathews is the author of the popular Ubiquitous Librarian blog, and the 2009 book “Marketing Today’s Academic Library: A Bold New Approach to Communicating with Students”
John Moravec spoke with Vernor Vinge. His 1993 essay “The Coming Technological Singularity” argues that accelerating technological change will bring about the end of the human era as we know it, and that the world will become so complex and foreign to human observers, it will be impossible to predict what will happen next.
I recently gave the opening keynote at the Telefónica Foundation’s VII Encuentro Internacional de Educación 2012-2013 in Buenos Aires, which has taken on relationships between education, society, and work as its first theme. I shared my thoughts on Knowmad Society as it relates to the Invisible Learning paradigm. Telefónica filmed the talk, and is graciously sharing it on YouTube (but with Spanish voice-over).
Education Futures is proud to present the second edition of StoryTech: A personalized guide to the 21st century, written by Arthur Harkins and George Kubik.
Education Futures contributors Arthur Harkins and John Moravec have been chosen as “highly commended” award winners at the Emerald Literati Network Awards for Excellence 2012 for their article entitled Systemic Approaches to Knowledge Development and Application published in the journal, On the Horizon. To highlight…
This working paper presents a framework for conceptualizing changes in society, driven by the forces of globalization, transformations of knowledge society, and accelerating change. This text considers the human capital development consequences and necessary transformations in education to meet the needs of a rapidly transforming society, and looks into some of the challenges facing Knowmad Society in an era of accelerating change.
Book: Creating innovators: The making of young people who will change the world Author: Tony Wagner (with video content produced by Robert A. Compton) Publisher: Scribner, a division of Simon & Schuster (2012) In Creating innovators, Harvard University’s Tony Wagner sets out to describe the…
I met up with Basti Hirsch at the NEXT Berlin 2012 conference last week. His work focuses on reinventing learning in the digital age. We chatted about what it would take to drive innovation in education, and some of what he believes are the most exciting examples we can learn from.
