By John Moravec (Updated December 20, 2009)
Education Futures celebrates its first five years of exploring new futures in human capital development with a timeline of the history of modern education. This timeline provides not only a glimpse into the past and present, but plots out a plausible future history for human capital development. The future [...]
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We’re always busy, but doing nothing
Here’s another look at accelerating change. On Friday, the New York Times published an excellent review of Dalton Conley’s book, Elsewhere U.S.A.:
“A new breed of American has arrived on the scene,” Conley, a professor at New York University, declares in “Elsewhere, U.S.A.,” his compact guidebook to our nervous new world. Instead of individuals searching for [...]
Clayton Christensen on innovation in education
Yesterday, HBS Working Knowledge posted an interview with Clayton Christensen, a professor at Harvard Business School and author or coauthor of five books, including The Innovator’s Dilemma and The Innovator’s Solution. The interview focused on his latest book (co-authored with Michael B. Horn and Curtis W. Johnson), Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change [...]
Getting smart about books
As a follow-up to last week’s posts by Ai Takeuchi with Japanese perspectives on global education, I wanted to comment on Steve Jobs’ claim that nobody reads books anymore –and counter his claim by pointing out that books are alive and well in Japan because the Japanese are embracing the distribution possibilities provided by new [...]
Video Games in the Classroom (part two)
To do is to be
To be is to do
So Do We?
It is just good teaching
Games taught me that modeling environments and taking on the roles are powerful ways to teach and learn.
Piaget talked about roles as assimilation. You try on the role and see what part of the character is you.
Gibson talked about environment and [...]
Top ten list #10: Resources for education futurists
We wrap up our ten days of top ten lists with ten resources that can help you start to think as an education futurist. This list is far from complete — feel free to post your own in the comments!
Wikipedia
Wired
The New York Times
The Wall Street Journal
Kurzweil, R. (2005). The Singularity is near: When humans [...]
Kurzweil: The singularity is near
Here is a book to watch out for: The singularity is near by Ray Kurzweil, to be released in September, 2005.
The following information is cut-and-pasted from Amazon.com’s description of the volume:
Product Details
Hardcover: 624 pages
Publisher: Viking Adult (September 22, 2005)
ISBN: 0670033847
Book Description
The great inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil is one of the best-known and controversial [...]
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