Education Futures contributor Brock Dubbels was interviewed in the National Education Association‘s October 2007 issue of NEA Today on the use of games in the classroom. Make sure to read the article, and bookmark Brock’s list of video game resources for educators! Also, click here to read Education Futures posts by Brock on games in [...]

Somehow, this conference stayed off my radar until now. I would love to go, but I will be en route to China around the same time…! Oh well, maybe next year… The Open Minds Conference is the first national K-12 gathering for teachers, technicians and educational leaders to share and explore the benefits of open [...]

Jerome Glenn, director of the United Nations-affiliated Millennium Project, announced the release of the 2007 State of the Future report. According to the project’s press release, “the 2007 version adds a futurist look at the possibilities for education and improving collective intelligence by 2030.” Furthermore: This year’s addition, a study requested and supported by the [...]

Two articles related to the Singularity Summit have appeared on preparing for the Technological Singularity: First, Jamais Cascio writes on a Metaverse Roadmap Overview: In this work, along with my colleagues John Smart and Jerry Paffendorf, I sketch out four scenarios of how a combination of forces driving the development of immersive, richly connected information [...]

Dan, the guy behind Higher Ed Chat, is starting-up a Codex of Terrible Higher Ed Marketing. He writes: There will be a few categories: 1. “They Paid Someone to Design This?!” A list of the most poorly designed college websites. 2. “This Video is Supposed to Inspire… Whom?” A list of the cheesiest and most [...]