Category Archives: ICTs

Types of social media: My framework

Posted on September 17, 2015 by Tryggvi Thayer

For several years, I have been using a framework for classification of types of social media that I have attributed to boyd & Ellison, 2007. I first used the framework in a seminar that I taught at the University of … Continue reading →

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A wise and timeless parable from Seymour Papert

Posted on November 25, 2014 by Tryggvi Thayer

I had the opportunity to refer to this in a recent conversation. I’m just going to leave it here for now. Imagine a country that has a highly developed culture: poetry, philosophy, science, mathematics, but nobody has yet learned to write; it … Continue reading →

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Why doesn’t Google want me to have the nice things?

Posted on September 10, 2014 by Tryggvi Thayer

One of the things that I do in my work is to encourage people to be aware of the technological changes taking place around them and try to get ahead of the change; to think about future possibilities for education, … Continue reading →

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Learning in augmented reality: Extending functional realities

Posted on August 6, 2014 by Tryggvi Thayer

The presentation that accompanies this post is here. In a previous post about a recent presentation that I did on augmented reality and learning, I mentioned the concept of “functional reality”. Given the increasingly diverse and distinct virtual, augmented and … Continue reading →

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Hypothetica does foresight – an illustrative hypothetical case of CHAT analysis

Posted on June 9, 2014 by Tryggvi Thayer

This is part two of a two-part article. See part one, Technology foresight and organizational change: A CHAT perspective, here. For the sake of illustration, let’s consider what the application of Engeström’s extended CHAT framework to a technology foresight program (TFP) … Continue reading →

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Technology foresight and organizational change: A CHAT perspective

Posted on June 9, 2014 by Tryggvi Thayer

This is part one of a two-part article. See the second part, Hypothetica does foresight – an illustrative hypothetical case of CHAT analysis, here. Foresight researchers and evaluators tell us that technology foresight programs (TFP) produce outcomes in three stages: the … Continue reading →