Category Archives: ICTs

Four unexpected ways artificial intelligence will influence education – Are we ready for this?

Posted on May 7, 2014 by Tryggvi Thayer

Stephen Hawking recently published a brief op-ed on artificial intelligence (AI) in the Independent. In it he discusses possible implications of rapidly developing AI and the need to prepare for the changes it will bring. Media decided to put its … Continue reading →

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Smoothing space for collaboration and innovation

Posted on November 2, 2013 by Tryggvi Thayer

I delivered a keynote at an eTwinning workshop being held in Reykjavík, Iceland this weekend. My slides are below. The context (i.e. what I said as opposed to only what’s in the slides) is that knowledge creation is dependent on … Continue reading →

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Who will help me make-up the future after Iain Banks is gone?

Posted on April 4, 2013 by Tryggvi Thayer

Iain (M.) Banks, creator of one of the grandest and most provocative contemporary visions of the future, has announced that he has terminal cancer. Banks is a well-known Scottish writer who publishes under both Iain Banks (his own brand of … Continue reading →

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Seamless technology integration in a program designed by and for high school students

Posted on March 12, 2013 by Tryggvi Thayer

I came across a video recently about a program offered at Monument Mountain Regional High School in Great Barrington, MA, a public school where high school students have the option of completing their final year with an independent study program. The … Continue reading →

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How 3D printing will change everything – including education

Posted on February 16, 2013 by Tryggvi Thayer

Edit: This article is getting a lot of attention so I’ve decided that some more background info on 3D printing is in order since I only briefly describe the technology. For more info see these TED Talks on 3D printing: … Continue reading →

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Filter Bubbles: A challenge for information literacy in the 21st century

Posted on January 26, 2013 by Tryggvi Thayer

The future is a strange beast. We’re always actively constructing it but we never know what the future will actually be. A seemingly insignificant occurrence in the present can emerge as the essential foundation of a future construct and, what’s … Continue reading →