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Creativity Money Love: Learning for the 21st Century
Continually increasing evidence that future thinking is being taken, or should be taken, seriously. Interesting free publication from Creative & Cultural Skills and A New Direction in the UK. We asked over 40 artists, practitioners and thinkers to address issues around … Continue reading
Symposium on the future of education
Dr. Arthur Harkins and I will be participating in a symposium on the future of education in Iceland on March 20, 2012. The symposium is hosted by the University of Iceland’s School of Education. Dr. Harkins will present on some … Continue reading
Design Jams: Create Future-Relevant Educational Contexts
Design Jams are coordinated events meant to bring together a range of skills and expertise to apply “design thinking” to specific issues. All participants are required to pre-register for events and to indicate their skills and expertise so that design … Continue reading
Qualcomm and X Prize Foundation offer $10 million for functioning medical “tricorder”
Qualcomm and Peter Diamandis’ X Prize Foundation have announced a new X Prize for a functioning device akin to the medical Tricorder featured on the science fiction television series Star Trek. At stake is a $10 million prize for the … Continue reading
Posted in Education, ICTs, Leapfrogging development, Technology foresight
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What makes a “future-oriented” policy? Towards a framework for identifying and analysing policies.
I have often emphasized the need for future-oriented policies in education as a response to rapidly increasing change to the extent that if I were to be asked, “Tryggvi, what are you all about?”, that would be the gist of … Continue reading
Science fiction: Prediction or building blocks for the future?
Being an avid fan of science fiction literature (or “speculative fiction” as it’s sometimes called) and having a particular interest in the ways that “sci-fi” literature influences our visions and constructions of the future, John Schwartz’s article in this weekend’s … Continue reading
