Category Archives: Technology foresight

Hvers konar gervigreind: um þýðingar

Ég held að þetta sé fyrsta grein sem ég birti hér á Education4site á íslensku. Vanalega hef ég birt íslenskar greinar á Upplýsandi tæki, vef mínum á bloggkerfi Mbl.is. Ég hef h.v. engan áhuga á að pósta efni mitt þar … Continue reading

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Competence Frameworks for Futures Education and Sustainable Development Education: A Comparison

Edit (Jan. 20, 2023): An expanded peer-reviewed article based on the research described here has been published. See here:Thayer, T. (2023), “Identifying similarities and differences in sustainability education and foresight and futures education: a comparative analysis of competence frameworks”, On the Horizon, … Continue reading

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Augmented reality in education: A discussion long overdue

The recent Pokémon Go rage has brought a lot of attention to the possibilities for using augmented reality (AR) in teaching and learning. This is great and very welcome. AR has a lot of obvious potential for enhancing teaching and learning, … Continue reading

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Addendum on affordances and educational technology

This is an addendum to an article that I previously posted on affordances in April, 2016. As I’ve continued to explore the topic of affordances, there are a couple of things in the original article that I’ve reconsidered and need … Continue reading

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Metaphors and technological change: A double-edged sword

Edit 07.09.21: I discovered some time ago that, at about the same time that I posted this article, the Futures journal published a special issue on metaphors in futures studies. There are subtle differences between my take and those of … Continue reading

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Is technological change really accelerating? Depends – real or perceived change?

I’ve just come across this rather dated blog post (from 2006) by Tom Coates in which he is lambasting people for “rhetoric of endless insane change at a ludicrous rate.” The point he wants to make is that the changes … Continue reading

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