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Category Archives: Technology foresight
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
How has technology made a difference? An observant quote.
Another quote for my non-existent Quote of the Day feature (underline is mine): “To date, I am not convinced that educational technology has made much of a difference in the classroom. What has made a difference is technology used by … Continue reading
Apple’s textbook disruption a bit of a dud? Where’s the pedagogy?
Apple promised a major announcement yesterday having to do with textbooks. Turns out that what they were so excited about was their new version of the iBooks application for the iPad and a new Mac application for creating “interactive textbooks”. … Continue reading
Posted in Education, ICTs, Knowledge development, Technology foresight
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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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“Learning” is built into the technology!
If I had a “quote of the day” feature, this would be on it somewhere (italics are mine): “Our charge was to accept the challenge of an Information Age and acknowledge, at the conceptual as well as at the methodological … Continue reading
New York Times crowd-sources futuring on computer technology
The New York Times is crowd-sourcing the projection of futures for computing. The NYT has set up an interactive timeline that allows readers to take part in a futuring activity on the computer technologies. The feature was published early in … Continue reading
Posted in ICTs, Information Society, Internet, Technology foresight
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