Braver, newer literary worlds — from futurebook.mit.edu by Debra Di Blasi
Description of videos:
The following video (in two parts) was part of my presentation to the Louisville Conference of Literature, February 2012. I am presenting a more extensive multimedia paper at the International Book Conference in Barcelona, June 29-July 2, 2012.
Ensequence secures $26 million to help accelerate the Future of TV — from marketwatch.com
NEW YORK, May 10, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Ensequence, a leader in transforming TV into a more interactive and engaging experience, has secured commitments for a $25,994,279 investment that will help accelerate its expansion into mobile and connected TV.
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From DSC:
We can begin to see why educational apps are on deck here…
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Addendums on 5/8/12:
Double vision: TV gets interactive — from thetowntalk.com by Fraizer Moore
Piers Fawkes: The future of TV — from psfk.com by Piers Fawkes
A solid Q&A with such questions as:
Year two notable delegates
10 changes to expect from the library of the future — from onlineuniversities.com
Excerpt:
Libraries have acted as community cornerstones for millennia, and every April marks School Library Month, celebrating how they promote education and awareness in an open, nurturing space. What makes them such lasting institutions, though, isn’t the mere act of preserving books and promoting knowledge. Rather, it’s the almost uncanny ability to consistently adapt to the changing demands of the local populace and emerging technology alike. The library system probably won’t disappear anytime soon, but rather, see itself blossoming into something new and exciting in congruence with today’s myriad informational demands.
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I’ll be in the HoloClass today — from The EvoLLLution (LLL=LifeLongLearning) by Frank Palatnick, UN Advisor of Global Education, International Agency for Economic Development
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July 27-29, The Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel
WorldFuture 2012, the annual conference of the World Future Society, is your chance to meet hundreds of futurists from around the world, get up close and personal with amazing inventions and prototypes at our Futurists: BetaLaunch invention expo, and hear directly from thinkers at the forefront of foresight.
Check out the just released preliminary program to see what we mean. [PDF]
Join hundreds of future-building men and women at the World Future Society’s 2012 conference, to be held in Toronto, July 27-29, at the Sheraton Centre Toronto hotel.
2020 Media Futures: Practicing What We Preach
A Better Way to Assess Trends Literature
Accelerating the Paradigm Shift from Lecture-Centered to Technology-Enabled Active Learning Instructional Methods
Asian Economies over the Next Decade
Can Innovation Save the Planet?
Chemical Brain Preservation: How to Live “Forever”
Climate Engineering Technologies: Current and Future Issues
Clouds, Crowds, and Complexipacity: How We Are Reinventing Science and Education for an Increasingly Complex World
Cobia or Barramundi? And Other Choices on Tomorrow’s Menus
Communities of the Future
Crowdsourced Weak Signal Collection in Corporate Foresight
Cultural Shifts Among Global Youths: Part III
Cyberbullying and Privacy Issues in Social Media
Designing Business for the Sustainable Future
Digital Bootstrapping: Future Technologies for Today’s Digital Outcasts
Escaping the Matrix: Designed Scenario Strategies
Exploring the Future Arts: Graphic, Sonic, Kinetic
Foresight Methods for Strategic Intelligence
Futurist Media for Improved Crisis Scenario Education
Global Futures Collective Intelligence System
Global MegaCrisis: How Bad Will It Get? What Strategies?
Hackerspace Movement: Hacking the Future
Healthspital 4.0: Re-Visioning the American Community Health-Care Experience
How to Turn Teenagers into Environmental Futurists!
Innovative Entrepreneurs Execute Big Ideas
Lessons from Three Decades of Futures Research
Networked Government: The 21st Century Agency
Our Role in Shaping the Future
Poverty of the Imagination: Using the Future to Avoid a World War
Primary Care 2025
Reimagining the Future of Global Health, Wellness, and Health-Care Delivery
Reinventing Life: A Guide to Our Evolutionary Future
Scenario Analysis in Public Health
Scouting the Future with the Implications Wheel
Singularity University: Team Projects to Positively Change the World
Speed Futuring
Systemic Solution to Achieving Green Economic Growth and Sustainable Development
Technology and Ideology: Its Effects and the Future
The Art and Science of Thinking about the Future
The Best of Houston
The Dream-Do Nexus
The Evolution of Integral Futures
The Future of Crime Prediction
The Future of Global Drug Safety
The Future of Shopping: An Immersive Experience
The Hackerspace Movement: Hacking the Future
Tomorrow Is Promised to No One: The Inevitability of Change
Town Hall Meeting: the Future of Governance
Transcultural Roundtable 2012
Unleashing Fundamental Change: Transforming Economic Development for an Economy That Does Not Exist
Waking Up the Algorithm
When Ivory Towers Fall: The Emerging Education Marketplace
Working Abroad as a Career of the Future? Taiwanese, Japanese, and Korean Expatriates in China
Rebuilding the LMS for the 21st Century — from CampusTechnology.com by Jennifer Demski
Can the goals of 21st century learning be met by retooled legacy LMSs, or does the future belong to open learning platforms that utilize the latest technology?
From DSC:
I especially love the last quote:
“We’re doing a disservice to our students by pretending that the traditional LMS reflects the way that the world works. A phrase we use a lot on our campus is that we feel it is our responsibility to train our students for the world they’re going to inherit, not the world they live in now, and certainly not the world we grew up in.”
Computers in the living room: Xbox has never been a game system — from wired.com by Tim Carmody
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TV is changing. The idea of what “TV” is, is changing. As technology marches onwards it will continue to change consumer behavioral patterns. It will continue to change the nature of the living room. To think otherwise is to be left behind.
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Opinion from DSC:
Technologies — by themselves — are neither good nor bad. It’s what we do with them that makes them good or bad. The concerns I have are when people try to play God. His ways are higher than our ways, and his thoughts are higher than our thoughts. So when the We Robot Conference puts up a banner that would normally look like the hand of God touching a human hand — but in their case, they put a robot’s hand reaching out to touch a man’s hand — something just doesn’t set well with me re: that image.
Don’t get me wrong. I think robotics can be very helpful — especially in manufacturing, fire safety, other. But in some of the robotics space/spheres of work, when we think we can “do better” than the LORD — to make a better mind than what He gave us — I get a bit nervous.
From DSC:
Arguably, Sal Kahn has become the most famous, influential educator on the planet today — his videos are watched millions of times a day now. The question — which Eric Schmidt answers in the piece — I couldn’t help but ask was, “Why didn’t this type of innovation come from someone who was working in education at the time of their innovation?”
My thanks to Dr. Kate Byerwalter and her colleagues for passing along this resource.
The tags/associated categories for this posting point out the relevant areas covered.
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From DSC:
A relevant graphic comes to mind with what Sal is trying to achieve with analytics:
i.e. Highly-effective diagnostic tools for the educators and trainers out there!
