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Technology foresight: Learning from early attempts
Irvine & Martin’s (1984) seminal Foresight in Science: Picking the Winners, provides fascinating insights into early attempts at technology foresight. The authors describe a comparative case study of technology foresight in France, (what was then) West Germany, the US and … Continue reading
Technology foresight: The difficulty of peering into the future
As I mentioned in an earlier posting, technology foresight emerged from the future studies and technology forecasting fields and seeks to apply outcomes from these fields to policy- and decision-making (see the earlier posting for a discussion on what technology … Continue reading
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Technology foresight in educational policy and planning
One of the problems that plagues educational and other social policy regarding technology, is that it tends to chase technology in a hopeless game of cat and mouse. Policy is formulated based on currently existing technology (or what is in … Continue reading
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Sorry about unpublished comments
I just realized that a number of readers had commented on posts over the past few months and that their comments weren’t published. My system tagged them as spam and I didn’t see them. I get an incredible amount of … Continue reading
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Augmented reality and education
Earlier this summer I co-developed and co-led a seminar at the University of Minnesota with Dr. Arthur Harkins about augmented reality and the future of classroom-based education. My presentation is here: “Learning in augmented reality”. Augmented reality is the capability … Continue reading
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Becta’s closing: Loss of an important leader in research
If anyone wants to retain copies of the British Educational Communications and Technology Agency’s (Becta) excellent research and reports, they might think about hurrying over to the website. As a result of cutbacks in the UK, the agency will stop … Continue reading
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