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Learning in augmented reality: Extending functional realities
The presentation that accompanies this post is here. In a previous post about a recent presentation that I did on augmented reality and learning, I mentioned the concept of “functional reality”. Given the increasingly diverse and distinct virtual, augmented and … Continue reading
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Hypothetica does foresight – an illustrative hypothetical case of CHAT analysis
This is part two of a two-part article. See part one, Technology foresight and organizational change: A CHAT perspective, here. For the sake of illustration, let’s consider what the application of Engeström’s extended CHAT framework to a technology foresight program (TFP) … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Future, ICTs, Knowledge development, Technology foresight
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Technology foresight and organizational change: A CHAT perspective
This is part one of a two-part article. See the second part, Hypothetica does foresight – an illustrative hypothetical case of CHAT analysis, here. Foresight researchers and evaluators tell us that technology foresight programs (TFP) produce outcomes in three stages: the … Continue reading
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Four unexpected ways artificial intelligence will influence education – Are we ready for this?
Stephen Hawking recently published a brief op-ed on artificial intelligence (AI) in the Independent. In it he discusses possible implications of rapidly developing AI and the need to prepare for the changes it will bring. Media decided to put its … Continue reading
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Tagged Artificial intelligence, self-driving cars, supercomputers
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Smoothing space for collaboration and innovation
I delivered a keynote at an eTwinning workshop being held in Reykjavík, Iceland this weekend. My slides are below. The context (i.e. what I said as opposed to only what’s in the slides) is that knowledge creation is dependent on … Continue reading
Who will help me make-up the future after Iain Banks is gone?
Iain (M.) Banks, creator of one of the grandest and most provocative contemporary visions of the future, has announced that he has terminal cancer. Banks is a well-known Scottish writer who publishes under both Iain Banks (his own brand of … Continue reading
