Category Archives: future

Edu Predictions: Where is my conveyor belt sidewalk?

I have been rather disappointed lately that over the last few years we have not had much in the way of predictions in the education sector. For a while there it seemed like pedagogical prognostic punditry was a wide-spread New … Continue reading

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Remembrance of Futures Past, or Where’s my conveyer belt sidewalk?

We are rapidly approaching that wondrous time of year when pundits congratulate themselves for being right on technology. I used to make pronouncements about technology quite frequently because I was an avid reader of Popular Science and a couple of … Continue reading

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A Brief History of the Future of Education

This was a presentation that I did back in 2014 from the DET/CHE conference that I accidentally found on the web . “The presenter will review the history of how education and technology has been viewed in the popular press … Continue reading

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A Brief History of the Future of Education

This is the presentation I did at DET/CHE on how the future is represented in media reflecting the promises and fears of technology with some of the implications for our vision of education: This is a subject I have been … Continue reading

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The Future of Education

This is a first crack at thinking about the “Future of Education” question that George Siemens asked us. It is not a finished thesis but just little old me reading off the back of the napkin. I am pretty passionate … Continue reading

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Visions of the Semantic Web Future

Every so often, as technology changes, people like to make predictions about what the future holds for us. I love these visions of the future from semantic web folks: Web 2.0 – Web 3.0 – Web 4.0? one8nine UnConference Blog: … Continue reading

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