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NEW EDUCATION MODELS
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education will become an "on-demand service" where people "pull down a module of learning" when they need it.
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"School kids will learn from short bite-sized modules, and gamification practices will be incorporated in schools
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Making will go mainstream
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not just with the creative class, but with people who would never consider themselves to be traditionally 'creative'--opening up a whole population of pragmatists who now make extremely useful 'artwork'
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In the past, innovative products flowed from rich countries to poor countries. By 2020, the pipeline may start flipping
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Africa embraces technology to solve health and education challenges, it may start exporting its models elsewhere
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By 2020, mobile money will have spread throughout Africa, enabling some of the 2 billion people without access to financial services to come into the formal system.
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dark imaginings: The end of privacy and the continued rise of surveillance. The personalization of everything and the end of serendipity. Dependence on devices. Loss of human autonomy in the face of artificial intelligence.
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Machines
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running our lives to a very large degree...
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shared by Maria Gurova on 20 Sep 13 - No Cached

"Unlike Monopoly, the goal of Commonopoly is not the exhaustion, through monopolization, of a virtual stock of goods, but rather the expansion and preservation of a self-propelling sustainable system of recycling, production and distribution," the creators write.
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Commonopoly, which has recently resurfaced in a couple of places online, demands that players brainstorm alternative economic systems through activities placed around the board.
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Commonopoly also triggers another recent memory. In 2012, a team of psychologists from the University of California, Berkeley, designed several experiments to measure how wealth impacted unethical behavior.
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The results of the other experiments came to the controversial conclusion that those with wealthier backgrounds were more likely to cut off other drivers, lie in negotiating, or cheat.
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shared by Maria Gurova on 19 Jan 15 - No Cached

Nickelodeon UK’s launch of a website called Code-It that aims to teach programming skills to 6-12 year-olds.
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While they will earn badges for their progress through the site’s set lessons, children will also be able to write their own programs animating the characters, and share them with their peers.
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In May 2014, producer Aardman Animations launched Shaun’s Game Academy - a website challenging children to create and share their own games
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the BBC followed with The Doctor and the Dalek, a web game based on Doctor Who that featured a series of programming challenges
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Today, as part of its annual Hour of Code event, Code.org is launching a free online tutorial that prompts kids to build their own games, based on characters in the upcoming Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
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where they’ll learn to write code to design their own games featuring characters like R2-D2 ad C-3PO.
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Of the 5 million students currently registered on Code.org, around 2 million are girls and around 2 million are black or Hispanic.
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That’s one reason why the Hour of Code tutorial, which is available to anyone online, focuses on the film’s prominent female characters, instead of, say Han Solo or Luke Skywalker.
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