BBC Maths - Number patterns Game - 64 views
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Martin Burrett on 16 Jan 12A fun futuristic maths game where you need to save the world with your knowledge of number patterns. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Maths
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BBC - maths - Addition/Subtraction - 68 views
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A great futuristic adventure game from the BBC where players must use their skills at adding and subtracting to save the world. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Maths
A Critique of Technocentrism in Thinking About the School of the Future - 33 views
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"So we are entering this computer future; but what will it be like? What sort of a world will it be? There is no shortage of experts, futurists, and prophets who are ready to tell us, but they don't agree. The Utopians promise us a new millennium, a wonderful world in which the computer will solve all our problems. The computer critics warn us of the dehumanizing effect of too much exposure to machinery, and of disruption of employment in the workplace and the economy. Who is right? Well, both are wrong -- because they are asking the wrong question"
Getting History in Tune | review of AHA Tuning Project's "Discipline Core" edwired - 16 views
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Mills says the workgroup was not futuristic enough - need to think about what would the study of history become in the future given all the technological changes in sources and publications - weak on recent advances in digital humanities and needed to press more about ehtics and copyright
BBC - Learning Zone Class Clips - Futuristic school has circular classrooms - Maths - 42 views
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As building work gets underway for a new school, Gareth Nutt, head of property and regeneration at Neath Port Talbot council, describes its unusual circular design. The classrooms in this new school will be circular so all pupils feel included. The building environment is controlled with windows which automatically open when rooms get too hot. This clip was first published on BBC News Online on 15 January 2009. Please note this clip is only available in Flash.
Serious Reading for Serious Futurists | World Future Society - 39 views
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Trends Shaping Education 2010. OECD Centre for Educational Research and Innovation. Paris: OECD Publishing, Sept 2010, 90p, free pdf.
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Education Today 2010: The OECD Perspecive. OECD Centre for Educational Research and Innovation. Paris: OECD Publishing, Oct 2010, 86p, free pdf.
Futurist: To fix education, think Web 2.0 - CNET News - 0 views
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He suggested a "hybrid" learning approach. Schools can teach essential knowledge and critical thinking through somewhat traditional means. But they should complement that teaching with what Seely Brown called "passion-based learning" that focuses on getting students more engaged with topic experts.
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This should be useful way for the less "techy" to accept and accomodate the contribution Web 2 can make.
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Good comments about using Web 2 to connect learners to others (experts) passionate about topics of shared interest.
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Good comments about using Web 2 to connect learners to others (experts) passionate about topics of shared interest.
3D Typing Game - 171 views
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A futuristic looking game which teaches students how to type. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/ICT+%26+Web+Tools
The most-desired skills of 2020 will be… | Pew Internet & American Life Project - 142 views
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In contrast, the ability to read one thing and think hard about it for hours will not be of no consequence, but it will be of far less consequence for most people.”
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“These two modes of thinking (rapid information gathering vs. slower information processing and critical analysis) represent two different cultures, each with its own value system,” maintained Patrick Tucker, deputy editor of The Futurist magazine. “They can work together and complement one another but only with effort on the part of both sides.
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the most highly valued intellectual and personal skills will be the ability to exist in both of these spaces.”
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Bryan Alexander | Educator, futurist, speaker, writer - 17 views
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His personal website.
FuturistSpeaker.com - The personal blog of Futurist Thomas Frey » Blog Archiv... - 30 views
BLACK FUTURES MONTH - M4BL - 5 views
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Exciting movie to share this month capturing the inspiring collective action African Americans are doing.
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