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Blair Peterson

Project Glass: One day... - YouTube - 0 views

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    How futuristic is this? Another Google project
Blair Peterson

Reshaping Learning from the Ground Up | Edutopia - 0 views

  • Then comes another car. And it's going 10 miles per hour. That's the public education system. Schools are supposed to be preparing kids for the business world of tomorrow, to take jobs, to make our economy functional. The schools are changing, if anything, at 10 miles per hour. So, how do you match an economy that requires 100 miles per hour with an institution like public education? A system that changes, if at all, at 10 miles per hour?
  • I meet teachers who are good and well intentioned and smart, but they can't try new things, because there are too many rules.
  • You need to find out what each student loves.
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  • Much of what we're transmitting is doomed to obsolescence at a far more rapid rate than ever before.
  • The textbooks are the same for every child; every child gets the same textbook. Why should that be? Why shouldn't some kids get a textbook -- and you can do this online a lot more easily than you can in print
  • Maybe it's important for teachers to quit for three or four years and go do something else and come back. They'll come back with better ideas. They'll come back with ideas about how the outside world works, in ways that would not have been available to them if they were in the classroom the whole time.
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    Interview with futurist Alvin Toffler. He promotes starting from scratch to redesign our schools.
Blair Peterson

YouTube - Futuristic DJ Desk - 0 views

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    This is really cool. How long until it becomes freely available to the public. I've seen a Ted Talk on these disks before, but this is even more developed.
jennifermaxpeterson

A day in the life of the future city - 1 views

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    Futuristic designs at this year's Index Awards include self-assembly homes, waterless toilets and kites that can measure air pollution Designers believe that the way we live, work and travel will be entirely different in the coming years These innovations provide more sustainable living solutions to the ones we currently employ Editor's note: Every two years, the prestigious INDEX: Awards seek out designers working on innovative solutions to global challenges.
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