CSUSM/UCSD JPD - EDLD 730/740 Class Leadership Blog. This blog will be a place to gather course information, connect to peers and professors, and to share reflections and research!
CSUSM/UCSD JPD - EDLD 730/740 Class Leadership Blog. This blog will be a place to gather course information, connect to peers and professors, and to share reflections and research!
What is most interesting, I think, is the role of creative people, like science fiction writers, in this process. Sounds just like Pink - story and right brained thinking for sure.
ReplyDeleteThe most interesting portion was cut off, "the secret life of data." What does that look like? I value the notion that the futurist is also aware of building a discussion around futures to avoid. In addition the recognition regarding the importance of daily decisions and actions: "future is not fixed, not set, it is built daily by individual actions."
ReplyDeleteThe most applicable statement to my current line of work, is the building of visions. Once the futurist acknowledges a vision, building the vision is the work.
I am ready to join the conversation....
If there is a future where we are always connected and our every movement is tracked, can I be "zapped" every time I start to grab a snack or fattening food that is completely off limits in my diet? I know this sounds a lot like "big brother" , and it might be a future we want to avoid, but what if that is the case? I already think that students will (already do) have access to the world regardless of the firewalls we try to put up. There seem to me to be more and more implications for parents and teachers to teach internet "manners" and definitely safely. One idea from this video that stays with me is that if we have a "vision" we have to make sure we can build it. That is more and more the work of leaders, whether or not they consider themselves futurists.
ReplyDeleteDr. Stall,
ReplyDeleteyou pose some great questions. I also had some concerns hearing phrases like "a world without passwords" and "every aspect of life could be measured." I think there could be an opportunity for a great amount of good to be done with measuring "all aspects of life" (health/well being, learning, etc.) but at what point do we cross the line? And will we know we crossed before we cross it? by whose standards?
This is a very interesting topic. We've seen such huge growth in technology in the past few decades; can't wait to see what future we create!
Can you imaging what would happen if we began to look 10-15 years into the future of education? If Intel is doing this for the sake of technology don't we need to make sure that today's students, who will be tomorrow's computer designers and programmers, are ready?
ReplyDeleteI love the idea of no passwords...only from the notion that I can't always remember them!
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Favorite line from the clip, "What future do we want to live in". Definitely food for thought.
I love the notion of the Tomorrow Project, and being active participants in the future just by having conversations about the future we want to live in. I think about how to use this in my workplace and I think where we can start is by listening to the ideas of our students. They provide such a young and fresh perspective and can teach us a lot.
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