First up, I've been spending way too much time over the last couple of
days on pmog - a sort of massive multiplayer online webquest on
steriods (firefox browser addon required) - you'll need to play it to
see what I mean.
In the 'game' you can lay down commented trails (missions), along with
traps, chests full of goodies and portals...
Surf on over to http://pmog.com for the rundown and the addon. If you
join up, make me an acquaintance and/or try out the missions I've
created so far... http://pmog.com/users/botheredbybees/missions/generated (put on your armor first, I've sprinkled mines liberally on the false
trails)
I plugged some demographics in for a couple of my classes with
interesting results. My only problem was that I don't seem to have any
classes made up from just one demographic - typically about 1/3 of the
class are over 55, half are under 25 and the rest are scattered in
between. Still, it was an entertaining 30 minutes.
botheredbybees wrote: > Here's a couple of easter eggs for you...
> First up, I've been spending way too much time over the last couple of > days on pmog - a sort of massive multiplayer online webquest on > steriods (firefox browser addon required) - you'll need to play it to > see what I mean.
> In the 'game' you can lay down commented trails (missions), along with > traps, chests full of goodies and portals... > Surf on over to http://pmog.com for the rundown and the addon. If you > join up, make me an acquaintance and/or try out the missions I've > created so far... http://pmog.com/users/botheredbybees/missions/generated > (put on your armor first, I've sprinkled mines liberally on the false > trails)
> I plugged some demographics in for a couple of my classes with > interesting results. My only problem was that I don't seem to have any > classes made up from just one demographic - typically about 1/3 of the > class are over 55, half are under 25 and the rest are scattered in > between. Still, it was an entertaining 30 minutes.
With the increased casualisation of the workforce intersecting with
broadband mobile social networks, contractors for small to medium
businesses will be picking up skills 'on the fly' using their phones
and global links. Literacy and numeracy will become even less relevant
than they are even today. Mobile devices will not only be used for
simple calculation, but for OCR and reading too:
http://www.knfbreader.com/products-mobile.php People with the most
charisma and the best skills at making-it-up-as-they-go-along will be
the (temporary) employees of choice. We could well be heading for the
wuffie driven world painted by Cory in his magic kingdom:
http://craphound.com/down/download.php
Meanwhile, in a frenzy of denial, the current bastions of education
will cozy up ever closer with big business to ensure that there are
plenty of replaceable workers that can operate within corporate walled
gardens, creating and consuming in-house documentation to fulfill
their mission-critical day-to-day tasks - secure in the knowledge that
since they're the only ones licensed to bestow degrees, they are also
the only ones that can accurately determine the content of these
courses.
*Oh, do I feel old! I remember teaching machines! I remember being a student using a teaching machine. I have written programmed instruction (the content that teaching machines delivered). *
*They were dreadful, even then. What we can do now is nothing like we could have imagined in 196**2. I think what we will be able to do in 2053 will turn out to have been just as unimaginable.*
Just when did what we are doing now become *imaginable?*
This notion of unimaginability is tossed around a lot - technospherically.
For me serious imagination of pedagogical & cultural possibilities kicked in in 1978 with the arrival of my TRS-80 & having kids interact with it & its 4k mem.
By early to mid 90s you could image the terrain ahead pretty clearly. The details needed closer approaches to be mapped but Now was imaginable from Then.
I do read science fiction & that helps.
How was it for other folk?
Corollary:
Imagine how it will be 5/10/20 years from now. With the rate of change amping up maybe we can't And there's always the
rapture of the nerds - the singularity - to contend with.
> With the increased casualisation of the workforce intersecting with
> broadband mobile social networks, contractors for small to medium
> businesses will be picking up skills 'on the fly' using their phones
> and global links. Literacy and numeracy will become even less relevant
> than they are even today. Mobile devices will not only be used for
> simple calculation, but for OCR and reading too:http://www.knfbreader.com/products-mobile.phpPeople with the most
> charisma and the best skills at making-it-up-as-they-go-along will be
> the (temporary) employees of choice. We could well be heading for the
> wuffie driven world painted by Cory in his magic kingdom:http://craphound.com/down/download.php
> Meanwhile, in a frenzy of denial, the current bastions of education
> will cozy up ever closer with big business to ensure that there are
> plenty of replaceable workers that can operate within corporate walled
> gardens, creating and consuming in-house documentation to fulfill
> their mission-critical day-to-day tasks - secure in the knowledge that
> since they're the only ones licensed to bestow degrees, they are also
> the only ones that can accurately determine the content of these
> courses.
Some of it is spot on. I was particularly taken with this:
*People have more time for leisure activities in the year 2008. The average work day is about four hours. But the extra time isn't totally free. The pace of technological advance is such that a certain amount of a jobholder's spare time is used in keeping up with the new developments—on the average, about two hours of home study a day.
On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 12:37 PM, rgrozdanic <rgrozda...@gmail.com> wrote: > come on people - surely others in talo are prepared to stick their > free-range necks out and have a punt on what things might look like in 2020?
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