I. Preparation Before Class:
Read/ Watch:
II. In Class Discussion:
Guest: TBA
- Explore yesterday’s visions of today.
- Examine the scope of changes in our future
- Discuss the need to imagine a future.
- Understand the limits of tech utopianism.
- Superforcasting and confirmation Bias
- Forecasting the possible impact of technology on education.
III. Reflection / Assignment After Class:
Read:
- The WTF economy (Medium)
- How to Be Less Terrible at Predicting the Future (Freakonomics)
- How to predict the future better than anyone else (Washington Post)
- The Future as a Way of Life: Alvin Toffler’s Unfinished Business (Medium)
- Tech Utopia (Wikipedia)
- Top Jobs of College Graduates (Fast Company)
- ASU Future of Innovation (AZ Central)
- 8 Reasons to turn down that startup job (Dear Design Student)
- Within two years a radical shift will begin to occur in the world of education. (Thomas Frey, Futurist)
- This is how the future looked 122 years ago (gizmodo)
- Top Ten jobs of the Future (Fast Company)
- These Will Be The Top Jobs In 2025 (And The Skills You’ll Need To Get Them) (Fast Company)
- Has Harvard Quashed Virtual Classroom Naysayers? (NPR)
Reflection / Assignment for Forum:
Now it’s time for you to teach. Take a subject or a skill that you know well and prepare a lesson for someone to experience. The lesson content must be through some technology: the web, audio, video or application. You must create a pre and post-test to assess how successful your learning content was educating your student. Write about the process and outcome in the conversation forum.
Next session (in 2 weeks!) : Designing for the user