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I like to state, that the future of education is the history of education. Bruce Sterling writes in his visionary book entitled Shaping Things, that “the future composts today“. When looking at the models of the current, you will see them in a mutated form in the future. Therefore, much of change is incremental in the core. What is hard, is to articulate what the direction would be. Studying the future is the study of multiple futures. What we can do for a certain, is to shape the future through our actions today.
Researching the history of the future is the same as researching the history of the past: you can only interpret it by looking at and sensing the signs you find in the current. Researcher of the future extrapolates weak or strong signals of today. Researcher of the past goes through archives and ruins today. In other words, both are studied by researching the now.
When formulating any meaningful paths of the future of education, we have to research the now, understand the past and see what patterns might recur in the future. George Siemens does a very good job with this in his talk about a World Without Courses. Got the link from Eric Davidove, check it out.
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