Final Seminar – notes on final plenary session

1 June 2011, by Rupert

Notes from end of day plenary session: What should we do next?

• Connect universities and innovative schools nationally, because we’re in danger of being isolated and duplicating
• Exeter University and interested others should link with Transition. This is an emergent, heterarchical movement ripe for study
• Association of professional futurists; World future studies federation (civilizational); centres in Finland, Malta, Poland. The debate is active at the moment.
• Link to blog on seminar series website; Keri happy to act as point of contact
• 40 years into tech enhanced education; we should look into what has happened in the past and how to learn lessons?
  • link with History Ed networks on this issue
  • why aren’t we backcasting to 1985?
  • we have access to a 100-strong conference space to explore this or other possibilities.
  • counterfactuals show us that outcomes weren’t as expected, and this teaches us about how we plan. We see that the tools don’t drive the change – agency does. ditch technology fatalism
  • let’s have a conference on this issue, looking at different experiences around the world, bringing in the political and cultural spheres.
  • let’s link tools like backcasting to current commissioning and evaluation activities.

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