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31 Oct 09

05 Jun 09

or quietly appearing in our midst.
Deciding which technologies to support for teaching and learning—and how to support them—depends, first, on our ability to learn about each emerging development.
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- If William Gibson was right—"the street finds its own uses for things"—then academic computing needs to be sure of its "street smarts."¹
- Doing so is partly a matter of science fiction, which consists, after all, of the stories we tell about the future. Doing so is also an issue of complexity, since each practice, or device, or network, or application comes embedded in a nest of other practices, or devices, or networks, or applications.
- introduce and explore methods for apprehending the future as it applies to the world of higher education and information technology.
- help academics understand the future as it hits the present
- survey that horizon,