Futures for the arts, humanities and social sciences

Futures Thinking 'The Digital' for the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences

A few words on words http://www.flickr.com/photos/peterkaminski/5444915/sizes/l/
FutureS Thinking
Trends
Decision Making
2 Scenarios
The Creative Challenge
Planning for the Postdigital

Futures Thinking
Not a prediction
Looking for patterns
Trends in context

Trends
Aging population
'Digital' literacy
Increased focus on innovation
The need for collaboration to understand complex systems
Social media and information abundance
Multiple skill sets
Changing funding models
Student influence

Decision making http://www.flickr.com/photos/katietower/4298176319/sizes/l/ Anarchy of the past Illusion of Reason Complexity

Distributed vs. Convergent
Points of tension
Choosing scenarios
Using scenarios

A Corporate Scenario http://www.flickr.com/photos/cpierry/302577503/sizes/o/
Private funding.
Content is industry-driven, more specialized.
More experiential learning - blurring of vocational and professional educational.
Public acceptance of diversified educational system.
Streaming reaches back into K-12.

A Creative Scenario http://www.flickr.com/photos/jef_safi/225429168/sizes/o/
Less funding.
Content is used to develop context and creative skills.
Focus on collaborative learning skills.
Public reliance on the university for providing context and judgement.
Creative literacies extending back K-12.

Arts. Humanities. Social Science.
Adaptive to change
Integral to creativity
Collaborative learning
Learning to learn
Knowledge as connective
Work skills are innovative skills

Planning for futures
Normative planning
Looking past the novelty
Literacies
The Postdigital

“ [Writing] will introduce forgetfulness into the soul of those who learn it: they will not practice using their memory because they will put their trust in writing, which is external and depends on signs that belong to others, instead of trying to remember from the inside, completely on their own. You have not discovered a potion for remembering, but for reminding; you provide your students with the appearance of wisdom, not with its reality .” (Phaedrus 275a-b) Futures

Thanks. Dave cormier http://edfutures.com http://davecormier.com/edblog http://twitter.com/davecormier

Futures for the arts, humanities and social sciences

by dave cormier on Apr 23, 2010

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