Within Ten Years: januari 2009

woensdag 14 januari 2009

Obama

Misschien oud nieuws, maar in elk geval verrassend genoeg om hier op te nemen: Obama heeft twee mensen in zijn Innovation Team opgenomen die verstand hebben van virtuele werelden. Bij deze een gedeelte van het bericht uit een Washington Post rapport.

Obama has named a team to create an "Innovation Agenda" which will draft "a range of proposals to create a 21st century government that is more open and effective; leverages technology to grow the economy, create jobs, and solve our country's most pressing problems," among other noble goals.

On that team is New York Law School professor Beth Noveck and Irving Wladawsky-Berger, a Chairman Emeritus of IBM. Both of them are not just well-versed in SL, they're also crucial to its existence. As vice president of technical strategy and innovation at IBM, Wladawsky-Berger was instrumental in convincing IBM to devote tremendous resources and capital in 3D web technology, Second Life and OpenSim in particular; it's why the Fortune 500 company maintains one of the largest and most active sites in SL, and by extension, has conferred enormous legitimacy to Second Life as a technology worthy of serious corporate interest.

Beth Noveck has been closely involved in SL's development from the beginning, as the founder of New York Law School's State of Play, the ongoing conference series that's done so much to shape academia's understanding of virtual worlds as an important social phenomenon.

dinsdag 13 januari 2009

Gatenkaas

Een auto mag in Nederland maximaal 140 gram CO2 per kilometer uitstoten. Over ongeveer tien jaar moet dat zijn gedaald tot 95 gram per kilometer. Een zoekopdracht met Google kost ongeveer 0,2 gram CO2 en het bezoeken van een website kost gemiddeld 20 milligram CO2 per seconde. En iets heel anders: in Nederland is nieuw lettertype ontwikkeld. "Na de gatenkaas is er nu ook een Nederlands lettertype met gaten." Een goed idee is altijd simpel: kijk hoeveel je van een letter kunt weglaten met behoud van de leesbaarheid. Na een testfase met allerlei vormen is de keuze gevallen op het uitsparen van kleine rondjes. Het resultaat is het Ecofont dat tot zo'n 20% minder inkt gebruikt. Zie: www.ecofont.eu. Het lettertype is gratis te downloaden. Hoeveel CO2 kost downloaden eigenlijk?

Hoe zit het met het onderwerp Duurzaamheid over tien jaar. Welke voorbeelden zijn er te bedenken over wat we dan hebben bereikt? En, natuurlijk, hoe visualiseren we dit in de wedstrijd?

zondag 4 januari 2009

Budget

Zelfs ten tijde van de kredietcrisis blijkt het lastig te zijn om in de wedstrijd inzendingen te verkrijgen die in het Budget-scenario passen. Daag jezelf eens uit en verzin en visualiseer iets uit het leven over tien jaar dat past bij het een toekomst waarin "roeien met de riemen die je hebt" de boventoon voert. Enkele elementen: individueel, passief, directe communicatie, waar voor je geld, egoïstisch, pragmatisch, korte termijn denken, calculerend.

Wat betekent "Budget" voor het onderwijs, de zorg, transportsector of wonen over tien jaar?

donderdag 1 januari 2009

Nieuwjaar

Within Ten Years wenst iedereen een innovatief en creatief 2009.

Within Ten Years

It’s all about examples, examples and examples

The good, the bad and the ugly

The idea of creating Within Ten Years was born during a class where students were asked to answer a dozen of questions. There were a few restrictions for answering these questions. They had to come up with the answers within ten minutes, plus they had to find them by text messaging people in their network. After about five minutes, phones started to beep with incoming messages. After eight minutes the phone of a student, who paced round the classroom nervously, emitted the last beep. The students shared the responses and about 75 percent of the questions were answered, just by this simple way of crowd sourcing.

The method of using text messaging was only one of the possible - so called 2.0 - ways to discover, but what are other new modern methods and where to find examples of it? What about the possibilities of the future internet? What about the idea of Within Ten Years itself?

Within Ten Years has to be the Virtual Learning Space to experience, collect and share examples of these new educational concepts. There are only three things where Within Ten Years is all about: examples, examples and examples. The good, bad and ugly ones.

We are not alone

A big part of the future internet comprises 3D virtual spaces. These virtual spaces create possibilities for people to create their own environments. Places where they can build and script objects, buildings -houses, schools, hospitals-, vehicles, toys and games, tools and role play theatres. The 21st century needs more and new innovative learning concepts for these surroundings. Teachers, trainers and innovators can meet each other from all over the world and share their ideas about new innovative educational concepts. Let’s explore this new model and its possibilities by creating, experimenting and sharing experiences with teachers and trainers from all over the world and together build the best 3D-environment for learning.

The 21st Century

Students live their digital lifestyle to the fullest. For the first time in human history there is a generation being brought up with full admission to information and communication technology. So far the good news, now over to the bad: school is an outage of their digital lifestyle. Teachers and trainers don’t live a similar digital lifestyle and/or do not have the examples of using the necessary didactical methods in their classes and workshops. Therefore the big question is: How do we the bridge the gap between the digital life style of 21st century students and teachers/trainers with a physical classroom lifestyle developed in the past century?

Within Ten Years is looking for the unexpected examples of how to bridge this gap. Together we can encourage a culture change within the educational system. A change to a way of learning that fits the 21st century.

A wearable shop

Suppose you have the shared examples of Within Ten Years in real time as a Head Up Display with you. Every change, every new example, every new tip or trick, every new developed tool, every new content is shared in real time with all members of Within Ten Years. That’s our dream: offering a free, open, co-created, EduBag for teachers and trainers, fully loaded with free examples of methods for classes and workshops; and enhanced with free supporting tools. Join, share and collaborate to fulfil your and our dream.

Four Futures Contest

Within Ten Years facilitates the contest "In ten years". Visualize your ideas about life in ten years. How do we live, eat, work, travel, communicate, learn, contribute to sustainability and how do we entertain ourselves? The contest is organized by the lectureship "Futures Research in ICT" of Leiden University of Applied Sciences, and is open to everyone.
A contribution need to be places at the Visions sector of Within Ten Years in one of the four futures, that fit best. Contestants have to give permission to move the contribution so we can give it the best place at Visions. We will add an information board to explain the contribution. Some rules are explained at the center of the Visions sector.

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woensdag 14 januari 2009

Obama

dinsdag 13 januari 2009

Gatenkaas

zondag 4 januari 2009

Budget

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