It's hard to believe that winter is here, and the new year is just around the corner. It feels like yesterday that the ShapingEDU Community was dreaming up ways to help learners and educators around the world.
Those dreams transformed into Calls to Action, Action Team Projects, and an abundance of outputs. Let's reflect on some of the exemplary work and moments of our ShapingEDU Community, shall we?
We asked our ShapingEDU changemakers to weigh in on their recommended reading lists (books, research, blogs) for this fall, and they did not disappoint!
Learning technology tool coolhunting is fun – but it can lead a bit too easily to the "Oooh – shi
ASU's ShapingEDU was founded in 2018, focused on three intertwined words of action: dreaming, doing and driving. Separately, they’re strong. In combination, they’re unstoppable. We must dream big, collaborate to bring our visions to life and nurture every seedling of success for the lifelong learners of now and tomorrow.
Over the latter half of his career, Douglas Engelbart struggled to help organizations adopt augmented approaches to the technology that he had helped midwife in the 1960s. His Augmentation Research Center at the Stanford Research Institute focused on creating technology that would make us better, more creative, and more connected as human beings, but to the outside world he was merely “the inventor of the mouse.”
Life is complicated. At any given moment, a thousand things are happening which impact my life. An exponential number more will impact my life in the future. Most of these things are things you only have a vague awareness of, at best. Additionally, I manage systems in my body, from the infinite complexity of my mind, to the autonomic beating of my heart, to complex interactions between the three as my fingers dance across the keyboard to type these words.