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Regular Meetings are Saturdays from 9:30-11:30 AM Directions
Knights of Columbus Building - Meeting Room, 1114 American Blvd West, Bloomington, MN
May 7, 2011
Potpourri:
http://www.ted.com/talks/sugata_mitra_the_child_driven_education.html (David Grider - 1/2 hour) The future of education in economically constrained times.
Subtitle: What is the Granny Cloud and how does it work?
May 10, 2011
Board Meeting
6:30 PM
(At the KC - RSVP Hank for Pizza)
May 14, 2011
Future Studies SIG
Topic: Human Capital Futures - part IV (Strategies :World Class Competencies for the 21st Century)
Speaker: George Kubik (Anticipatory Futures Group, LLC)
Abstract: - continued from April 23rd - : What will it mean to be a “world class” worker in the 21st century? How will workers and organizations remain relevant in the future? Rapid change and increasing complexity are changing the rules, and historical precedents are failing. This presentation addresses the evolving competencies, strategies, and recent research into the future(s) of work and workers.
May 21, 2011
Society, Management and Education SIG
Topic: "Are Innovation and Education a Contradiction?: How can you teach novelty?"
Speakers: Ray Seth
Ray Seth is a retired, "semi-professional" student living in the Twin Cities. He did his graduate work at the U. of Minnesota in statistics, psychology, engineering and medical diagnostics. During his working career, he was VP of Information Technology for three large corporations and owned and operated his own software development and operations research firms. He has been both a teacher and user of sophisticated statistical and mathematical methods and models to solve business and other problems. He recently completed two years of tutorial composition studies an the U. of M. School of Music. During his career, he has created and implemented a number of significant business and technical innovations.
Abstract:
Teaching innovation seems like an oxymoron. How can you teach about creations that have not been thought of yet? Beyond that, how can you come up with and teach a method for producing that "Ah-Ha" experience wherein the unconscious delivers forth a creation? Deductive logic is of no use, in producing creative ideas, since the problems under consideration cannot serve as a postulates from which to derive the solutions. Indirect approaches seem to be required.
REf.
Salman Khan of Khanacademy.org on Charkie Rose May 4, 2011
http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/11658
Salman Khan talk at TED 2011
http://youtu.be/gM95HHI4gLk
May 28, 2011
No Meeting Memorial Day Weekend
June 4, 2011
June 11, 2011
Category: Economy/Markets
Title: ""
Speaker: Bruce Healton
Abstract:TBA
June 18, 2011
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Topics Pending for 2011
Future schedule work in progress
Roundtable: Tech Breakthrough Forecasts for 2015-2020
See topics awaiting dates above.
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