Lecture 32 2012 - Future- Casting
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As you know, Friday we have some fun lined up for us consisting of the sure-to-be informative pecha kucha presentations from our CSL students.
Here is my own little summary of this term's Ales204 class. I used storify (mentioned in the lecture) to curate some photos, tweets, audioboos and more that were published on the web with our course tag: #ALES204. Enjoy and feel free to comment on the stories themselves (a new feature storify recently added).
As you know, Friday we have some fun lined up for us consisting of the sure-to-be informative pecha kucha presentations from our CSL students.
Here is my own little summary of this term's Ales204 class. I used storify (mentioned in the lecture) to curate some photos, tweets, audioboos and more that were published on the web with our course tag: #ALES204. Enjoy and feel free to comment on the stories themselves (a new feature storify recently added).
Take a look at this prediction for the Future of Science from the Institute for the Future:
A Multiverse of Exploration: The Future of Science 2021
CNN features map in "A look at 'the future of science' 2021"
Invisibility cloaks. The search for extraterrestrial intelligence. A Facebook for genes. These were just a few of the startling topics IFTF explored at our recent Technology Horizons Program conference on the "Future of Science." More than a dozen scientists from UC Berkeley, Stanford, UC Santa Cruz, Scripps Research Institute, SETI, and private industry shared their edgiest research driving transformations in science. MythBusters' Adam Savage weighed in on the future of science education. All of their presentations were signals supporting IFTF's new "Future of Science" forecast, laid out in a new map titled "A Multiverse of Exploration: The Future of Science 2021." The map focuses on six big stories of science that will play out over the next decade: Decrypting the Brain, Hacking Space, Massively Multiplayer Data, Sea the Future, Strange Matter, and Engineered Evolution. Those stories are emerging from a new ecology of science shifting toward openness, collaboration, reuse, and increased citizen engagement in
scientific research.
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We are delighted to share the map with you, under a Creative Commons license permitting non-commercial sharing with attribution. We hope you enjoy it and find it provocative. Think of "A Multiverse of Exploration: The Future of Science 2021" as a star chart of possibility, pointing the way toward opportunities for wonder, knowledge, and insight. Use it to raise questions about how your life and work may change in light of the startling transformations that science may bring about in the next ten years. Indeed, every forecast could be rephrased as a "what if" question. What if you could record your dreams? What if you could design a life form? What if you could launch a company in orbit? Your answers to those questions can help inform decisions in the present. Inside this map, you'll find plenty of space to think.
This is a really cool summary of this semesters ALES class. It is a really cool way to wrap up to course and highlight key points addressed throughout the semester. It is great to see how different students have used this class to raise awareness for relevant events and subjects. Very cool post for the final week of classes!
ReplyDeleteGlad you found the summary useful. Feel free to try out storify using a tag of interest to you.
DeleteThis is a very nice summation of the course. You can really see the evolution of our tweets over the semester. Great Job ALES204.
ReplyDeleteThanks
Becky
Yes Becky! You're right; there is a difference in the kinds of tweets sent at the beginning of the term and at the end. Perhaps an evolution of learning?!
DeleteLove the way we could even use a social media tool to sum up our learning in this class. I have enjoyed following my classmates on Twitter and seeing how they used this class to make connections in their own field of study. I would have never became such an activist for Food Politics had I not been continually kept up to date on Twitter! Thank Jess
ReplyDeleteCassandra Holte
ReplyDeleteThis was a great way to spend the last lecture! It really summed up the entire course and made me think about how many different social media tools there are and how they impact our lives.
Love the "story" of our ALES204 class! It's great to look back and remind ourselves just how much we covered. And I agree with Becky, there is definitely an improvement in the quality of our tweets since the beginning of the semester! This class has definitely shown me the importance of thinking about what you write before posting on the web.
ReplyDeleteTwitter was a great way for me to think over what I just learned. I can definitely see my tweets becoming more critical as the semester went by. Thanks so much for introducing me to the world of Twitter.
ReplyDeleteIt was really interesting to see the progress of how the class as a whole went from asking about the Internet sites themselves to talking more about the content. Editing and critically thinking about the material presented has been a main theme and I believe that my skills have improved in this area because of it.
ReplyDeleteI had no idea there was such thing as "future casting"! It was really great to see a summary of the whole class over the term and to see what was really accomplished.
ReplyDeleteI am so much more aware of what social media sites can do for individuals, and I'm so happy that it was ALES 204 that opened up by eyes to this.