Tag » Globalization

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Study Shows Gap Growing Between Ric

Business Week examines the growing divide in a number of industrialized countries in the context of globalization of the world's economy.   Study Shows Gap Growing Between Ric »

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Tom Friedman and Don Tapscott speak to students

Both authors spoke to students at Educon 2.1 around education systems successfully preparing students for flat world global challenges.    Tom Friedman and Don Tapscott speak to students »

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Helping Young People in the New Participatory Culture

Erin B. Reilly, Research Director for Project New Media Literacies (NML), a research initiative based within MIT's Comparative Media Studies program, explores what it means to be literate in a globally interconnected, multicultural world, and how we preapre […]   Helping Young People in the New Participatory Culture »

Open The Future Signal

Open The Future

Jamais Cascio coined the immune-system metaphor in reference to U.S. response to insurgent warfare.  His analysis has applications to any situations in which entrenched institutions face insurgent-style disruption.    Open The Future »

Autoimmune Responses Trend

Autoimmune Responses

Brittle hierarchies will continue to act in ways that seem institutionally rational but which further destabilize weak, inflexible systems. Faced with a score of bottom-up innovations, many traditional hierarchical education systems will adopt such autoimmune […]   Autoimmune Responses »

Smart Localism Trend

Smart Localism

Smart networking, data transparency, and bottom-up monitoring enable responsive, open decision-making. New local monitoring tools, information sharing platforms, and networking practices support smart intra-community coordination. Camera phones, wikis […]   Smart Localism »

Diasporas as New Markets Trend

Diasporas as New Markets

Diverse movements of people create new identities and flows of learners. Global, domestic, and digital journeys will create a new cauldron of diasporic identities, as people find ways of communicating and connecting despite geographic separation. Physical […]   Diasporas as New Markets »