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RESOURCES
CLUSTERED BY THEME
EMERGING CONVERGENT, AMBIENT TECHNOLOGIES
AND THEIR IMPACTS ON BEHAVIOR
Technology convergence is rapidly advancing, creating new generations of technology-enhanced
experiences. Progressively, these converged technologies are attaining greater amenity,
disappearing into people's comfort zones, creating new, enhanced learning spaces.
Future learning environments on campus and beyond will be shaped by a combination of mobile
technologies and ubiquitous technologies that will be embedded/situated in physical facilities,
automobiles, trains, places, and other spaces. Taken together, these technologies will create an
ambient technology environment that will enhance human performance and intelligences, and
enable changes in our patterns of behavior. We should assess today's learning environments
with an eye to these future developments.
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• Mark S. Valenti, “Technology Convergence and
the Future of Learning Spaces,”
NLII Conference, 2004.
This article explores the impact of converging technologies on the future of learning spaces and experiences.
It is an excellent bridge between current practice and the future. That bridge is taken even further by the following citations.
www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/NLI0438.pdf
• Donald M. Norris, Jon Mason, and Paul Lefrere, “Transforming
e-Knowledge: A Revolution in the Sharing of Knowledge.”
Society for College and University Planning, 2003.
This book explores how ambient technologies are changing the manner in which we experience knowledge, in the process creating
"new dimensionrs of knowing." It includes vignettes on the future and descriptions of future learning environments and experiences.
Copies of this book will be distributed at the workshop.
www.scup.org/eknowledge/
• Ray Kurzweil, “Reinventing Humanity: The Future of
Machine-Human Intelligence.”
The Futurist, March/April 2006, pp. 39-46.
Kurzweil's book, The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology, predicts a radical evolution of humans over the
next 40 years, based on the confluence of three revolutions: genetic, nanotechnology, and robotic. This article
is a shortened version of the book.
http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/futurist/access/986756301.html?dids=986756301:986756301:986756301:986756301&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT:TG:PAGE&date=Mar%2FApr+2006&author=Ray+Kurzweil&pub=The+Futurist&edition=&startpage=39&desc=Reinventing+Humanity%3A+The+Future+of+Machine-Human+Intelligence
Please let us know of additional relevent resources,
or if any of the above links have changed.
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