Corning Glass:
- how is education being visualised here? what is being learned and taught?
- what is the nature of communication in these future worlds?
- are these utopian or a dystopian visions to you? In what way(s)?
Sight Video (future vision watch without advertisements on vimeo instead )
Sight explores how the ubiquity of data and the increasingly blurry line between the digital and the material might play out in the sphere of human relationships. The focus on the emerging social and educational use of game-based ‘badging’ is particularly interesting. What is going on here, and how do you interpret the ending? How does this vision align and contrast with the ones in the first two films?
Click on this: to see a view of future
http://futurestates.tv/episodes/charlie-13%20
In this film, a young boy is about to reach the age where, in his society, he will be permanently ‘tagged’ by having a tracking device implanted in his body. A futuristic angle on a ‘coming of age’ story, the boy has to choose whether to submit to the requirements of his society, or seek a different life. By suggesting a degree of personal autonomy, the film diverges considerably from some of last week’s (new media, bendito machine III). To what extent does Charlie 13 represent a hopeful or a bleak future? How you answer this may depend on whether you see Charlie, and the resistance he represents, as a genuine
To engage in the MOOC
https://class.coursera.org/edc-001/wiki/view?page=DeterminingTheFuture