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Monday, July 02, 2001
http://www.syllabus.com/syllabusmagazine/article.asp?ID=3687 The Spirit of Invention: Edging Our Way to 21st Century Teaching Judith Boettcher Here, Judith Boettcher takes a look at the dynamics of technological change in education and its meaning for the future of 21st century teaching. One insight from the paradigm literature—particularly from futurist Joel Barker—is that the most "far out" trends can be identified early by asking, "What is happening at the edge?" For it is at the edge that the weird, the surprising, the "you've got to be kidding" kind of applications occur first, often with ripple effects for teaching and learning. The principle of watching "edge happenings" maps well to the diffusion of innovation theories of Everett Rogers and the five phases of technology adoption: innovators, early adopters, early majority, late majority, and the laggards. The edge happenings map to the early innovators, those who envision and create new applications....
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