A look at the 2007 edtech
“..statues of Matti Tedre will be put up all over Finland … when farmers find out how much the statues scare the birds away”. This has been predicted by Matti and Justus a year ago for the year Two Thousand.
How about 2007, what is coming down the road? Perhaps not as hilarious as those we heard from Justus and Matti, I am presenting here some predictions, with a varying degree of speculation, hunch, and seriousness.
– There will be at least two new PhD graduates, however, no more than five.
– SciFest@Joensuu will attract more than 10000 visitors, out of which half will in future enroll to the CS dept@Joensuu. Other half will become science and technology ignorants forever.
– Members of the research group finally start to use delicious, as suggested by Andrés. Andrés, however, start to convince them to use digg.
– Roman will need only another 35 good advices from Justus. Per month.
– By the end of 2007, a half of edtech users are on a Mac. Another half uses Linux. And the remaining half does not return from Mexico, why to bother with computers anyway.
– Jeliot 3 is used as the main support tool in the introductory cs courses worldwide, and students write their alternative-end theses in Woven Stories.
– Grant proposals are written in Woven Stories, too.
– EdTech builds a satellite hub on the Moon. The reason, as lately discovered, is that the proposal is not proofread by the court-language-editor.
– After a long fast, at least three new edu-tech games are developed. One for seniors, one for kids, and one for Jussi to stop him from the constant complaining.
– Mikko becomes a minister of education of African Union, outcomes of which are yet to be observed.
– All members of edtech join the North-Carelian Africa society.
– The edtech joint paper “Ultimate confusion: an empirical evaluation of a novel game-like strategy for teaching programming in technology enhanced remote village classrooms in developing countries” becomes the single most cited edtech publication ever.
– To counter-attack, Justus publishes a paper “I always knew the strategy works and my students love it.”, in ICALT 2007.
– Kid’s club brand merchandise finally yields first results, as a night club of the same name opens in the city center.
The discussion below is open for your insights about 2007 & edtech.
- Group research combines the wii, the nintendo ds, the xbox, the dance mat and the eye tracker to create a revolutionary virtual inmersive funkadelic video game.
Best wishes for 2007
for sure I like the last proposal :-)
Roman will become rich and famous by finding a way to permanently implant an eye-tracking device in participants’ heads. A mutation leads to the creation of the first Borg.
Behaviorism will become the leading educational philosophy of EdTech Delta.
Matti will win the title in the 12th round of a match with an elderly Rocky Balboa (but will lose the title in a rematch).
Erkki is overheard saying, “innovation schminnovation.”
Second Life comes into a period of 20 years of unprecedented peace and harmony when Carolina is appointed as Her Royal Highness, the Queen of Second Life.
Justus will tell his first funny joke.