Imagining Canada's Future

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Imagining Canada's Future
Stephen Downes, Nov 17, 2015, SSHRC Fall Conference: Imagining Canada's Future, Ottawa, Ontario
Talk I gave at SSHRC's Fall Forum called Imaging Canada's Future. No slides for this one; I worked off a set of notes. I introduced some overall thoughts about talking about the future, described some of the 'same old ways' we think about the future and meeting future needs, and then suggests that what we should really be learning from the 21st century is that knowledge is complex, fluid, changing, and not usefully described in terms of rules, facts, principles, and outcome. More...