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• Anti-virus information and computer virus hoax messages

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Visions of education in the future

• Workbenches
  • Biology Workbench
  • Biology Student Workbench
  • Web Evaluation Workbench
• Language construction sets
  • SF Story
  • Kant generator
• Augmented reality: a merging of the virtual and the real
• Telepresence

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Your 2020 visions

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How will people learn in the future? A range of visions

• Super high-tech classrooms - the classroom "video arcade" nightmare
  Example: a "classroom of tomorrow" at Yale
• Home telelearning - the totally distributed option
• Neighborhood Learning Centers

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Visions of K-12 education

• utopian visions
• disutopian visions

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Kinds of knowledge

• Common knowledge
• Specialized knowledge

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Environments for learning: A vision of a Learning Center

• size
• social structure
• kinds of interactional frameworks to support learning

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Neighborhood Office Centers

• Telecommuting: central office vs. home work
• NOCs as an intermediate case
• benefits & costs

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Why learn?