Noting that everyday creativity often requires imaginative insight, this book provides opportunities for children and adults to invent and problem solve by confronting puzzling scenarios that invite visual imagination. Each of the 71 activities in the book begins with a scenario that promotes speculative imagination. In the creative- and…

Relatively few individuals have attempted to view the future of computers in education, and those who have done so often tend to focus too much upon present capabilities rather than thinking about the changes that new technology will introduce in the future. George Leonard's book "Education and Ecstasy" provides an interesting picture of…

Fourteen science fiction stories are collected and arranged under the themes, MarsAmerica, Progress, Machine, Society, and Weapons. These stories make statements about the present as well as the future and allow students to confront that future before it overtakes them. The purpose of the anthology is to prepare students for the different…