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To Boldly Go Where No Learner Has Gone Before: Independent Inquiry, Educational Technology, and Society in Science Fiction
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Andrews, Gillian – E-Learning and Digital Media, 2015
Possibilities for a different form of education have provided rich sources of inspiration for science fiction writers. Isaac Asimov, Orson Scott Card, Neal Stephenson, Octavia Butler, and Vernor Vinge, among others, have all projected their own visions of what education could be. These visions sometimes engage with technologies that are currently…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Educational Technology, Science Fiction, Science and Society
Two Centuries After: Schooling and Social Change in an Orwellian Futureworld.
Shane, Harold G. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1984
Fictional account of educational procedures in the year 2184 A.D. (including "laser projected holoschooling") and of the wide variety of spectacular changes that will have occurred worldwide as a result of advanced behavior modification and new technology available in the first two hundred years after 1984. (JBM)
Descriptors: Futures (of Society), Science Fiction, Social Change, Technological Advancement
Utopia, Technology, and the Evolution of Society.
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Lewis, Arthur O. – Journal of General Education, 1985
Provides an overview of utopian writing and experimentation from Plato to the present, looking at the impact of technological advancement on the individual and the society and arguing that "appropriate technology" may well be an outcome of "evolution in action." (AYC)
Descriptors: Collective Settlements, Literary Criticism, Literature, Science Fiction
Two Lesser Dystopias: "We" and "A Clockwork Orange."
Barnsley, John H. – World Future Society Bulletin, 1984
Both the Russian novel "We" and the Anthony Burgess novel "A Clockwork Orange" offer frightening glimpses of a future society. But the contrast between these visions is striking. "We" is concerned with the misuse of technology, Burgess's book with the misuse of psychology. Both warn about the misuse of state power.…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Futures (of Society), Political Power, Psychology
Education for AD 2001: Science Fiction, Futurology and Educational Planning.
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Grant, Nigel – Scottish Educational Review, 1981
Uses some of the most thoughtful writers of science fiction as guides to possible future educational needs and developments and offers suggestions as to ways Scotland might adapt and develop its educational system to meet those needs and developments. (CM)
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Development, Educational Planning, Elementary Secondary Education
Another Tommorrow: A Science Fiction Anthology/with Teacher's Guide.
Hollister, Bernard C. – 1974
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…
Descriptors: Creative Thinking, Futures (of Society), Interdisciplinary Approach, Moral Values
Films on the Future: A Selective Listing.
Martin, Marie – 1973
This annotated list of films focuses on fourteen subject areas: 1) Atomic Energy/Fuel/Power; 2) Automation/Computer/Data Processing; 3) Biochemical Research/Behavioral Sciences; 4) Communications/Transportation; 5) Concepts; 6) Ecology/Pollution/Weather Modification; 7) Education; 8) Food/Population Control; 9) Ocean/Ocean Sciences; 10)…
Descriptors: Aerospace Technology, Annotated Bibliographies, Audiovisual Aids, Automation