Learning and Education Sessions at the WorldFuture 2011 Conference

As educational opportunities move out of the traditional classroom and into cyberspace and beyond, the very paradigm of how students are engaged is being redefined. Mobile devices? Location-based technologies? Gaming? Holograms? Artificial intelligence? All of these things, and more, are converging to provide unparalled experiences for today’s learners.

This session highlights the best student products from the award-winning graduate program in futures studies at the University of Houston. The session will include the best essays, forecasts, scenarios, and plans from the next generation of professional futurists.

DesignWorlds for Learning Inc. and DesignWorlds for College/Careers have developed a Future STEAM Careers Navigator and Network (Future SCANN) to help students navigate, envision, and create STEAM careers—those in science, technology, engineering/entertainment, arts, and math.

Of the 6,000 unique languages on Planet Earth, as many as 5,000 could perish by 2050. Accelerating the decline in the diversity of languages is the increasingly globalized nature of communications.