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Public Seminar: JOHN SEELY BROWN - A new culture of learning - Fri 26th Nov 4:30pm QUT
If you are a researcher, teacher, academic, or IT professional living in Moggill/Bellbowrie, you may like to know that JOHN SEELY BROWN, former chief scientist of XEROX PARC, will be in town next week and will give a public talk at QUT.
You are cordially invited:
JOHN SEELY BROWN
A New Culture of Learning:
Cultivating the Imagination in a World of Constant Change
4:30pm Friday 26th November
Queensland University of Technology
Kelvin Grove Campus
F509
Co-sponsored by
Queensland University of Technology:
Faculty of Science and Technology; Faculty of Built Environment and Engineering; School of Design
and
University of Queensland
Centre for Educational Innovation and Technology
RSVP (numbers limited): m.brereton@qut.edu.au
ABSTRACT: The 21st century is a world in constant change. Here we will take up the challenge of understanding how the forces of change can not only be managed, but how they inspire and invite us to imagine a future of learning that is as powerful as it is optimistic. We will look at the challenges that our education and learning environment face in a fresh way.
By exploring play, innovation, and the cultivation of the imagination as cornerstones of learning, we sketch a vision of learning for the future that is easily achievable and that grows along with the technology that fosters it and the people that engage with it. We are striving for an arc of life learning that shows us a way to follow our passions and make sense of a world that is constantly growing, evolving and changing.
BIOGRAPHY: John Seely Brown is a visiting scholar and advisor to the Provost at the University of Southern California (USC) and the Independent Co-Chairman of the Deloitte Center for the Edge. John is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Education, a Fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence and a Trustee of the MacArthur Foundation. He has published over 100 papers in scientific journals.
He was Chief Scientist of Xerox Corporation and the director of its Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), a position he held for nearly two decades. He was awarded the Harvard Business Reviews 1991 McKinsey Award for hisarticle Research that Reinvents the Corporation. With Paul Duguid he co-authored the acclaimed book The Social Life of Information (HBS Press, 2000) that has been translated into 9 languages. In 2004 he was inducted in the Industry Hall of Fame. His current book, The Power of Pull, co-authored with John Hagel was released April 13, 2010.
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