Congratulations to My Advisor, Dr. Arthur Harkins, Ph.D. on the Global Leapfrog Institute
The Global Leapfrog Institute is devoted to creating, through innovative education and human capital development, communities that can transcend current problems and challenges by empowering themselves with the tools to invent their own futures.
Congratulations again to Professor Harkins, and Ph.D. candidates John Moravec and George Kubik on their article in the inaugural issue of Global Leapfrog Education.
Their article is called, "Facilitating 21st Century Education: Leapfrogging Culture and Time through Simulational Learning."
Global Leapfrog Education has a Blog with information on the new journal
Today (Dec. 31, 2006) marks the first release of Global Leapfrog Education (ISSN 1933-0200), an open access, online journal hosted by the Global Leapfrog Institute, LLC.
As we learn to master the OJS journal software, articles will be released in two trenches. First, Cristobal Cobo (FLACSO Mexico) discusses new learning opportunities provided by “Web 2.0″ and successor technologies. In a near future release date, Arthur Harkins, John Moravec and George Kubik (University of Minnesota) describe a leapfrog pathway through simulational learning.
Introduction and mission
Global Leapfrog Education (GLE) is devoted to exploring how, through education and human capital development, communities can transcend current problems and challenges by empowering themselves to invent their own futures. GLE publishes articles spanning a wide range of interests related to leapfrog education (viz. change, technologies, knowledge production and innovation, global youth leadership, and futures-oriented philosophies and theories of education). This journal provides open access to all of its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.
Our electronic submission process is designed to facilitate rapid publication. Once an article is published, peer reviewers submit written, critical feedback to the author as an addendum to the article, published in GLE. Such reviews may be considered publications in their own right. Reviewers and other participants are also encouraged to contribute to discussions related to each article via the journal blog at this website.
What is leapfrogging?
- Leapfrogging means jumping over obstacles to achieve goals.
- Leapfrogging is a leadership necessity.
- Leapfrogging saves precious time.
- Leapfrogging builds institutional and community prestige.
- Leapfrogging works best if everybody collaborates.
Focus and scope
The first country to adopt the Leapfrog Paradigm, bolster it with advanced communications technologies, and apply it in preschool through graduate contexts, will either continue to lead or will acquire newfound leadership among emerging knowledge and innovation economies.
We are aware of the need for simplicity, but the reality is that the Leapfrog Paradigm we describe is fundamentally cognitive in nature. It is the new educational mission required to support knowledge based innovation economies. New language and concepts are required.
The focus of GLE is on the language, concepts and education required to produce knowledge and direct it toward continuous innovation. This calls for an entirely new education mission –one that requires a different vocabulary and mindset compared to the now globally-distributed education missions for agricultural, industrial, and information-based societies.
GLE will help readers and contributors:
- Understand that states, regions and individuals are in a global competition in human capital development and application;
- Understand how technology shapes human world views and choices;
- Understand the relationship between technological change and social change with emphasis on the emerging Technological Singularity;
- Understand exponential acceleration of technological, scientific, societal and economic changes;
- Understand multiple perceived realities and their vectors;
- Develop leapfrog education scenarios related to technology, innovation, systems design and integration; and,
- Connect these leapfrog scenarios with 21st Century education redesign and redirection.
Journal keywords and key concepts
accelerating change, basic knowledge engine ecology, creativity, cybernetics, design, entrepreneurship, global leapfrog education, invention, innovation, knowledge engine ecologies, knowledge production, knowledge engine ecologies, memes and new social patterns in thought and belief, sociocultural prosumers, youth development
Website: Global Leapfrog Institute
Website of Journal: Global Leapfrog Education
Blog for Global Leapfrog Education
Blog of John Moravec Education Futures
Wow! How cool is that? I think that this is the future. You think that it is now. I'm humbled.
Posted by: Ron Davison | January 12, 2007 at 06:59 PM
Hey, thanks!!!
Posted by: John Moravec | January 16, 2007 at 09:45 PM