lead sponsor: the UK's Department of Children Schools and Families DCSF

charrette 2: cognitive science and enhanced cognition - from psychopharmacology to brain training
the event runs this week

provocations for charrette 2 this page links to an intentionally randon set of provocations ahead of our charrette on cognitive science and enhanced cognition - from psychopharmacology to brain training - with a view to what it means for policy and learning. Just because stuff is here doesn't mean it has any value other than to help us focus a bit before we meet... sandberg and bostrom: cognitive enhancement: a review of technology from the "future of humanity institute" apple's knowledge navigator: a vision of smart computing from the 80s - AI, voice rec, agents, traditional university classes, data visualisations... special powers aren't just for comic-book characters: report of a stanford university conference exploring transhumanism, bioethics, human enhancement and human rights (these are provocations, right?) the mekon :"those puny earth creatures cannot defeat me... the greatest brain in the universe"... etc - from dan dare comic strip in the 1950s eagle comic smart mice: bbc reporting of "smart mice" back in 2000: "but I think that we are moving ever closer to finding an agent that will facilitate when we are learning".

event date: 18 - 19 march 08 location: tower bridge, london chair: prof stephen heppell rapporteur: bill lucas media: illumina (sabrina organo producer, scott munroe, stephen crawley) attendees: nick bostrom: university of oxford stephen emmott: microsoft research tom heaton: eidos - brain benders maarjte schermer: erasmus medical center derek robertson: teaching and learning scotland eugene sadler-smith: university of surrey bill lucas: rapporteur stephen heppell: heppell.net lys johnson: heppell.net dominic flitcroft: dcsf bill gibbon: futurelab doug brown: becta

horizonTAL - horizon scanning for learning from heppell.net

last updated: Tuesday, March 18, 2008 10:30 AM