The “Imagining the Internet” Web site developed by Elon’s School of Communications in partnership with the Pew Internet & American Life Project is one of 11 Web sites highlighted in the May/June edition of Higher Learning Magazine. Higher Learning is an electronic publication that focuses on technology-based teaching and learning at post-secondary institutions across Canada and the U.S.
The magazine cites the work of Janna Anderson, assistant professor and director of Internet projects for Elon’s School of Communications in developing the site.
The site includes video interviews and audio podcasts featuring leading technology visionaries; educational fun and games for elementary school children; lesson plans for teachers of students from elementary through college age; a fascinating round-up of future forecasts by the world’s foremost forward-thinkers; and a brief history of communications networks.
Features of the site also include hundreds of predictions about the Internet’s future made by netizens from around the world; a form with which anyone anywhere can submit a vision to be shared on the site; annual surveys that glean predictions from tech-nology stakeholders; and a database that includes more than 4,000 predictions made by a thousand Internet pioneers between 1990 and 1995.
To download a copy of the magazine in PDF format, click here. (The Elon reference is on page 17.)
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