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School / Work Affiliation: Glocal Vantage Inc

Blog: http://insights-foresight.blogspot.com

Favored IM Account: Windows Live Messinger

Skype Account: paul.schumann

Twitter / Plurk / Other Account: 1nnovant2003

About Me: Futurist and innovation process consultant. He is the founder and past president of the Central Texas Chapter of the World Future Society (www.centexwfs.ning.com). He is the president of Glocal Vantage Inc. (www.glocalvantage.com). He is a member of the advisory boards of the Marketing Research Association (www.mra-net.org) and ACC’s Center for Community-based and Nonprofit Organizations (www. nonprofitaustin.org) .He is also active in Texas Forums (www.texasforums.org) and Extreme Democracy (www.extremedemocracy.com).

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Go to GVI and In3C for more information about Paul and examples of his thinking and writing. And you can follow Paul on Twitter and join his Twibe on the future. You can also network with him on Facebook , LinkedIn and SlideShare. Paul is a member of Innovating Innovation, We Are Teachers, Innovation Community, Classroom 2.0, Changeblogger Network, Integrating Technology for Instruction and Learning and Spaces of Interaction.

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Complexity and the Future of Education

Posted on September 6, 2010 at 12:08pm 0 Comments 0 Likes

The increasing pace of what French philosopher-paleoanthropologist Teilhard de Chardin characterized as the “complexification of human circumstances” has made the nexus between complexity and education a timely and purposeful subject for examination.

On The Horizon announces a Special Issue on “Complexity and the Future of Education,” and invites authors to submit papers addressing the implications of… Continue

1, 2, a Few, Many

Posted on September 6, 2010 at 11:26am 0 Comments 0 Likes

The purpose of this article is to give a brief history of the development of complexity science for people unfamiliar with the details of complexity science, describe the different types of complexity, discuss examples of the types of complexity, and introduce some ideas about how complexity could be introduced into education. This essay summarizes other work in the field of complexity science, and organizes the results in a… Continue

Sharing Some of My Knowledge

Posted on July 9, 2009 at 10:27am 0 Comments 0 Likes

I'm a futurist and innovation consultant. Over the next two months I'm going to be sharing my knowledge in webinars at no charge. The schedule is:

July 23: Widgets, Folksonomies, Mashups and Syndication: An Introduction to Web 2.0

August 6: Market Intelligence… Continue

Thoughts on Innovation Systems

Posted on July 9, 2009 at 10:17am 0 Comments 0 Likes

In Complexity: A Guided Tour, Melanie Mitchell wrote about a series of questions that were being circulated among complexity scientists. I liked the questions very much and thought that they also applied to work on innovation systems. So, I’ve modified them for that application:

1. Why did you begin working with innovation systems?

2. How would you define an… Continue