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		<title>Lost Futures Language, Barcodes?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Sep 2010 19:13:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Futures alternatives can often become obsolete, lost in the landfills, forgotten or replaced by the next &#8216;new&#8217; thing. However, on that rare occasion you come across an artifact that reveals a lost future, they can be fantastic entrance points for teaching and understanding the inner workings of futures.
Here is a prime example. The Sprites&#8217; Adventures [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Found Graffiti</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Sep 2010 02:29:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sign far side of picture: Private Property
Window A: God is Love!
Graffiti: No Future
Window B: Yellow Happy Face 
This graffiti I found tagged on the back of a daycare center in Baltimore City.

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		<title>Alternative Library</title>
		<link>http://earlyfutures.com/?p=763</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Sep 2010 02:22:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My present home city of Baltimore is a very antagonistic, yet at times, very hopeful place to be working. There are a number of institutions and individuals focused on alternatives here, due to the interesting, conflicting fact that there are high volumes of dissent and intense violence due to economic, racial and class conflict. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Depressed Preschoolers?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Aug 2010 22:01:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Early Futures</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recent article in the New York Times Magazine regarding the possibilities that moody children are actually depressed: Can Preschoolers Be Depressed?

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		<title>2 International Relations Books for Children</title>
		<link>http://earlyfutures.com/?p=731</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2010 19:03:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The concepts of national relations, global relations, international relations, intergalactic relations etc. are imperative to discuss with children at a young age. These two books are excellent introductions to the topics of nation/state and global/galactic relations. They each touch on topics colonialism, war, peace, national identity and race relations. 
The Butter Battle Book  / [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Found Object: Futures Postcard</title>
		<link>http://earlyfutures.com/?p=736</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2010 17:39:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Early Futures</dc:creator>
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		<title>Adventure Playgrounds and Workyards / Notes</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 18:51:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Early Futures</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a summary of notes written a few years back in the effort to gather the pros and cons of starting an adventure playground and for what purpose. Most of these notes come from a variety of written resources (mentioned at end of article). 
To those of you who have not heard of adventure [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Teaching the Future</title>
		<link>http://earlyfutures.com/?p=722</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 18:35:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Early Futures</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Journal of Future Studies, an international journal of foresight and futures studies, is putting out a three part symposium of articles on &#8220;Teaching the Future.&#8221; Early Futures will have an article in the third part on early childhood, to be published in December. Anyone interested in what futures teaching is about should read these [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Inspirational Children&#8217;s Book by R. Buckminster Fuller</title>
		<link>http://earlyfutures.com/?p=705</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 16:59:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I felt it to be true that children had great advantage in this respect as they are not burdened with the misconceptions and obsolete propositions with which the grown-ups have been inundated by formal &#8220;education&#8221;. &#8211; Buckminster Fuller 
The infamous Buckminster Fuller has already been mentioned in a previous Early Futures article as an excellent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Neuroscience, Meditation and Education</title>
		<link>http://earlyfutures.com/?p=694</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2010 18:24:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Early Futures</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Neuro Education Initiative Summit at Johns Hopkins University brings together Neuroscientists and Educators to present contemporary research in brain science and how it affects educational functions.
The article reviewing the entire summit is here: Dana Foundation Report.
There were a number of topics, but the one I was most interested in was the affects of Integrated [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Children Tell The Future</title>
		<link>http://earlyfutures.com/?p=661</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jun 2010 22:32:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Early Futures</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Futures 2010
(brought to you by the 4-and 5-year-old&#8217;s at Bolton Hill Nursery School)
Each year we do a futures unit near the end of their last year of preschool. This year we thought and compared three different futures:
1. What do you wish the future would really be like?  (Utopian futures)
2. What do you not want the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Committee for Stress-Free Schools</title>
		<link>http://earlyfutures.com/?p=655</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2010 03:04:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Early Futures</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We all could promote holistic health and integrated education in our classrooms more frequently. To help do so, I turn to the wonderful research and advocacy group, Committee for Stress-Free Schools. The Committee promotes Transcendental Meditation, among many other techniques for centering in schools and backs this promotion up with hundreds of articles, resources, videos [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Non-Human Relations</title>
		<link>http://earlyfutures.com/?p=580</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 May 2010 21:16:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Early Futures</dc:creator>
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One thing you almost always see with a child is their non-human companion: a worn out blanket, a stuffed animal, a funny piece of cloth, a baby doll etc.  Stuffies and the like are usually seen merely as a &#8220;comforting item,&#8221; usually used to comfort or to be held over a child&#8217;s head if they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unanswerable Questions</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Apr 2010 17:51:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Early Futures</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, what are the questions that 4-and 5-year-olds come up with when asked, &#8220;What is your hardest question or what is something you want to know the answer to?&#8221;
Here they are. If you can answer any of them, let me know:
HARD QUESTIONS
Why did the baby cross the road? (Errol)
What is inside the USS Nicholas Submarine? [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Open Source Education, NYT Article</title>
		<link>http://earlyfutures.com/?p=558</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Apr 2010 11:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Early Futures</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The New York Times had an excellent section on open source education courses in today&#8217;s Sunday paper.
Using open source materials found on Youtube, Academic Earth, OpenCourseWare Consortium among others are wonderful ways to keep education an embodied part of your daily learning practice, as opposed to an isolated thing you have to go &#8220;do.&#8221; 
Top [...]]]></description>
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