Arthur Harkins

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Arthur Harkins, Ph.D., is an associate professor in the Department of Educational Policy and Administration and faculty director of the Graduate Certificate in Innovation Studies program at the University of Minnesota (UMN) who co-authored StoryTech with George Kubik.

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We are all search engines is a slogan associated with the University’s Driven to Discover campaign. It is a metaphor –or possibly a simile– that models the human mind on silicon processors. Humans are not search engines.

Humans are inherently more creative and capable than procedural automatons. A more uplifting approach is to stress the creativity and innovativeness of the human mind, and to embed these within thoroughly restructured services to University of Minnesota undergraduates.

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• Anticipatory thinking
  • College of Education and Human Development (CEHD)
• Futures studies
  • Futures techniques
  • Involution (philosophy)
• Socialization

[edit] External links

• Building a Leapfrog University
  • UMN-CHED Leapfrog Web
  • StoryTech via Education futures
• UMN Professional Profile
  • Innovation in Language Education
  • ... Words of wisdom
• TakingIT Global - (Inspire. Inform. Involve.)