Connecting past, present and future

• Analysis of past technological change shows that people adopt new innovations but mostly use them to maintain existing features of their lives. • Present and future policy in many areas would benefit from greater awareness of how technological change has interacted with individual and familial practices in the past

Playing in Northampton: Connecting Past, Present and Future

Northampton is a key centre of toy design and distribution in the UK. This chapter looks at the industry from Bassett Lowke in 1890's through to John Crane toys today

Monsoon Responses to Climate Changes—Connecting Past, Present and Future

Purpose of Review: Knowledge of how monsoons will respond to external forcings through the twenty-first century has been confounded by incomplete theories of tropical climate and insufficient representation in climate models. This review highlights recent insights from past warm climates and historical trends that can inform our understanding of monsoon evolution in the context of an emerging energetic framework. Recent Findings: Projections consistent with paleoclimate evidence and theory indicate expanded/wetter monsoons in Africa and Asia, with continued uncertainty in the Americas. Twentieth century observations are not congruent with expectations of monsoon responses to radiative forcing from greenhouse gases, due to the confounding effect of aerosols. Lines of evidence from warm climate analogues indicate that while monsoons respond in globally coherent and predictable ways to orbital forcing and inter-hemispheric thermal gradients, there are differences in response to these forcings and also between land and ocean. Summary: Further understanding of monsoon responses to climate change will require refinement of the energetic framework to incorporate zonal asymmetries and the use of model hierarchies

The Eastern Goochland Greenway: Connecting Goochland\u27s Past, Present, and Future

The Eastern Goochland Greenway Plan proposes a shared-use trail that is nested within the Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation’s (DCR) conceptualization of a statewide trail system called the James River Heritage Trail (JRHT). The JRHT includes shared use bicycle and pedestrian facilities as well as water trail access points that would connect pre-existing trail systems to new proposed trails that are parallel with and in close proximity to Virginia’s James River corridor and all of the natural, cultural, and historic resource opportunities that the surrounding areas offer. Specifically, the Eastern Goochland Greenway aims to serve two major purposes; to safely and sustainably connect the natural, cultural, and historic resources along the River Road West (Virginia State Route 6) and James River corridors in eastern Goochland County through providing a shared use trail for recreational enthusiasts, casual users, and commuters alike, and to contribute to ancillary benefits related to human health, economic impact, and environmental health that shared use recreational trails can provide

Connecting Past and Future Educational Practice: A Post-COVID-19 Present

The challenges of supporting learners at a distance are enduring. But the nature of these challenges is changing, and this change has been particularly notable since the beginning of the pandemic and the rapid worldwide move to distance and online learning. A brief look is taken at the evolving nature of the distance-student experience under the theme of “Time is the new distance”. This is complemented with four papers in this issue, each of which is concerned with an aspect of meeting the challenges of supporting distance learners. Hartline et al. draw attention to the importance of the teacher’s presence in decreasing student anxiety. Forbes explores the effectiveness of asynchronous communication as an effective learner support. Cameron et al. share a national perspective from a wider international study, concluding that clear communication by institutions and other authorities can reduce uncertainty for students and is necessary to mitigate the negative effects of future disruptions to study. And finally, Adebisi and Olatunji round off the set of articles with findings that the key psychosocial experience of students revolves around the flexibility and cost of distance learning, work–life pressures, and the availability of faculty

Connecting the past, present, and future of East Central Indiana: Nature and culture connect us all

Students and teachers in East Central Indiana lack educational curricula that feature natural and cultural concept that are specific to the region. Curricula that will allow students to learn about the environment, nature, and ethnohistory of the area in which they live. There has been previous work creating environmental education lessons for Indiana; many of them give broad information or are written for areas of Indiana that are not specific to East Central Indiana. Research suggests that younger students, who are learning the educational themes of environment, culture, and nature, relate better if the places they are learning about are near them. According to a myriad of examples in environmental education literature, it is important that students learn about what is happening in and around their immediate surroundings. Students need to feel like they can connect to the place they live. Through interview, direct observation, and work in the field, I developed three place-based environmental education lesson packets that address these issues. The three lesson areas I cover focus on: Reconnecting- to place and fostering a sense of stewardship in local green spaces; interconnecting- learning with specific context about native people that were/are in the area; and positive examples- pointing out not just the negatives of environmental issues like species loss but focusing on species revitalization projects. Through investigative research, I have discussed factors affecting nature-deficit disorder, educational constraints to providing students with nature- based education lessons, culminating in place-based nature education lessons specific to students in grades three through five in East Central Indiana.This is a 6 hour creative project.Thesis (M.A.

Creating momentum for digital transformation without a burning platform

To drive your digital transformation, you need to become skilful in connecting the past, present and future in a compelling story, write Verena Stingl, Marcus Lantz and Josef Oehme

When knowledge is insufficient: Wisdom in a complex world

How to manage uncertain and unpredictable situations has been a major challenge facing managers and academics for decades. The development of practice and theory in knowledge management has been one important response. In this paper, however, we argue that knowledge and knowledge management may not be sufficient when dealing with emergent and unforeseen situations as knowledge tends to be past-oriented in terms of its formative components, while emergent situations are future-oriented, which may or may not be rooted in the past. In this paper, therefore, we explore this past-present-future conundrum by explaining how mere reliance on the past may restrict organizations’ ability to deal with emergent situations in the future. Finally, the role of innovation and wisdom will be introduced as a bridge connecting current past-oriented knowledge to unknown and unpredictable future-oriented events

Medical School Watercooler Newsletter - July 9, 2017

This is the July 9, 2017 edition of the Frederick P. Whiddon College of Medicine\u27s Newsletter - Watercooler. Contents Include: July Med School Café - ‘Managing Burn Injury: Past, Present and Future\u27 USA Residents, Medical Students Connecting the World Through Medicine USA Medical Students Present Research at ACEP Conference Mark Your Calendar: 44th Annual Medical Student Research Day USA Welcomes Dr. Percy Crocke