The Education in a
Knowledge based Society
Dr. Florin Munteanu
Center for Complexity Studies- UNESCO center
The Big ProblemWe live in a “turbulent” world - lack of prediction at different scales; - psychological instabilities of people, at all ages and nationalities - an unstable and hostile environment due to the global climate changes
“I think the next century will be the century of complexity.” Stephen Hawking
- the explosion of new technologies, new materials, new products;
-automation at large scale;
- miniaturizations and dematerialization of products (MEMS, nanotechnology, virtual instrumentation, virtual prototyping);
- globalization of productive activities (any time anywhere communications, tele-work, intercultural interactions, acceleration until turbulence of the economical life)
The “exponential” grows of everything
nanotechnologies
Agricultural age
Industrial Age
Information Age
AI
Knowledge-Based Age
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Computers
Material resources
Steam engine
Singularity
Immaterialresources
2020…2040
To manage the sustainable development problem at global scale, in a honest and professional way, we need a new insight, a new PARADIGM
Prof. Alex Zrttl and his team have constructed a fully functional, fully integrated radio receiver, orders-of-magnitude smaller than any previous radio, from a single carbon nanotube. The single nanotube serves, at once, as all major components of a radio: antenna, tuner, amplifier, and demodulator.
APPLICATIONS
• Radio for mobile, wireless networks, GPS and otherelectronic devices;• Radio remote control for biosensors, medicine andtelemedicine, neuro-
muscular control;• Ultra miniaturized acoustic prosthesis;• RF antennas, adjustable filters, amplifiers, demodulated Mass
Spectrometry;• Chemical Sensors
The Big Shift or… the end of work
Profound changes in the nature of the work - form hard work to ….intellectual and creative activities; - from routine work to…. a stressful confrontation with continues news; - form physical used-up to…. a nervous breakdown
• Volatility of the SME’s in a global and turbulent market; • Increasing fluctuations of the personnel in a company • Continuous and rapid changes in the cultural
values, in attitudes and values
A new paradigm… a critical point for humanity
Structure 1
Structure 2
Critical point
From Complicate to COMPLEX
The science of XX-th century bring up the importance of the Man in the metabolism of the socio-economical system (GAIA vision)
- The science of Complex Systems that define a nonlinear approach on Reality (fractals, chaos theory, dissipative systems, constructal theory etc.)
- Computational science (or scientific computing) that create extraordinary tools for the modeling and simulations of the dynamic and evolutions of real objects
- Quantum physics, Cognitive Science focus on the importance of the Observer and his intentionality on the evolution of the Reality
- The science of Mind – a new approach on the study of the Consciousness and Free Will
The big breakthrough of XX-th century
Latin word complexus, signifies "entwined", "twisted together". This may be interpreted in the following way: in order to have a complex you need two or more components, which are joined in such a way that it is difficult to separate them. Similarly, the Oxford Dictionary defines something as "complex" if it is "made of (usually several) closely connected parts".
Escher
To start with a definition:
Complexity science
The new science of complex systems will be at the heart of the future of the Worldwide Knowledge Society
It is providing radical new ways of understanding the physical, biological, ecological, and social universe.
Living Roadmap for Complex Systems ScienceA social command in E.U.
• a better understanding of the natural environment in which engineered systems exist, e.g. regulation, ethics, markets; and
• a better understanding of the design, engineering and management process which is often itself a creative multilevel complex human system, capable of great successes but inherently liable to spectacular failures.
ONCE-CS
Profile:The Center for Complex Studies (CCS) is a non-profit, non-governmental and non-political organization. It was founded in 1996 as a result of a private, thus being one of the first fully private research institute in Romania.
Mission:The main objectives of CCS are to promote the new paradigm of Complexity and to fill in the gap between theory and applications in this field.
Research fields:•The science of complexity (fractals, chaotic systems, critical systems and noemic systems). • Bioeconomics; Econophysics and Jurisdinamics• Knowledge Society-related prospective research;• New educational methods, technologies and attitudes (e-learning, content design, content management, learning management systems).
CCS - Promoting the Complexity Science and its applications
• Econophysics
2005 – the first summer school on econophysics in Romania
Econophysics is an interdisciplinary research field, applying theories and methods originally developed by physicists in order to solve problems in economics, usually those including uncertainty or stochastic elements and nonlinear dynamics.
• percolation models,
• chaotic models,
• self-organizing criticality,
• information theory,
• heterogeneous agents,
• fluid dynamics,
• quantum mechanics
The first commission: “Complexity Studies in
Economy” – Romanian Chamber of Commerce
• Jurisdynamics
CCS - Promoting Complexity Science and its applications
"the law must be stable, but it cannot stand still."
Roscoe Pound
•So what does complexity theory and its fancy lexicon bring to the table?
•Is it just a metaphor for law, or is it a useful model for explaining the legal system’s behavior?
<<< the first workshop on jursdynamics in the Romanian Parliament
Learning by discoveringa new way to understand Complex Systems
• NEXUS - ProgramBringing Complexity Science in the middle of the students!
• Redefining the teacher – student relationship within a continuous teaching process, specific to the knowledge society;
• Motivating the educational act by:
• stimulating the curiosity and interest for science and technology;• involving schoolchildren and students in effectively solving real problems, of community interest, problems that imply concepts, models and techniques generated by Complexity Science research
A NONFORMAL education for a TRANSDISCIPLINARY approach
The Atlantykron Summer Academyprospective science and futurology
Building a bridge between Science & Art
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The Researchers' Night is an event bringing together the public at large and researchers. It occurs annually on the fourth Friday of September all over Europe. Its main objective is to reveal scientists and science in a relaxed and friendly atmosphere.
Bucharest, Romania
Non-formal education for a knowledge based society
Our philosophy
Academic level Society, market
Open Projects
Doctoral level
University level
Highschool level
Secondary level
Sicence for kidsHobby
Etc…
. themes: define the strategic assets of permanent interest made byCSC.• seeks developers, and / or are currently unfeasible, but may become long term assets.
Center for Complexity Studies
The NEXUS program brings as novelty an ensemble formed by:
NEXUS room - space dedicated and equipped especially for: documentation, courses, multidisciplinary dialogue and consulting, lab experiments (the activity in the room would be organized on groups structured around various subjects chosen from the Open Projects database supplied by CSC especially for the NEXUS-T program)
The complex teaching object (OBC) – hard/soft ensemble that allows experimental, multidisciplinary exploration of the processes and phenomena of interest, according to the topics selected from an Open Project. (OBC was projected in a way that enables creativity stimulation and formation of new abilities: attention, ability to correlate the knowledge gained during the course,
Training programs for teachers – intensive courses (including e-learning) for assimilating concepts and notions necessary for the use of the infrastructure and the software that accompanies an ODC, for completing the curriculum with novelties, especially from the Complexity science, and for correlating the various primary knowledge through an integrating, multidisciplinary approach.
The 2011 Nexus –T program
The tree - a biological sensor for earthquakes predictions
Vreancea zone- a geophysical natural laboratory
Short-term prediction (hours to weeks) was successful in very few cases where precursory phenomena were evidentIntermediate-term prediction (one month to 10 years) is considered fair for well monitored regions.Long-term prediction (10-30 years) is considered good for high slip rate faults but poor for very low slip rate tectonic provinces.
Prediction = Position+ Intensity + Time
The Geodynamic Observatory - CALDARUSANI
A laboratory for the studies of the Quality of a Natural environment by the use of complexity science tools
-Noise can synchronize biochemical reactions
-Synergic behavior of parts can define the quality of the whole system
-Chaotic resonance can play an important role in the biorhythms of living systems (an interesting coupling between living and nonliving systems – the Gaia view)
Artificial Intelligence & Seismic monitoring system
Obs:The energy discharged by each seismic event is radiated/transferred to
neighboring systems of equal or inferior hierarchical position. To understand the evolution of a seismic region it is necessary a
network of complex monitoring system.
The web-page
The schedule
Heart - chaotic oscillatorCommunication by synchronizing chaotic oscillators
First Nexus program in a high school
2002
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