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Why Technology? by Ben Grey
Something has been happening lately in education, and the implications are a bit unsettling. People are beginning to ask a cogent question, but I fear it's being framed for the wrong reason. I'm hearing more and more important decision makers asking, "Why are we using technology?"
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Add Sticky NoteWhere is the increase in student achievement?
- This is an excellent question! - on 2009-06-03
Week 13
Renny Gleeson breaks down our always-on social world -- where the experience we're having right now is less interesting than what we'll tweet about it later.
"Let's make technologies that make people more human, and not less."
Some blogs explored in the course, including mine.
http://www.indianexpress.com/story_print.php?storyid=416687
The Human Resource Development Ministry is in the final stages of bringing out a $10- $20 low power device to take the laptop right into the villages and into the hands of practically every student across the country.
The Schools We Need Presentation at Ignite Philly 2 - Uploaded by tdlifestyle
Chris Lehmann is brilliant in this video!
It’s Not About the Technology :: I was thinking… - Learning to be me.
computers can support learners, open doors to a world of possibilities and learning opportunities and global thinking. They can provide a chance for every child to learn their own way and construct their own knowledge. They can facilitate conversations with other people and other children around the world. They can knock down the isolation of a classroom’s four walls and invite in the voices, experience and passion of the entire planet.
Open Thinking & Digital Pedagogy » Letting Go
we’ve reached the point in our (disparate) cultural adaptation to computing and communication technology that the younger technical generations are so empowered they are impatient and ready to jettison institutions most of the rest of us tend to think of as essential, central, even immortal. They are ready to dump our schools.
- There is a technology war coming. Actually it is already here but most of us haven’t yet notice. It is a war not about technology but because of technology, a war over how we as a culture embrace technology. It is a war that threatens venerable institutions and, to a certain extent, threatens what many people think of as their very way of life. - datruss on 2008-03-30
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we’ve reached the point in our (disparate) cultural adaptation to computing and communication technology that the younger technical generations are so empowered they are impatient and ready to jettison institutions most of the rest of us tend to think of as essential, central, even immortal. They are ready to dump our schools.
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It is about honesty. It is about being truthful to our students about the flaws of our educational system. It is essential that we open a dialogue with our children to help them design their educational processes. Together we can do more than simply patch the existing system, and we need to do it soon.
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A Computer Lab That Students Use but Never See - Chronicle.com
- now the programs run on powerful computer servers behind the scenes, instead of on desktop PC's. And this lab never closes. - datruss on 2008-05-31
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Unlike in physical labs, professors can install anything they want in the virtual laboratory.
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injenuity » Teaching and Learning With Twitter 2008
Here are my early thoughts on the learning,
[Worth reading again!]
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Here are my early thoughts on the learning,
Open Thinking & Digital Pedagogy » Busy Time Rants
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I LOVE this quote:
Let us forget the term “technical support” and focus on “innovation support”.
- datruss on 2008-05-22
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Let us forget the term “technical support” and focus on “innovation support”.
Statement of Educational Philosophy | David Truss :: Pair-a-dimes for Your Thoughts
- The goal of education is to enrich the lives of students while producing articulate, expressive thinkers and lifelong learners, that are socially responsible, resilient, and active citizens of the world. - datruss on 2008-05-15
School 2.0h no, not yet… | David Truss :: Pair-a-dimes for Your Thoughts
- On the topic of changing schools, I think I have reached some resolve around the idea that schools will never be caught up, or up to date, with the technological needs they require. That said, and accepted, I think that we have great potential to do some really creative and innovative things with the money we do have to spend. - datruss on 2008-05-15
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“I think the school of the future should be centered around the library, and include not only great places to read but also inviting places to collaborate and work together, sort of like a Starbucks atmosphere. I think the library should have a design and performance studio, which would permit students to craft high quality media products for the global stage: the web. I think an educational learning portal should serve as a primary learning centerpiece. One of the big things we need to do as school 2.0 educators is redefine our identities as teachers: It’s ridiculous for us to attempt to be experts on all the content subjects we teach. We really need to embrace the model of facilitating project-based learning, so the physical structures of school should support that pedagogical framework.”
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On the topic of changing schools, I think I have reached some resolve around the idea that schools will never be caught up, or up to date, with the technological needs they require. That said, and accepted, I think that we have great potential to do some really creative and innovative things with the money we do have to spend.
The New Face of Learning: The Internet Breaks School Walls Down | Edutopia
- I can say without hesitation that all my traditional educational experiences combined, everything from grade school to grad school, have not taught me as much about learning and being a learner as blogging has. My ability to easily consume other people's ideas, share my own in return, and communicate with other educators around the world has led me to dozens of smart, passionate teachers from whom I learn every day. It's also led me to technologies and techniques that leverage this newfound network in ways that look nothing like what's happening in traditional classrooms. - datruss on 2008-05-15
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I can say without hesitation that all my traditional educational experiences combined, everything from grade school to grad school, have not taught me as much about learning and being a learner as blogging has. My ability to easily consume other people's ideas, share my own in return, and communicate with other educators around the world has led me to dozens of smart, passionate teachers from whom I learn every day. It's also led me to technologies and techniques that leverage this newfound network in ways that look nothing like what's happening in traditional classrooms.
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In many schools and even states, it's been, rather, a movement to block and bust: no blogs, no cell phones, no IM. We take away the powerful social technologies our kids are already using to learn and, in doing so, tell them their own tools are irrelevant. Or, instead of using the complex and challenging phenomenon of a site such as Wikipedia to teach the realities of navigating information in this new world, we prohibit its use. In fact, at this writing, the U.S. legislature is in the process of deciding whether schools and libraries should have access to any of the potential of the Read/Write Web at all. When you read this, blogs and wikis and podcasts (and much more) may be things that students (and teachers) can access and create only from off-campus.
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Mobile phones in the classroom…. again - Teach42
- So off the top of my head, I decided to rattle off a few things that cell phones could be good for. - datruss on 2008-05-10
Adopt and Adapt
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First, it helps to look at the typical process of technology adoption
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It's typically a four-step process:
1. Dabbling.
2. Doing old things in old ways.
3. Doing old things in new ways.
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Technology Integration Matrix
Considers:
Levels of Technology Integration into the Curriculum
-compared to-
Characteristics of the Learning Environment.
The digital native, the digital naive, and the digital divide. | Pair-a-dimes for Your Thoughts
I haven’t written too many quotable quotes in my day… but I like this one:
I come from the Batman era, adding items to my utility belt while students today are the Borg from Star Trek, assimilating technology into their lives.
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