Dallas McPheeters's List: EdTech

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• we are embarking on a shift of a magnitude that boundary-restricted minds are unable to conceive or manage. He calls this next wave of technology to come, Web 3.0. I call its impact on learning "Education 3.0" and technology will drive us there whether we prepare for it or not.

• In the sense that facing uncertainty isn't a stressor as it has been for previous generations. - Dallas McPheeters on 2009-09-03

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• Be who you wish to be!
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• Having zerobaggage means shifting our focus away from the "stuff" or the permanence of items that unnecessarily reside with us or follow us from place to place, toward having what we need when we need it. Zerobaggage is a movement oriented, cyclical way of existing in the world. Your temporary use of circulating items is our core innovation. A movement from buying to borrowing. Ownership is scaled down to what matters most. Lifestyle choices become less anchored, more seamless and most flexible.

• Top 30 Failed Technology Predictions

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• • What assumptions do we hold to be true that may impede our progress today?
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• “There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.”
• “We will never make a 32 bit operating system.” — Bill Gates
• “A rocket will never be able to leave the Earth’s atmosphere.” — New York Times, 1936.
• “Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.” — Lord Kelvin, British mathematician and physicist, president of the British Royal Society, 1895.
• “There will never be a bigger plane built.”
• twin engine plane that holds ten people
• “Nuclear-powered vacuum cleaners will probably be a reality in 10 years.”
• “This is the biggest fool thing we have ever done. The bomb will never go off, and I speak as an expert in explosives.”
• “There is not the slightest indication that nuclear energy will ever be obtainable. It would mean that the atom would have to be shattered at will.” — Albert Einstein, 1932
• “The horse is here to stay but the automobile is only a novelty – a fad.”
• “The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.” — Sir William Preece, Chief Engineer, British Post Office, 1878
• “This ‘telephone’ has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us.” — A memo at Western Union, 1878 (or 1876).
• “The world potential market for copying machines is 5000 at most.” — IBM
• “X-rays will prove to be a hoax.” — Lord Kelvin, President of the Royal Society, 1883.
• 30. “The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to no one in particular?” — Associates of David Sarnoff responding to the latter’s call for investment in the radio in 1921.

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• “The idea that cavalry will be replaced by these iron coaches is absurd. It is little short of treasonous.”
• “How, sir, would you make a ship sail against the wind and currents by lighting a bonfire under her deck? I pray you, excuse me, I have not the time to listen to such nonsense.” — Napoleon Bonaparte
• “Fooling around with alternating current is just a waste of time. Nobody will use it, ever.” — Thomas Edison
• “Home Taping Is Killing Music” — A 1980s campaign by the BPI, claiming that people recording music off the radio onto cassette would destroy the music industry.
• “Television won’t last. It’s a flash in the pan.”
• “[Television] won’t be able to hold on to any market it captures after the first six months. People will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night.”
• “When the Paris Exhibition [of 1878] closes, electric light will close with it and no more will be heard of it.” – Oxford professor Erasmus Wilson
• “Dear Mr. President: The canal system of this country is being threatened by a new form of transportation known as ‘railroads’ … As you may well know, Mr. President, ‘railroad’ carriages are pulled at the enormous speed of 15 miles per hour by ‘engines’ which, in addition to endangering life and limb of passengers, roar and snort their way through the countryside, setting fire to crops, scaring the livestock and frightening women and children. The Almighty certainly never intended that people should travel at such breakneck speed.”
• “Rail travel at high speed is not possible because passengers, unable to breathe, would die of asphyxia.”

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• if Leno doesn't know what TV is, who does?
• Some call this a "post-network" era and are suggesting that it constitutes a change as dramatic as the shift from broadcasting to cable. Yet, actually, television may be in the hands of a different kind of network -- Facebook or Twitter rather than ABC or Fox.
• television may refer to a form of storytelling which comes in short chunks which are organized as part of longer series which unfold across seasons.
• The networks are trying to rethink their programming practices in the context of this unstable and ever expanding media landscape.

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• top 7 skills for successful e-tutors:
  
  
  
  1. They support and encourage learners
  
  
  2. They are not afraid to take risks with new technologies
  
  
  3. They transfer good teaching skills into online contexts
  
  
  4. They are good communicators in any medium
  
  
  5. They are non-conformists
  
  
  6. They thrive in a culture of change
  
  
  7. They see the big picture (the social network)

  • Good overview for edtech specialists.
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