1. Assessing Instructional Technology
   1. $10 Million Dollar Study
      1. Comissioned by Congress
      2. Showed that test scores were not significantly higher in Tech Classrooms compared to control group
         1. Responded with caution to Scrutinize.
            1. CoSN
            2. Time
            3. Department of Education
            4. Bad
            5. Bad sampling
            6. Bad Design
            7. Student wasn't designed to track tech benefits
            8. Bad methodology
         2. When Yong reads Study
            1. Study says that tech does as good a job as teachers
            2. Not Worse
            3. Not Better
            4. Schools, fire teachers & buy more software & save money
   2. Two groups of pictures, all are entertainers
      1. Group does well with HD
      2. Other group doesn't do well with HD
         1. "Do you want Don Trump on your HD TV?"
      3. When you have new technology, talent gets redefined
         1. Technology redefines Talents
            1. When you introduce new technology then talent value changes
            2. After staircases
            3. Thos who were enabled
            4. Those whow were disabled
            5. With Written language
            6. Before written language there was not illiteracy
            7. Literate
            8. Illiterate
            9. Book: The Alphabet Vs. The Godess
            10. Written by a carterologist
            11. In every Culture
            12. Worshipped Godess
            13. Alphabet Invented
            14. Culture switches to male gods
            15. The invention of the Alphabet devalued the talents of women
            16. Men are more skilled at abstract...
            17. With the return of multimedia, women will do better
            18. Economy
            19. Not china
            20. Not India
            21. Women will dominate economy
            22. Technology redefines Talents
   3. Real World
      1. Industrial Age
         1. Prior to IA
            1. Schools were teaching Latin & Greek -- the Classics
            2. Difficult to challenge
         2. Herbert Spencer, Philosopher
            1. Asks, what knowledge is important?
            2. For all practical Purposes
            3. Science
            4. People Paid Attention & Curriculum Changed
      2. Information Age
         1. It's about "Being Digital," Nicolas Negropponte
            1. About to work with digital information
            2. Virtual Environments
            3. iAppartment
            4. Rent virtual appartment
            5. Court someone virtually
            6. Get married virtually
            7. Very Compelling
            8. Second Life
            9. Techers should be trying this.
            10. Talks about unemployed English Teacher who becomes the First to make a million dollars in Second Life
            11. Virtual Economy merges with the real economy
            12. Look at Gold farming (Digital Farmers Market)
            13. Today's children are too well taken care of. they have not place to go try things out.
            14. Yong Had the Rice fields.
            15. For today's children it may be video games and virtual worlds
            16. Perhaps social networks as well
      3. What are the new skills, emotional, and cognitive abilities are needed today.
         1. Everyone has the potential to reach an audience
            1. book
            2. blog
            3. video
            4. podcast
         2. What about the Global Part
            1. Marshal McCluen talked about new media in the 1960s
            2. In 2005 Friedman talks about the global aspects
            3. What is Globalization?
            4. Global free flow of goods of stuff...
            5. Global free flow of people...
            6. Global free flow of money...
            7. Where's your retirement money
            8. MacDonaldiszation
            9. MacDonalds forced Japanese to reject chop sticks
            10. Imported obesity
            11. MacDonalds helped Hong Kong people to stand in lines
            12. Our will is effected by a wide range of cultural values
            13. Mini Cooper, british brand, made in Germany from parts from 14 other countries.
            14. How can today's children fit into the global supply-chain?
            15. What Talents should we teach our students
            16. Unique Talents
            17. Huge increase in self-employed
            18. Suggests more agriculture
            19. Global Reach
            20. Conceptual Skills
            21. Channeling Dan Pink
            22. Design
            23. Story
            24. Symphany
            25. Empathy
            26. Play
            27. Meaning
            28. Global Citizens
            29. Unique Talents
            30. Creativity, Imagination, & Passion
            31. Cross-cultural Competencies
            32. Understanding the globe
            33. Foreign Languages
            34. Understanding other cultures
            35. Digital Citizenship
            36. Living in a digital world
            37. Consumers
            38. Citizens
            39. Community Leaders
            40. Making a living in a digital world
            41. Digital Works
            42. Global workers
            43. (re)Creating the digital world
            44. Innovators
            45. Entrepreneurs
            46. Multiple Intellegences
      4. Education is is ignoring this. Spending millions on networks and then blocking access.
         1. NCLB presses math & reading
         2. U.S. reform is taking an opposite direction from Asia
         3. Teacher Jobs
            1. Present Information
            2. Figure out what technology does well & what teachers do well...