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