Technology
In The Classroom:
Why or Why Not?
Why not?
“What’s wrong with
education cannot be
fixed with technology.”
--Steve Jobs
Why not?
"Curiously enough, visual stimulation is
probably not the main access route to
nonverbal reasoning. Body movements,
the ability to touch, feel, manipulate, and
build sensory awareness of relationships
in the physical world, are its main
foundations."
--Jane Healy, author of:
Endangered Minds:
Why Children Don’t Think and
What We Can Do About It
Why not?
“The computer screen flattens information into
narrow, sequential data. This kind of material
exercises mostly one half of the brain -- the left
hemisphere, where primarily sequential thinking
occurs. The "right brain" meanwhile gets short
shrift -- yet this is the hemisphere that works on
different kinds of information simultaneously.
It shapes our multi-faceted
impressions, and serves as the
engine of creative analysis.
--Jane Healy
Why not?
"Schooling is not about information.
It's getting kids to think about
information. It's about understanding
and knowledge and wisdom."
--Larry Cuban,
Professor of Education,
Stanford University
“School traditionalists push for broad
liberal arts curricula, which they feel
develop students' values and intellect,
instead of focusing on today's idea
about what tomorrow's jobs will be.”
--Todd Oppenheimer,
The Computer Delusion
Why?
21st Century Media Literacy:
1. The ability to fully participate
in the social, cultural,
economic and political future
of our society
2. The ability to evaluate the
quality of information
obtained from different
sources
3. The ability to participate
ethically in media-making
and online communities
Why?
Core competencies:
1.
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3.
4.
5.
Play/Simulation/Performance (Role-play)
Appropriation
Multitasking
Distributed Cognition
Collective Intelligence/
Networking/Negotiation
6. Judgment
Conclusion:
“Shop [or P.E. or Art or Music or
anything else you want to insert here]
with a good teacher probably is worth
more than computers with a lousy
teacher.”
--Esther Dyson,
President of
EDventure Holdings