All flash & no bang - abusing technology in pedagogy
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All flash & no bang?abusing technology in pedagogy
Mathias Klang@klang67
“The inventor of the system deserves to be ranked among the best contributors to learning and science, if not the greatest benefactors of mankind”
Josiah F. Bumstead
Digitalization Internet WWW Fixed cost connections Storage Costs web2.0 Devices Social Media
91 % Access to the Internet at home83 % Access to broadband at home7 % Never used a computer
Source: Sweden Statistics 2011 (*Individuals aged 16-74)
Everything is miscellaneous
When was this?
1995 was 18 years ago – our students…
Blog
ger 1
999
Goo
gle
1999
Normalizing the abnormal
“My fear is that these technologies are infantilising the brain into the state of small children who are attracted by buzzing noises and bright lights, who have a small attention span and who live for the moment.”
Prof. Susan Greenfield
Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing.
Information: from scarcity to abundance
The problem with Wikipedia?
Donald Rumsfeld (2002)
The message is that there are no “knowns.” There are things we know that we know. There are known
unknowns. That is to say there are things that we now
know we don’t know. But there are also unknown
unknowns. There are things we do not know we don’t
know.
Death by powerpoint
Bullets
Information overkill
Ted Talks
We believe passionately in the power of ideas to change attitudes, lives and ultimately, the world. So we're building here a clearinghouse that offers free knowledge and inspiration from the world's most inspired thinkers, and also a community of curious souls to engage with ideas and each other.
Rob Reid: The $8 billion iPod
"monstrosity that turns scientists and thinkers into low-level entertainers, like circus performers."
Nassim Taleb
Pecha kucha 20x20
Sustainability
Accessibility
Changes
Thank you.
Mathias Klang [email protected] or @klang67
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