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Blogs & Wikis
Best PracticesCAIS, MAY 2008
Worldwide ambitions for education
Writing
Paper
Indexes, paragraphs
Printing
Photos, sound, film
Libraries
Published books
Postal services
Bibliographies
Television, phones
Paperbacks
Pamphlets
Interactive computers
Local drives & discs
WIMP interfaces
Internet
Multimedia
Worldwide Web
Laptops
Search engines
Broadband
3G mobiles
Blogs/Wikis
Pace of Change
http://www.slideshare.net/cplp/technology-in-the-service-of-our-educational-ambitions
Our educational discourse is largely stuck in a time warp, framed by issues and standards set decades before the widespread use of the personal computer, the Internet, and free trade agreements.
Stewart & Kagan (2005)
Problems are becoming so complex that they cannot be contained in the mind of one individual - problems are held in a distributed manner across networks, with each node holding a part of the entire puzzle.
George Siemenswww.elearnspace.org/Articles/connectivism.htm
The Changing Educational LandscapeWhat’s the most important technology innovation to impact
teaching and learning in the last 100 years?
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 Bumstead
1841On the benefits of the
chalkboard…