From So What to Now What

From So What to Now WhatDeveloping an Innovator’s Mindset

Dean Shareski!http://shareski.ca!@shareski

Google Academy TCEA 2015

Austin, TX Feb. 2, 2015

http://shareski.ca

“It still shocks me, the extent to which we continue to dumb down the affordances of the Web and technology for authentic learning in the service of keeping the system grinding no matter what the obstacle.”

Will Richardson

Dermatologist: pimple popper or life saver?

A brief history of miscalculations

Access to all this information is “confusing and harmful <due to the> abundance of _______.”

Access to all this information is “confusing and harmful <due to the> abundance of _______.”

Conrad Gesner on books 1565

books

“______________________destroys memory [and] weakens the mind, relieving it of…work that makes it strong. ______________________ is an inhuman thing.”

“______________________destroys memory [and] weakens the mind, relieving it of…work that makes it strong. ______________________ is an inhuman thing.”

Socrates 500 BC

Reading and writing

Reading and writing

“This __________ has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us."

“This __________ has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us."

Western Union internal memo 1876

telephone

“Students today depend too much upon ink. They don’t know how to use a pen knife to sharpen a pencil. Pen and ink will never replace the pencil.”

“Students today depend too much upon ink. They don’t know how to use a pen knife to sharpen a pencil. Pen and ink will never replace the pencil.”

National Association of Teachers, 1907

"There is no reason anyone would want a ___________ in their home."

"There is no reason anyone would want a ___________ in their home."

Ken Olson, President and founder of Digital Equipment Corp.

1977

computer

“We have to get over ourselves”

NOTICEThe use of cellphones can learning

interrupt

“We have to get over ourselves”

NOTICEThe use of cellphones can learning

enhance

Old habits die hard.

People seem to start in a state of blissful ignorance. They are not aware of what is

going on around them and frankly don’t care.

Blissful !Ignorance

http://www.andybudd.com/archives/2005/10/the_six_stages_of_technological_acceptance/

Denial People have heard about this new

technology, but it’ll never take off and its not something they will ever need to know.


People don’t get why everybody else thinks the technology is interesting and they don’t, so they get angry.

Anger http://www.andybudd.com/archives/2005/10/the_six_stages_of_technological_acceptance/

Finally people come to the conclusion that if enough people think the technology is interesting, they better

start learning about it or risk being left behind.


Acceptance

!The light-bulb goes on and people start to

get why the new technology is so interesting.

Understanding http://www.andybudd.com/archives/2005/10/the_six_stages_of_technological_acceptance/

People get good at the new ways of thinking and actually start getting other people

interested in the technology.

Enthusiasmhttp://www.andybudd.com/archives/2005/10/the_six_stages_of_technological_acceptance/

I’m looking for technologies that make us

more human not less.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/courosa/6625154811/

10 years ago….

So What?

My first comment

Courtesy D’arcy Norman

#wonder #skepticism #play #purpose

#wonder

“Be aware of wonder. Remember the little seed in the Stryrofoam cup: The roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody really knows how or why, but we are all like that.” Everything I Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

“We Have Responsibility to Awe”

#skepticism

"What will a new technology do?" is no more important than the question,

"What will a new technology undo?”

https://www.flickr.com/photos/so8/8161891893

Neil Postman

http://www.themillionairesecrets.net/images/2014/03/george-bernard-shaw-quote.jpg

“What can we do now, we couldn’t do before?”

https://www.flickr.com/photos/91737656@N03/16103317332

"If people did not do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done." - Ludwig Wittgenstein

http://www.flickr.com/photos/courosa/3165154438

http://www.flickr.com/photos/courosa/3165154438

So What?

“...the pattern has been that as children grow up and become more proficient at making sense of the environment in which they live, their world seems to become more stable. Thus, as a child grows and becomes accustomed to the world, the perceived need for play.”

“As we watch the world move to a state of near-constant

change and flux, we believe that connecting play and imagination may be the single most important step in unleashing the new culture of learning.”

“...the pattern has been that as children grow up and become more proficient at making sense of the environment in which they live, their world seems to become more stable. Thus, as a child grows and becomes accustomed to the world, the perceived need for play.”

“Failure is free, high-quality research, offering direct evidence of what works and what doesn’t.

Cheap failure, valuable as it is on its own, is also a key part of a more complex advantage: the exploration

of multiple possibilities.”Clay Shirky

http://blog.kylewebb.ca/2015/01/11/dont-just-consume-things-create-things-hour-of-code-2014/

http://blog.kylewebb.ca/2015/01/11/dont-just-consume-things-create-things-hour-of-code-2014/

“Until that point in the year, I had not seen such a high level of engagement and interest from every student in my classroom. This was differentiation

and engaging learning at it’s best (for me anyways!). Students that have a tough time getting excited

about anything at school were ecstatically sharing their games and apps with classmates.

Collaboration and the desire to share and work with one another quickly emerged as each student learned something “cool” that they needed to share

with everyone, so they could use it.”

So What?

So what?

#purpose

Technology will never replace

teachers.

However, teachers who know how to use technology effectively connect and collaborate together online will replace those who do not.

Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach

What were you making at 15?

Beyond Hello

“What can I do with “these” cellphones?”

Questions or Answers?

#wonder #skepticism #play #purpose

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