Educational Technology and Society

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Educational Technology and Society
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Mark Twain

• Soap and education are not as sudden as a
  massacre, but they are more deadly in the long
  run.
• Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a
  college education.

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Henry Adams

• Nothing in education is so astonishing as the
  amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of
  inert facts.

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Edna St. Vincent Millay

• Upon this gifted age, in its dark hour,
• Rains from the sky a meteoric shower
• Of facts...they lie unquestioned,
• uncombined
• Wisdom enough to leech us of our ill
• Is daily spun but there exists no loom
• To weave it into fabric...

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Knowledge-Value Revolution

• Fundamental paradigm shift
• Craft age workers owns means of production
• Petroleum age workers separated from means of
  production

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Knowledge-Value Revolution

• Knowledge-value age workers are the means of
  production (intellectual capacity and creative
  talent)
• Lifelong learning for survival (Taichi Sakaiya)

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An Educated Citizen (B.C. Royal Commission)

• Thoughtful
• Able to learn
• Able to think critically
• Communicates from broad knowledge base
• Creative, flexible, self-motivated

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An Educated Citizen (B.C. Royal Commission)

• Positive self image
• Capable of making independent decisions
• Skilled, and can contribute to society generally
  and to the world of work
• Productive
• Cooperative, principled

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Robert Maynard Hutchins

• My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of
  the young and inflame their intelects.

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Principles of Learning

• Learning requires the active participation of
  learners
• Learning requires effort and investment
• People learn in a variety of ways and at
  different rates
• Learning is an individual and social process

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Instructional Design

• Learning is a process of knowledge construction
• Learning is context specific
• Learning is knowledge dependent

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What Business Wants

• Communication skills
• Interpersonal skills
• Self motivation
• Leadership skills
• Writing skills

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What Business Wants

• Oral communication
• Organizational skills
• Management skills
• Ability to work in teams
• Enthusiasm and energy

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School work

• Individual
• Pure/abstract
• Symbolic
• Generalize/transfer

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Real work

• Shared
• Emphasizes tool manipulation
• Practical reasoning
• Situational competencies

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Some Mental Locks

• Real teaching is
• Group teaching
• Funding defines agenda for instruction
• Physical attendance
• Common place and time
• Too busy to change
• Curriculum courses

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Educational response

• The profession of education is the only
  profession to which you are socialized from the
  age of five. (Elliott Eisner)
• The best way to predict the future is to invent
  it. (Alan Kay)