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Digital Technology Learns Faster than Education. Presentation by Deborah Dano. Dr. Randy Nordell - Business 310 class . 25 years . from now we will work with technologies not yet invented. Education. Dead-ucation. Digital Technologies help you learn everything. How do we keep up?.
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Digital Technology Learns Faster than Education Presentation by Deborah Dano Dr. Randy Nordell - Business 310 class
25 years from now we will work with technologies not yet invented
Digital Technologies help you learn everything.
How do we keep up? • New technologies • Coming to education • How they will change education • Recommendations Ted.com – 6th Sense Technology
Problem • Changing technologies challenge us to choose those for education that are: • Long lived • Practical • Updatable
Evaluate how to prepare for updating technology skills. Review new technologies and strategize over the best for education. Suggest use scenarios. Purpose
Assumptions • Recommendations based on these assumptions: • Education’s decisions are guided by budget limits • Technologies evolve past education’s adaptation parameters • Education will offer classes based on future needs of students
Criteria • Technology must satisfy educational criteria: • High user profile in college population • Implemented within budget constraints • Supportable in framework with backwards compatibility • No short term obsolescence • Overlaps other technologies, interchanges with or is substituted by them
Step your game up • Asynchronous live web • User is in control with 100% access • Personalized web experience - the web knows you • Open-Source (programming shared code) • The force of free
Conclusions Traditional class proposal processes may take a year. “Hybrid classes” may be offered immediately. New evaluation methods for future class offerings. Distance live webcast classes and online tutorials Expert resources artificial or personal
Recommendations • Keep abreast of the future organizational models • Open Source ware • Free ware • Mobile content • Virtualization • 24/7 access online
Technology is... • UNESCO, the United Nations Education, Social and Cultural Organization, defines technology as: "...the know-how and creative processes that may assist people to utilize tools, resources and systems to solve problems and to enhance control over the natural and made environment in an endeavor to improve the human condition.”
Technology becomes culture? Accepted ways of acting, feeling and thinking defines culture. Technology is credible in defining what’s acceptable in culture. If we believe technology will solve our problems. Life’s values will be seen through technology. Technology is a tool we created, it didn’t create us however.
from Ted.com Pranav Mistry 6thSense Technology http://thewordgift.blogspot.com/