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Warm-up "Schools are widely failing in their responsibility to teach students about digital technologies. They substitute computer use and online experience for a many-sided, socially and psychologically aware understanding of the technology." Steve Talbott (2007). Devices of the Soul, p. 136.
Integrating Technology Into the Curriculum Session 2: Technology and the self, technology and society, technology and education
Agenda Centering exercise Announcements / check-in Presentations Technology and the Self Technology and society Technology and education Break Technology hands-on
Technology and the self Marshall McLuhan: “All media are extensions of some human faculty – psychic or social.” The Medium is the Massage (1968) “Any extension, whether of skin, hand, or foot, affects the whole psychic and social complex.” Understanding Media (1964)
Technology and consciousness We experience the world through our media / technology The world begins to look like our technology Or, our technology begins to look like our consciousness, and so becomes the world.
Technology and society "At a certain stage of their development, the material productive forces of society come into conflict with … the property relations within which they have been at work hitherto. From forms of development of the forces of production these relations turn into their fetters. Then begins an epoch of social revolution. With the change of the economic foundation the entire immense superstructure is more or less rapidly transformed.“ Karl Marx (1859)
The Digital Revolution Moore’s Law The Digital Advantage Stages of development Adjusting the boundaries of the possible
Ambiguous quote “Only those who lived before the revolution know how sweet life can be.” - Talleyrand
The Laws of Media Every medium: Extends (Enhances) Overloads (Reverses) Retrieves Obsolesces McLuhan's Laws of Media
Educational Technology Tetrads Enhances Reverses Retrieves Obsolesces Your group will be assigned an educational technology. On the white board, make a square and divide it into four quadrants. For your technology, fill in each quadrant using McLuhan’s “4 Laws” model.
Break! Ten minutes please…
Technology hands-on • Diigo revisited • Wiki features • Webquests • Tasks: • Install Diigo toolbar • Add at least one resource to your Diigo library • Explore webquests available on the Internet • Think about what you might like to do for your webquest.