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EDC&I 585 5/11/11. What’d We Talk About Last Week? Organizing Our Discussions for This Week Setting the Stage for Next Week. Last Week We Said…. Lanier Such unsatisfying, inconsequential conclusions! U ncertainty re the “recycling of cultural materials” that Web 2.0 brings
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EDC&I 5855/11/11 What’d We Talk About Last Week? Organizing Our Discussions for This Week Setting the Stage for Next Week
Last Week We Said… • Lanier • Such unsatisfying, inconsequential conclusions! • Uncertainty re the “recycling of cultural materials” that Web 2.0 brings • Is it true we’re having fewer interesting, technology-related breakthroughs? Or are we just not paying attention to the right things?
Misc Misc • “TBA” Readings (or watchings or explorations or …) for 5/25 • Suggestions? • Directions? • Brief brainstorming – share - decide
Questions Kelly (pt. 1) • Do you agree with Kelly’s overall position that the technium is a “self-reinforcing” system with “noticeable measure of autonomy”? • Is education really as hopeless as many commentators make it out to be? Does it show any of Kelly’s qualities of “deep progress”? • Or maybe education today is just a “junky prototype” or “something that barely works”? • If so, what are prospects for technology making it better? • What determines whether an educational innovation “gets to market”? (p. 142)
For next week… • Kelley pt. 2: • What does “embracing the technium” mean for education? • Given what Kelly says about technology and freedom, choice, specialization, diversity, how should schools be arranged and what uses should they make (or not make) of technology?