Technology, Students & Web 2.0 Tools

1. Technology, Students & Web 2.0 Tools Dean Mulherin

2. Presentation Road Map • Forces of Change • Globalization • Law of Accelerated Returns • The Three A’s • Who Are Our Students? • Natives vs. Immigrants • Some Statistics • Web 2.0 Tools • Google Docs • VoiceThread

3. Forces of Change • Globalization • Law of Accelerated Returns • The Three A’s

4. Thomas Friedman • It is an examination of the influences shaping business and competition in a technology-fueled global environment. • A call to action for all who must stay ahead of these trends in order to remain competitive.

5. Thomas Friedman • Fall of the Berlin Wall • Netscape IPO • Workflow (software) • Open-sourcing • Outsourcing • Offshoring • Supply chaining • Insourcing • In-forming • Steroids • Smart phones • Personal Digital Devices Big deal!!! We said the world was flat 12,000 years ago!

6. Law of Accelerating Returns • An analysis of the history of technology shows that technological change is exponential, contrary to the common-sense "intuitive linear" view. So we won't experience 100 years of progress in the 21st century -- it will be more like 20,000 years of progress (at today's rate). The "returns," such as chip speed and cost-effectiveness, also increase exponentially.

7. Dan Pink • Facts are ubiquitous, nearly free and available at the speed of light. What begins to matter more is the ability to place these facts in context and to deliver them with emotional impact.

8. Dan Pink • Abundance - So now we have time to devote to other more “meaning creating” activities. • Asia - has become a vast pool of cheap labor, that’s where the jobs will continue to go • Automation - machines can do it better and faster than humans. • To compete, students need to develop more of the “conceptual” side of themselves; they need to create.

9. Dan Pink

10. Students, who are they? • They “are used to the instantaneity of hypertext, downloaded music, phones in their pockets, a library on their laptops, beamed conversations and instant messaging. They’ve been networked most or all of their lives.” (Marc Prensky)

11. Marc Prensky • A digital native is a person for whom digital technologies already existed when they were born, and hence has grown up with digital technology such as computers, the Internet, mobile phones and MP3s. • A digital immigrant is an individual who grew up without digital technology and adopted it later.

16. Web 2.0 Tools • What is Web 2.0? • Web applications that facilitate interactive information sharing, interoperability, user-centered design, and collaboration on the World Wide Web • What is Google Docs? • What is VoiceThread?

17. Google Docs

18. Google Docs Interface

19. Google Docs Presentation

20. Web 2.0 Tools • What is VoiceThread? • A VoiceThread is a collaborative, multimedia slide show that holds images, documents, and videos and allows people to navigate pages and leave comments in 5 ways

21. VoiceThread

22. VoiceThread Presentation

23. Sir Ken Robinson

24. Presentation Review • Forces of Change • Globalization • Law of Accelerated Returns • The Three A’s • Who Are Our Students? • Natives vs. Immigrants • Some Statistics • Web 2.0 Tools • Google Docs • VoiceThread

25. Attribution List • Friedman, T. L. (2005). The world is flat : a brief history of the twenty-first century. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. • Kurzweil, R. (2005). The singularity is near : when humans transcend biology. New York: Viking. • Pink, D. H. (2006). A whole new mind : why right-brainers will rule the future. New York: Riverhead Books. • Prensky, M. (2010). Teaching Digital Natives. Crown Press

26. Attribution List • Google Docs in Plain English • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyzAVuEj56s • What is a VoiceThread Anyway? • http://voicethread.com/?#u525613 • Sir Ken Robinson • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iG9CE55wbtY • Kaiser Family Foundation (2010). Generation M: Media in the lives of 8-18 year olds