Influence of technology in teaching, future shock, and parents 30 years ago

1. INFLUENCE OF
TECHNOLOGY IN TEACHING
EDUCATION

2. Communication Evolution
Because we text, our students have learned a dialect that we don't always understand.
Kids communicate in many different modalities as a result of technology. Maybe it’s
2M2H (too much to handle) for some adults :-)

3. Expanding Audience
Students' sense of audience is completely different. When I was in high school in the 1980s, the
audience was the teacher. When I started teaching high school in 1988, the audience was the
teacher and peers. In the 21st century, it's the WORLD. Blogging, Twitter, Facebook, and other
online platforms changed our notion of audience.

4. Poster Boards: A Thing of the Past
Do you remember the history or science fair presentation boards that we
created? Web 2.0 tools like Glogster have changed this experience. Glogster
is a platform where students can create a multimedia "glog" or poster to
demonstrate what they know and understand about a topic.

5. Bye Bye to 3-Ring Binders
There's no need to carry around a bulky three binder anymore. A
computer, tablet computer can keep all of those files and
handouts in neat folders. There's also a web 2.0
tool, LiveBinders that allows users to create a binder online.

6. Interactive Textbooks
The way that we think of textbooks is completely changing. It is
no longer limited to merely text and pictures. Today’s textbooks
often have web-based sites that include assessments,
animations, additional materials, videos, and other materials to
support the learning of new content.

7. eBooks on the Rise
Speaking of textbooks, ebooks are becoming more prevalent in
schools with the advancements of e-readers and tablet
computers. I think in the near future that students won’t carry
around big bulky backpacks filled with heavy textbooks.

8. No More Note Passing
I’m not sure if this is directly connected to learning, but we don’t
pass notes in class anymore. Students text one another instead.
It's just another funny way how technology has changed
education.

9. Disappearance of the Chalk Board
Much attention has been placed on interactive gaming as a powerful platform for
student learning. Every day, new programs and web-based tools are teaching our
students content that was once paper or chalkboard based.

10. Assistive Tech for Better Communication
Voice recognition software has improved greatly in the past few
years and is more accessible. Children with special needs and
limited English proficiency are able to more effective
communicate in language based contexts.

11. The iPad: A Game Changer
iPads are such adaptable and powerful tools for teaching and
learning. There are so many applications but I think the most
powerful and exciting aspect is the enhancement of learning
experiences for students with special needs, particularly those
on the autism spectrum.

12. Extended Classroom Communities
Technology facilitates our ability to extend classroom community
by using web-based platforms like Edmodo. Teachers and
students can use this platform to discuss homework, post
assignments, and interact with peers as they work on projects.

13. Rise of Web-Based Research
We still use libraries, but so much of our research and learning is
now more web-based. What used to take hours in the library to
find, we find instantaneously. As a result, we need to sort
through huge amounts of information efficiently. We know how
to get and use information. I would argue that because it takes
less time to find information, we spend more time digesting,
thinking, and learning about new information.

14. Meeting the Needs of All Learners
As educators, we know the power of Howard Gardner’s Theory of Multiple
Intelligences. Technology facilitates our ability to meet the needs of all kinds
of learners.

15. THE FUTURE SHOCK
OF ALVIN TOFFLER

19. The accelerating changes
they predicted included the
"electronic frontier" of the
Internet, Prozac, YouTube,
cloning, home-schooling, the
self-induced paralysis of too
many choices, instant
celebrities "swiftly fabricated
and ruthlessly destroyed,"
and the end of blue-collar
"second-wave"
manufacturing, to be
replaced by a "third wave" of
knowledge workers.

20. Their misses included such classic
Jetsonian tropes as underwater cities,
handing teenagers the keys to the family
spaceship, and the doubling of the
planet’s population in just 11 years.

21. And don’t ask Heidi Toffler about the paper
clothes we’d use once and throwaway like
Kleenex. "I was wrong," she said matter-of-factly
at the book’s anniversary conference on
Thursday. "But I was trying to make a larger point
about a "throw-away society." How many plastic
water bottles did we throw away last year?"

23. Perhaps it says something about the Tofflers’ reputation that while their
contemporary Marshall McLuhan was adopted as the "patron saint" of
early Wired,, the Toffler’s most ardent admirer among the digerati was AOL
founder Steve Case, who read The Third Wave while in college and was
captivated by the notion of the "electronic frontier."
"Back then, nobody had PCs, and everything we take for granted wasn’t
there," Case told me at a dinner for the Tofflers Wednesday night, "but I
remember reading it and thinking it was inevitable, and that really inspired
me to start what became AOL five years later" in 1985. "There’s no
question that was a seminal moment for me."

24. . "A few things that Toffler got
right in 1970 that are still spot
on today," he said Thursday,
"include the transience of our
relationships with each other
and with things, the prediction
that people would become as
comfortable with virtual and
interactive environments as
with real life, the genesis of
cyborgs and artificial
intelligence, the over-
stimulation of children, the
rise of ad-hocery — a term he
coined — in business and
horizontal rather than vertical
corporate structures, and the
prominence of super-
empowered individuals.

25. .

26. One reason the Tofflers seem stuck in the past is that we have yet to take all of their
recommendations. "It really upsets me that people say we have to bring manufacturing
back," Heidi said. "We have to re-train people how to think! We can’t compete with
second-wave manufacturing, and China is starting to realize it, too.Future Shock is about
the process of change, and The Third Wave is about the structures of change. And so far
we’ve proven incapable of designing the systems that prepare us for change."

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