Presented by Brian Housand http://brianhousand.com at UNCW March 9, 2011

1. Tech Tools for Today’s Teachers: AIG Edition Brian C. Housand, PhD

4. Geek Technology Gifted

7. Every generation of teenagers embraces the freedoms and possibilities wrought by technology in ways that shock the elders.

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15. PianosNOTStereos

17. “Every man should have a built-in automatic crap detector operating inside of him.” -- Ernest Hemingway

21. Critical Consumers Responsible Producers

22. Interest and Rigor Lead To Creative Productivity “We need students to get more deeply interested in things, more involved in them, more engaged in wanting to know, to have projects that they can get excited about and work on over long periods of time, to be stimulated to find things out on their own.”

23. Computers serve best when they allow everything to change.

24. Answering Real World Problemswith Real World Solutions usingReal World Technology

25. The whole process of education should thus be conceived as the process of learning to think through the solution of real problems. -- John Dewey, 1938

26. Joseph Renzulli What Makes A Problem Real?

27. What Makes A Problem Real? *Personal *No Existing Solution *Calling it a problem does not make it a problem. *Change / Contribution

28. What is a REAL Audience?

30. One thing is clear. We don’t have the option of turning away from the future. No one gets to vote on whether technology is going to change our lives. Bill Gates The Road Ahead

32. REAL Technology