This document discusses the emergence of the "cyborg college student". It notes that: 1. Student development and learning theories were based on human beings alone. 2. Today's students are no longer fully human, as their brains are integrated, rewired, and networked with machines. 3. This means we need to reexamine theories on how students learn and develop, taking into account their part-human, part-machine nature.

1. a PechaKucha by
@PaulGordonBrown
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The Emergence
Cyborg
College Student
of the

2. a PechaKucha by
@PaulGordonBrown
archived at www.paulgordonbrown.com
The Emergence
Cyborg
College Student
of the

3. Inspector
Gadget

7. 1
Student development and
learning theories were based
on human beings.
premise:

8. 2
We are no longer fully human
beings, but our brains are
integrated, rewired and
networked with machines.
premise:

9. We need to reexamine our
theories on how students
learn and develop.

10. integrating
rewiring
networking

11. I want to study
not only what the
computer is doing for us,
but what it is doing to us.
- Sherry Turkle
integrating

15. rewiring
Based on the latest
research in neurobiology
there is no longer any
question that stimulation
of various kinds actually
changes
brain
structures-Marc Prensky

16. “Perhaps you
will through
this instrument
even take to a
new idiom,”

18. us- Michael Wesch
the
machine
is us/ing
networking

21. 1Student development and learning
theories were based on human beings.
We need to reexamine our theories on
how students learn and develop.
2We are no longer fully human beings,
but our brains are integrated, rewired
and networked with machines.

22. a PechaKucha by
@PaulGordonBrown
archived at www.paulgordonbrown.com
The Emergence
Cyborg
College Student
of the