Digital Technology Learns Faster than Education

Presentation by Deborah Dano

Dr. Randy Nordell - Business 310 class

25 years from now we will work with technologies

not yet invented

Education

Dead-ucation

Digital Technologies help you learn

everything.

How do we keep

up?

Ted.com – 6th Sense Technology

New technologiesComing to education

How they will change education

Recommendations

Problem

Changing technologies challenge us to choose those for education that are:Long livedPracticalUpdatable

Purpose

• Evaluate how to prepare for updating technology skills.

• Review new technologies and strategize over the best for education.

• Suggest use scenarios.

Assumptions

Recommendations based on these assumptions:

Education’s decisions are guided by budget limits

Technologies evolve past education’s adaptation parameters

Education will offer classes based on future needs of students

Criteria

Technology must satisfy educational criteria:

High user profile in college populationImplemented within budget constraintsSupportable in framework with backwards

compatibilityNo short term obsolescenceOverlaps other technologies, interchanges

with or is substituted by them

So what is out there?

Step your game up

Asynchronous live webUser is in control with 100%

accessPersonalized web experience -

the web knows youOpen-Source (programming

shared code)The force of free

Conclusions

Traditional class proposal processes may take a year.

“Hybrid classes” may be offered immediately.

New evaluation methods for future class offerings.

Distance live webcast classes and online tutorials

Expert resources artificial or personal

Recommendations

Keep abreast of the future organizational models

Open Source ware Free ware Mobile content Virtualization 24/7 access online

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Technology is...

UNESCO, the United Nations Education, Social and Cultural Organization, defines technology as:

"...the know-how and creative processes that may assist people to utilize tools, resources and systems to solve problems and to enhance control over the natural and made environment in an endeavor to improve the human condition.”

Technology becomes culture?

Accepted ways of acting, feeling and thinking defines culture. Technology is credible in defining what’s acceptable in culture.

If we believe technology will solve our problems. Life’s values will be seen through technology.

Technology is a tool we created, it didn’t create us however.

Who we are guides us to create who we become

by what we make

http://thewordgift.blogspot.com/

from Ted.comPranav Mistry6th Sense Technology