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Who said this

"People who invent new technologiesare not the best judges of theirusefulness and value. Your invention

will not help people to get smarter andlearn more; it will in fact cause theexact opposite they will forget moreand learn less.


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and this?

You have not invented a bettermemory but just a way to search forideas. And the students who use your

invention will not in fact acquire real-world knowledge but rather data. Theywill think they know much when in factthey are incredibly ignorant.


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An ancient king of Egypt, ofcourse

Thamus the king of a city in Egypt according to Socrates 2500 years ago telling the god Theuth

what he thought of Theuthsinvention of writing


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What he actually said Those who acquire it will cease to exercise their

memory and become forgetful; they will rely onwriting to bring things to their remembrance byexternal signs instead of by their own internalresources. What you have discovered is a receiptfor recollection, not for memory. And as forwisdom, your pupils will have the reputation for itwithout the reality: they will receive a quantity ofinformation without proper instruction, and inconsequence be thought very knowledgeablewhen they are for the most part quite ignorant.


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What is intelligence?

In ancient Greece?In medieval times

In the 19th

(and 20th

)centuries?Today?


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1800s Francis Galton measured head size

1900s Alfred Binet:intelligence is not a singlething; it's many


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1993 Gardner: MultipleIntelligencesProblem solving (including the

ability to create new problems:creativity)1. Linguistic2. Logical-mathematical

3. Spatial4. Musical5. Bodily-kinesthetic6. Interpersonal

7. Intrapersonal


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Going to settle onproblem-solving: the

ability to get stuff done.(And dream up new stuff

to do.)


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The web effect?

Nicholas Carr:Is Google Making Us Stupid?

Primarily about the web in general

Immediacy, brevity, distractionsReduces our ability to focus, toconcentrate reduces our capacity fordeep reading


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The Google effect?

But its more than just theweb

Significantly good search &retrieval changes ourorientation to data and

knowledgeWhich may be inimical to

deep learning


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Does Google make us think

Everything has an answer?All answers are knowable

and easily findable?All answers should come

quickly as long as I searchwith the right words?


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In other words

Does Google make us lessdependent on our own

thinking and more willingto be dependent on the

thinking of others?


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A teachers perspective

"Since Google, studentsneed an answer quickly, so

they don't know how to usea glossary or index. Theywant something right away,

and to look back to aprevious paragraph is too

much effort."


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A teachers perspective

"At times it may end upgiving people a real quick

fix to a problem and theymay not be actually forced

to think it through."


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Whats he saying?

Students are seeking quick answersthat others have created receivedwisdom, in other words

Why scan or re-read a text when youcan get a machine to do it for you?

this is a serious challenge to an

education system


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Losing the ability to read

Bruce Friedman: pathologist,educator

Recently confessed that he has

now almost totally lost theability to read and absorb alongish article on the web or inprint."


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Whats going on?

Knowledge aboutvs knowledge how(Bencze and Bowen)

Does Google privilege about?

Media are not neutral

Also nature of the web:

LinksShort

Abundance


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Is it really all that bad?

Perhaps technology and media arehelping us to transcend boundariesin thinking, working, learning by

harnessing "distributed intelligence"(Fischer and Konomi)

Maybe blogs are more important

than formal certificates, andimmersive social games will becomethe textbook (Tuomi)


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And Google does help us

Google can marked improve ourability to get things done andsolve problems one of the keyfactors in intelligence

by helping us quickly find:

the one fact we needthe range of possible options


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Integration is the key?

The key thing is likely the need tointegrate new capabilities with old skills

A teacher I interviewed:

"We're all tempted to take the path ofleast resistance, he said, but we needto be able to use all kinds of resources,including print, and be able to work from

first principles to more complexknowledge.


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Multi-literate

Researchers are talking about"emerging multiliteracies in aconnected, web2.0 world"(Alexander, 2009).Notjustreading anymore but

also reading, stillAnd information consumption synthesis creation skills:

media literacy


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Danger of the OracleEven with media literacy Cant uncritically rely on modern oracles getting the answer for free

Instant search and retrieval is notintelligence; it is fuel for intelligence

That fuel can be utilized and harnessed with21st century skills but not at the cost of

some very basic 20th century skills.


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Just one example

Math skills: without a solid grasp ofmath fundamentals, the higherorders of mathematical thinking are

forever closed to people, regardlessof how many Google searches theydo (Lee, Stansbery, Kubina,

Wannarka, 2005).Deep knowledge is needed to freeup short-term memory slots.


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Synthesis

We need 21st century skills ...without losing 20th century smarts

Without the 21st Century skills, we

will not be able to cope with thenever-ending datastream.

Without the 20th century smarts, we

will not be able to do more thanparrot, and sometimes rearrange,ideas that others thought before us.


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