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Growing Up
In the Age of
the pursuit of happiness is at your fingertips
Dr. Brian C. Housand - Delaware Valley College
April 1, 2009

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Techie Educator
Gifted Researcher

There are 31 BILLION searches on Google every month
2.6 billion
Per month in 2006
Who did we ask these questions B.G.?

Years it
took to
reach a
market
audience
of 50
million
38 Years

Years it
took to
reach a
market
audience
of 50
million
13 Years

Years it
took to
reach a
market
audience
of 50
million
4 Years

Years it
took to
reach a
market
audience
of 50
million
3 Years

Years it
took to
reach a
market
audience
of 50
million
2 Years

China 1,334,962,000
India 1,161,290,000
United States 306,114,000
My Space 253,000,000
Indonesia 229,850,000
Brazil 190,929,000
FaceBook 175,000,000

The U.S. Department of Labor estimates that
today’s high school seniors will have 10-14 jobs
By age
38

Motorola's
first
commercial
cell phone
cost $3,995

First commercial text
message was sent in
December of 1992
Today, the number of text
messages sent and received
everyday, exceeds the total
population of the planet.

Presidential
Blackberry

http://cfa.media.mit.edu

It is estimated that a week’s worth
of the New York Times contains
more information that a person
was like to come across in a
th century.
lifetime in the 18

Literacy through the ages

What are
New
Literacies?
(Leu, Kinzer, Coiro, and Cammack, 2004)

IDENTIFY
Important
Questions

LOCATE
Information

CRITICALLY
EVALUATE
Information

SYNTHESIZE
Information

COMMUNICATE
Answers

This is where the REAL
Who said
information is.
what and
when.
This is as far as Your chance to share
most people get. your knowledge.

It is estimated that 4 exabytes
(4.0x10^19) of unique information
will be generated this year.
This is more than the previous
5000 years.

D
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I
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G
V
IMMIGRANTS
I
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T
D
A
E
L
NATIVES

The Internet is
Participatory
Forcing Us To Learn
New Interfaces
Creating New
Channels For Social
Interaction

Learning beyond the
classroom.

Why Do We
Ask Kids To
UNPLUG At
School?

If technology is an event in
your school,
you are doing it wrong.
Josh Allen

WHAT DO YOU THINK?
What role does technology play in your
life?
How is your technology use in school
different that you technology use
outside of school?
What should teachers know about
technology?

http://www.21stcenturyskills.org/

Learning and Innovation Skills
and
21st Creativity
Century
Innovation
Skills
Critical Thinking and
Problem Solving
Learning
Communication and
and
Innovatio
Collaboration
n

Pianos
NOT
Stereos

Computer Technology
“is not a tool;
it is a new material for expression.”
(Maeda, 2001)

In a global digital
economy, the
focus is no longer
on using, it is
creating and
producing.
(Steinkuehler, Black, & Clinton, 2005)

Rather than running the risk of
having our students become
\"walking encyclopedias,\" we
need to teach them how to
think creatively.
(Sternberg, 2006)

Sir Ken
Robinson
We are educating Creativity is as
people out of their important in education
creativity. as literacy.

Knowledge alone is NOT enough.

Critical Responsible
Consumers Producers

The Rise of the Creative Class
50%
45%
40%
35%
30%
25%
20%
15%
10%
5%
0%
1900 1910 1920 1930 1940 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000
Agriculture Working Service Creative
Florida, R. (2002). The rise of the creative class (p. 332). New York, NY: Basic Books.

ASIA
AUTOMATION
ABUNDANCE

Creative Productivity
=
Contributions to Social
Capital
Thanks to the
Internet,
We Are NOT
Alone

+
The Less You Share,
The Less Power You Have.

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

Success is not the
key to happiness.
Happiness is the
key to success.
If you love what
you are doing, you
will be successful.
Albert Schweitzer

\"Many persons have
a wrong idea of what
constitutes true
happiness. It is not
attained through
self-gratification but
through fidelity to a
worthy purpose.”
Helen Keller

Happiness is not
in the mere
possession of
money; it lies in
the joy of
achievement, in
the thrill of
creative effort.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Happiness is that
state of
consciousness
which proceeds
from the
achievement of
one's values.
Ayn Rand

Happiness is when
what you
think, what you
say, and what you
do
are in harmony.
Mohandas K. Gandhi

+ Fluency Flexibility
Originality Elaboration
E. Paul Torrance

Don't be afraid to fall in
love with something and
pursue it with intensity.

FLOW MihalyCsikszentmihalyi
1. Clear goals
2. Concentrating and focusing
3. A loss of the feeling of self-consciousness
4. Distorted sense of time
5. Direct and immediate feedback
6. Balance between ability level and challenge
7. A sense of personal control
8. Intrinsically rewarding
9. Action awareness merging

high
FLOW
Arousal
Anxiety
CHALLENGES
Worry
Control
Apathy Relaxation
Boredom
low high
SKILLS

Know, understand, take
pride
in, practice, develop, expl
oit and enjoy your
greatest strengths.

Learn to free yourself
from the expectations of
others and to walk away
from the games they
impose on you.

Free yourself to play your own game.

Find a
great
teacher or
mentor
who will
help you.

Don't waste energy
trying to be well
rounded.

Do what you love and
can do well.

Learn the skills of
interdependence.

“If you plan on
being anything
less than you are
capable of
being, you will
probably be
unhappy all the
days of your life.”
Abraham Maslow

The illiterate of
the 21st Century
will not be those
who cannot read
or write,
but those who cannot
LEARN, UNLEARN AND
RELEARN.

My general formula
for my students is
\"Follow your
bliss.\"
Find where it is, and
don't be afraid to
follow it.

CONNECT
DISCOVER
INSPIRE

Change Is
Inevitable
Growth Is
An Option
Choose to GROW

tyvm
:-)
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