Untangling
Technology
Brian Housand, PhD
Newbury, MA / August 18-19, 2009
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Gi#ed Technology

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

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

“For the first
>me in history,
our jobs as
educators is to
prepare our
students for a
future that we
can not clearly
describe.”
David Warlick

The U.S. Department of Labor es>mates that
today’s high school seniors will have 10‐14 jobs
By age
38

The U.S. Department of Labor es>mates that
today’s high school seniors will have 10‐14 jobs
By age
38

Why Do We
Ask Kids To
UNPLUG At
School?

Learning beyond the
classroom.

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C

Content
Resources

299,000,000 Searches Per Day

Knowledge alone is NOT enough.

C
reative
Outlets

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

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

Pianos
NOT
Stereos

Critical
Thinking

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This is as far as
most people get.

You do not want to miss this!
This is as far as
most people get.

You do not want to miss this!
Who said
what and
when.
This is as far as
most people get.

You do not want to miss this!
Who said
what and
when.
This is as far as Your chance to share
most people get. your knowledge.

C
ollaboration

The Internet is
Par>cipatory
Forcing Us To Learn
New Interfaces
Crea>ng New
Channels For Social
Interac>on

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 Less You Share,
The Less Power You Have.

C
itizenship

Critical Responsible
Consumers Producers

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

“Media are mere vehicles that deliver
instruc>on but do not influence student
achievement any more than the truck that
delivers our groceries causes changes in our
nutri>on.”
(Clark, 1983)

The illiterate of
the 21st Century
will not be those
who cannot read
or write,
but those who cannot
LEARN, UNLEARN AND
RELEARN.
(Toffler, 1971)

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