Technology for Important Things: TLt Keynote 2008

Your First Life: Technology and Other Important Things

Richard A. Schwier

Educational Communications and Technology

University of Saskatchewan

Keynote address TLt 2008 May 15, 2008

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Eudaimonia Photocredit: Gerard Girbes Berges (2008)

About who we are as educators

Tell vivid stories

http://cogdogroo.wikispaces.com/StoryTools

Having someone listen is just as important as having something to say Photo: Scott Beale / Laughing Squid laughingsquid.com .

Reconsider learning outcomes and who owns them

How to predict consequences

How to read

How to distinguish truth from fiction

How to empathize

How to be creative

How to communicate clearly

How to learn

How to stay healthy

How to value yourself

How to live meaningfully

-Stephen Downes

Being a big stupid failure is important

Visioning isn’t new-age crap It actually works

Competition isn't always bad, but it lurks in the strangest places

About who we are as people

Play is more important than work

Be selfish and narcissistic

If something keeps depressing you when you look at it and you can't do anything about it, turn your gaze

Text http://www.globalincidentmap.com /

About who we are as Educational Technologists

O BANG

We aren't green, but we can be greenish http://www.storyofstuff.com/ Photo credit: ocean . flynn We aren’t green, but we can be greenish

http://www.storyofstuff.com /

Intentionally break your own patterns of thinking http://www.isuma.tv /

Slow down It’s not a race

From Dag to Denise to me to you To preserve the silence within amid all the noise. To remain open and quiet, a moist humus in the fertile darkness where the rain falls and the grain ripens no matter how many tramp across the parade ground in whirling dust under an arid sky. Dag Hammerskjöld

Find constancy in a sea of change