1. The Tech Trio Buffy Cranford, ChasityPfeifer and Tami Soper Doane College 2010 Can you Think without Technology

2. The tools we used to evaluate the impact of technology upon independent thought included… An online survey of our peers (hosted on Survey Monkey). A blog detailing some of the survey findings and providing comments to solicit opinions from others (hosted on Blogspot.com).

3. 81% of survey respondents indicated they could not perform their jobs without technology. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that 77 percent of American jobs will require technology skills within the next decade.

5. Supervision: transition from a "management by sight" to a "management by objective” model.

6. Legal issues: privacy and protection of intellectual property become more important as technology allows greater access and faster dissemination of information.HR Magazine, Dec, 1997 by Maureen Minehan

7. Has technology impacted our ability to think independently? Apparently, it depends… Some experts argue that critical thinking may be at risk because of the instant access to information. “Most visual media are real-time media that do not allow time for reflection, analysis, or imagination,” says UCLA Professor Patricia Greenfield. Conversely, others like James Paul Gee, a professor of educational psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison assert that a growing number of researchers—and an expanding body of evidence—indicate that joysticks can go a long way toward building smarter children with better reasoning skills. Games such as Sim City, Civilization, and Railroad Tycoon extend beyond rote memorization and teach decision-making and analytical skills in immersive, virtual environments that resemble the real world, Gee says. Samuel Greengard; July 2009 | vol. 52 | no. 7 | communications of the acm