Introductory class session for the course ED628, Computer Applications for Educators.

1. ED628: Computer Applications for Educators February 24, 2011 http://www.flickr.com/photos/kenstein/83314170/

2. Map for Class

3. Getting To Know Us

4. Why Technology in Education? http://www.flickr.com/photos/wfryer/268980698

5. A Vision of K-12 Students Today http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_A-ZVCjfWf8

6. To use technology or not to use technology… Sink or Swim? Missing the Boat? Us vs. Them? http://www.flickr.com/photos/24443965@N08/2649932391/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/nationalmaritimemuseum/3837184514/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/taylorhood/59867611/ …should not be the question. http://www.flickr.com/photos/purplemattfish/3141017889/

7. http://www.flickr.com/photos/extraketchup/408727666/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/brianglanz/2383687233/ The Important Questions http://www.flickr.com/photos/darwinbell/3036866674/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/17258892@N05/2588347668/

8. Claude Shannon, a father of Information Science, had to call the differences that move through telephone wires something. He picked “information,” a term that had meant, roughly, something that you hadn’t known, or the content of written tables. Had he called it “data,” or “patterns,” or “differences,” or “Arthur,” we would have skipped right past one of the false continuities:from information to knowledge.

9. We would have had the Age of Patterns, characterized by an abundance of patterns of difference, and we wouldn’t have thought that that has anything much at all to do with knowledge. But, because traditional information had something to do with expanding what we know, we tricked ourselves into thinking that our modern technology is about making us smarter. With an abundance of information, it seems we must be gaining more knowledge.

10. The new age is one of connection. This is less misleading, for it has us looking for its effect on how we connect with one another, how we connect our ideas, and how we connect our connections. And these are, I believe, the right places to be looking. David Weinberger, http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2011/01/13/if-we-had-called-it-the-age-of-patterns-instead-of-the-age-of-information/

11. The Syllabus http://www.flickr.com/photos/davidsilver/4275611246/

12. Any Questions? http://www.flickr.com/photos/drachmann/327122302/

13. TechTime

14. The Course Website http://ed628-2011.grouply.com/

15. Following Educator Blogs http://catandgirl.com/?p=535

16. Keeping Up With RSS http://www.flickr.com/photos/petrilli/524469845/

17. VoiceThread

18. Any Questions? http://www.flickr.com/photos/drachmann/327122302/

19. What To Do Now Join the ED628 Grouply Sign up for a Google account (if necessary) Find and subscribe to an educator blog Sign up for a VoiceThread Account Walk through VoiceThread tutorial(s) Try out VoiceThread http://bit.ly/ed628-1 http://www.flickr.com/photos/rog2bark/3437630552/