The document discusses how technology has advanced rapidly in recent decades. It notes that today's average consumer wears more computing power than existed in the entire world in 1961. Computer power is now 8,000 times less expensive than 30 years ago. The document also discusses how technology has increased the amount of information available, noting that more information has been produced in the last 30 years than the previous 5,000 years. However, it cautions that technology should be used to facilitate learning rather than dominate in the classroom.

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2. Did you know…Today's average consumers wear more computing power on their wrists than existed in the entire world before 1961.

3. Prichett, Price. (1994) The Employee Handbook of New Work Habits for a Radically Changing World:13 Ground Rules for Job Success in the Information Age.And…Computer power is now 8,000 times less expensive than it was 30 years ago.Prichett, Price. (1994) The Employee Handbook of New Work Habits for a Radically Changing World:13 Ground Rules for Job Success in the Information Age.

4. In addition…If we had similar progress in automotive technology, today you could buy a Lexus for about $2. It would travel at the speed of sound, and go about 600 miles on a thimble of gas. Prichett, Price. (1994) The Employee Handbook of New Work Habits for a Radically Changing World:13 Ground Rules for Job Success in the Information Age.

5. Can you believe…There has been more information produced in the last 30 years than during the previous 5000.Prichett, Price. (1994) The Employee Handbook of New Work Habits for a Radically Changing World:13 Ground Rules for Job Success in the Information Age.

6. Amazingly enough…A weekday edition of The New York Times contains more information than the average person was likely to come across in a lifetime during 17th-century England.Prichett, Price. (1994) The Employee Handbook of New Work Habits for a Radically Changing World:13 Ground Rules for Job Success in the Information Age.

7. “A bargain is struck in which technology giveth and technology taketh away. The wise know this well, and are rarely impressed by dramatic technological changes, and never overjoyed.Postman, Neil. (1993) Technopoly.

8. To a man with a pencil, everything looks like a list. To a man with a camera, everything looks like an image.To a teacher with a computer, everything looks like a PowerPoint presentationPostman, Neil. (1993) Technopoly.

9. What we need to consider about the computer has nothing to do with its efficiency as a teaching tool. We need to know in what ways it is altering our conception of learning.Postman, Neil. (1993) Technopoly.

10. The purpose of technology is to facilitate learning, and if a teacher begins with this end in mind technology itself should tend to disappear, not dominate.

11. Myth #1: Putting computers into schools will directly improve learning; more computers will result in greater improvements.

12. Myth #2: There are agreed-upon goals and "best practices" that define how computers should be used in K-12 classrooms.

13. Myth #3: Schools are well equipped with the latest technology, teachers are well trained, and adequate technical and professional support is available.

14. As teachers, the objective of our profession is to facilitate learning.

15. We should view the computer as one of those tools, a weapon in our arsenal or devices.... that we employ with our students to achieve our objectives.

16. Don't think about the technology first. Think about what you want to teach first. Then think about how the technology can enhance what it is you are trying to teach.

17. Part of educating students for the future is equipping them to function within a technology rich environments and to help them overcome any fear, or anxiety they may feel with regard to technology

18. We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces. ~Carl Sagan