EDC&I 585 5/4/11 What’d We Talk About Last Week? Organizing Our Discussions for This Week Setting the Stage for Next Week

Last Week We Said… Cuban: – Tech progress depends on context; the Luddites and the over-eager – Will future drive to adopt come from students? – What forces push for learning (not just hardware)? – Cf. to 2001: pervasive computing & social networking – Pace of tech development = faster than ed’s uptake – How do new teachers learn to use it effectively if they don’t see it used? Will parents demand use?

And that Lanier guy… Lanier: – Maybe the noosphere is not necessarily worse than earlier ways of shaping, controlling, directing information – Maybe the trends identified are in fact rehumanizing, not dehumanizing

Questions Lanier (pt. 2) Retropolis in education: Education has both conserving and revolutionary functions; are current technology uses supporting one of these more than the other? Flatness: What are the educational parallels to “flatness”? Bachelardian neoteny: Do current models for ed tech promote the approach that Lanier favors?

Misc Project check-in – Everything going OK? If not, shout out! “TBA” Readings for 5/25: Suggestions? Directions?

For next week… Kelley: – How and when should be anthropomorphize stuff that’s not human? – Do current technologies represent radical departures from or only improvements on prior technologies? Does the pattern hold for education? – What determines whether an educational innovation “gets to market?”