Remember the Luddites: Asking Critical Questions about Educational Technology

Description: We are in the stone age of the photonics age, and the rate of technology change will only accelerate. Some educators are excited about using technology to transform classrooms, but are all suggested changes appropriate? What philosophy should guide us? A variety of "educational technology myths" will be suggested and discussed.

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Computer Haiku samples are available also.

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Suggested Sources for Further Investigation

A website/book I am presently working on: www.digitaldiscipline.net

Other Books:

Bork, Robert. Slouching Toward Gomorrah.

Healy, Jane. Failure to Connect.

Naisbitt, John. HIGH TECH, high touch.

Negraponte, Nicholas. Being Digital.

Tapscott, Don. Growing Up Digital.

Postman, Neil. Technopoly : The Surrender of Culture to Technology.

Swenson, Richard. Margin: Restoring Emotional, Physical, Financial, & Time Reserves to Overloaded Lives.

Online Sources

This information will be presented twice at the Texas Computer Education Association's Feb 2001 conference in Austin, Texas. If you are interested in having this or other technology staff development presented for your educational organization, please contact Wesley Fryer.

Other TCEA 2001 Workshops / Sessions by Wesley Fryer include:


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