https://wiki.ties.k12.mn.us/Chris+Dede
Today's information is to vast and coming at us too fast for anyone to keep up with alone.
Rapid advances in information Technologies
Worries about whether our children are being prepared for the new information environment.
Division of Labor - which jobs are done by machines, which jobs are done by people
2 skills people are better at than machines
1. Expert Decision Making
2. Complex communication
Why teach something you can look up on Google in 15 seconds or less?
Learning Styles
-Sensory-based
-Personality-based
-Attitude-based
-Media-based
It is the media you use today that shapes your learning styles.
Some kids today do not act or learn like "digital natives" because of how they use digital media.
Juggling between digital media devices is not necessarily good or bad but it is characteristic of 21st century work.
Thinking has become distributed.
Cognition is distributed across human minds.
Showed video illustrating how necessary it is to be connected and be fluent with new communication technologies (cell phone, text messaging, IM, videoconferencing, etc).
New literacies are evolving as technology evolves.
The challenge is not to solve the problem but to understand the problem.
Multi-user Virtual Environments and wearable devices are next generation tools.
Most people see Muve's through the lens of video games.
Content in most online games are garbage.
We want to build things that are game-like because we want to harness the engagement of games.
Rivercity.
Fire is a wonderful technology because just by being near it you get a benefit from it.
Computers unfortunately you have to use to benefit from it.
The pedagogy is important.
Situated Learning - powerful in life but classrooms are removed from the real world
-can we have situated learning with muve's?
Ubiquitous Computing
-Augmented Reality
-Today no one really knows how many motors or microprocessors they own.
-Not necessarily good - Minority Report
-We now have the ability to create intelligent objects
-Handheld Augmented Reality - Alien Contact -Aliens landed outside of school and students work in teams to figure out why the aliens are there and what they should do about it. They have to work in teams to connect the information to get a clear picture.
Students are inside some sort of collaborative simulation and are using it to develop some sort of 21st century skill.
Soon cell phones will be capable of doing augmented reality.
Your students are struggling...lets give them something harder.
Neomillennial Learning Styles-Learning based on experience
-Students in the web 2.0 environment like to co-design their learning experience. They like to co-teach.
-They like to work together to construct knowledge
Unlearning is much harder than to learn
Changing adult behavior patterns is emotional - exactly the single biggest challenge in my role as technology curriculum integration specialist
media shape their messages
media shape their participants
infrastructures shape civilization
Solution to dark future is education
We need to avoid a world where an avatar world thrives while the real world rots away.
