T and T Oct. 19, 2011

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Important Idea #10 and 11
Presentation - A15 - Jeff and Mark
William Kurelek's art and views on technology - does he distinguish between the technique and the machine? Some samples: (from the Our World Today) The Dream of Mayor Crombie, This is Our Nemiesis, He Gloats over Our Skepticism. And from the first gallery, The Tower of Babel and The Maas Maze. and from the 3rd section, Cross Section of Vinnitsia in the Ukraine.
Language and Metaphor - Lakoff and Johnson

Language and metaphor

Postman’s Five Ideas
"And so, these are my five ideas about technological change.

• First, that we always pay a price for technology; the greater the technology, the greater the price.
• Second, that there are always winners and losers, and that the winners always try to persuade the losers that they are really winners.
• Third, that there is embedded in every great technology an epistemological, political or social prejudice. Sometimes that bias is greatly to our advantage. Sometimes it is not. The printing press annihilated the oral tradition; telegraphy annihilated space; television has humiliated the word; the computer, perhaps, will degrade community life. And so on.
• Fourth, technological change is not additive; it is ecological, which means, it changes everything and is, therefore, too important to be left entirely in the hands of Bill Gates.
• And fifth, technology tends to become mythic; that is, perceived as part of the natural order of things, and therefore tends to control more of our lives than is good for us.

… In the past, we experienced technological change in the manner of sleep-walkers. Our unspoken slogan has been "technology über alles," and we have been willing to shape our lives to fit the requirements of technology, not the requirements of culture. This is a form of stupidity, especially in an age of vast technological change. We need to proceed with our eyes wide open so that we many use technology rather than be used by it."
More on the brain - Small
Smartboard lessons

Half-way survey of TandT

Survey for A17 
Survey for A15

R/W/L

Do this with a focus on applying mobile technology to a specific topic or lesson
Read 
pockets_of_potential_ExecSum.pdf  
pockets_of_potential_1_.pdf, 
Cellular Learning website 
Social Media policy example One to 
One Computing Compute Scotland - Check the Brain Training area
Listen/Watch
Google Carly Shuler videos or Edutopia 
Learning and Working in the Collaborative Age 
How To Teach Math as a Social Activity 
10 Tips for Personalized Learning Howard Gardner on Digital Youth or http://www.edutopia.org/digital-generation-howard-gardner-video

EduCause

A page of Podcasts - (more university level) check Classroom Engagement or Creating Tools for a Mobile Campus