Technology I n T he Classroom:

TechnologyIn The Classroom:

Why or Why Not?

“What’s wrong with education cannot be fixed with technology.”

--Steve Jobs

Why not?

"Curiously enough, visual stimulation is probably not the main access route to nonverbal reasoning. Body movements, the ability to touch, feel, manipulate, and build sensory awareness of relationships in the physical world, are its main foundations."

--Jane Healy, author of:Endangered Minds:

Why Children Don’t Think and What We Can Do About It

Why not?

“The computer screen flattens information into narrow, sequential data. This kind of material exercises mostly one half of the brain -- the left hemisphere, where primarily sequential thinking occurs. The "right brain" meanwhile gets short shrift -- yet this is the hemisphere that works on different kinds of information simultaneously.It shapes our multi-facetedimpressions, and serves as theengine of creative analysis.

--Jane Healy

Why not?

"Schooling is not about information. It's getting kids to think about information. It's about understanding and knowledge and wisdom."

--Larry Cuban,Professor of Education,

Stanford University

Why not?

“School traditionalists push for broad liberal arts curricula, which they feel develop students' values and intellect, instead of focusing on today's idea about what tomorrow's jobs will be.”

--Todd Oppenheimer,The Computer Delusion

21st Century Media Literacy:1. The ability to fully participate

in the social, cultural, economic and political future of our society

2. The ability to evaluate the quality of information obtained from different sources

3. The ability to participate ethically in media-making and online communities

Why?

Core competencies:

1. Play/Simulation/Performance (Role-play)2. Appropriation3. Multitasking4. Distributed Cognition5. Collective Intelligence/

Networking/Negotiation6. Judgment

Why?

Conclusion:

“Shop [or P.E. or Art or Music or anything else you want to insert here] with a good teacher probably is worth more than computers with a lousy teacher.”

--Esther Dyson,President of

EDventure Holdings