All flash & no bang?abusing technology in pedagogy

Mathias Klang@klang67

“The inventor of the system deserves to be ranked among the best contributors to learning and science, if not the greatest benefactors of mankind”

Josiah F. Bumstead

Digitalization Internet WWW Fixed cost connections Storage Costs web2.0 Devices Social Media

91 % Access to the Internet at home83 % Access to broadband at home7 % Never used a computer

Source: Sweden Statistics 2011 (*Individuals aged 16-74)

Everything is miscellaneous

When was this?

1995 was 18 years ago – our students…

Blog

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999

Goo

gle

1999

Normalizing the abnormal

“My fear is that these technologies are infantilising the brain into the state of small children who are attracted by buzzing noises and bright lights, who have a small attention span and who live for the moment.”

Prof. Susan Greenfield

Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing.

Information: from scarcity to abundance

The problem with Wikipedia?

Donald Rumsfeld (2002)

The message is that there are no “knowns.” There are things we know that we know. There are known

unknowns. That is to say there are things that we now

know we don’t know. But there are also unknown

unknowns. There are things we do not know we don’t

know.

Death by powerpoint

Bullets

Information overkill

Ted Talks

We believe passionately in the power of ideas to change attitudes, lives and ultimately, the world. So we're building here a clearinghouse that offers free knowledge and inspiration from the world's most inspired thinkers, and also a community of curious souls to engage with ideas and each other.

Rob Reid: The $8 billion iPod

"monstrosity that turns scientists and thinkers into low-level entertainers, like circus performers."

Nassim Taleb

Pecha kucha 20x20

Sustainability

Accessibility

Changes

Thank you.

Mathias Klang klang@ituniv.se or @klang67

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