Marshal McLuhan said that we shape our tools and then they shape us. This is the imperative for attending to information literacy and technology fluency in education.
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Learning with Emerging Technology
1. Learning with Emerging Technology
Web 2.0 and
Beyond
Gail Matthews-
DeNatale
Northeastern
University
2. Scope and Agenda
Learning across the span of life
What impact does technology have on perception?
What do we mean by learning with technology?
Why is this important? What’s the imperative?
What do we need to understand to do this well?
What does it look like in action?
13. What do we want for our learners?
Intellectual Capabilities
Personal
Interpersonal
Professional
Societal
Concepts
Skills
14. Simmons College Example
Think critically, solve problems, and test
solutions (with and about technology)
Understand and evaluate the opportunities,
threats, limitations, and impact associated with
emerging technologies
To learn, communicate, and collaborate
effectively using technology in many different
settings
15. Fluency Transcends the Curriculum
Technology Media Literacy
• Information Storage
• Semiotics / Linguistics
and Retrieval
• Art / Media Studies
• Systems, Abstraction,
• Communications
and Modeling
• Algorithmic
thinking • Philosophy/Ethics
• Security/ • Cultural Studies
Privacy • Anthropology
•Education
•Sociology
Information Literacy
• Information Science
• Information Architecture
• Intellectual Property
• Online Research
16. What are the gaps?
Only 29% Selected the
Appropriate Site for the
Correct Reasons
17. Critical Thinking Across Media
You are doing background research for a science project.
In addition to perusing library sources, you decide to go online to see what's available.
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Selected Fake Site (incorrect) Selected NSF (correct) Selected NSF for Appropriate Not Sure
Reasons
20. Yet Another Example
One in ten people
believe the world will
come to an end on
12/21/12 (Reuters).
“There are literally
thousands of websites
and YouTube videos
that say the world will
end, and only two or
three say it's a hoax.”
21. Some of them are very clever
about it. They take my
videos that begin with the
NASA logo, chop that off, and
put it at the beginning of
their video with the headline
"NASA confirms the end of
the world."
- David Morrison
22. The Conundrum
In order to be visually literate, we
need to be media literate.
In a cyberculture world that
couples globally-connected social
networking with transmedia,
Source: Visual Literacy, Cyberculture & Education
http://visuallit.wordpress.com
perhaps we need to reconsider
the idea of literacy itself.
31. What the Pundits Say
“These days, if you don’t
have ADD you’re not
paying attention …
‘attention’ is the new
limited resource.”
But “Change is not a
threat — it’s a thing of
wonder.”
Jason Silva
32. Image Credits
Chicken or the Egg http://www.flickr.com/photos/the-wanderers-eye/4494147652
Emerging technology logos downloaded from http://images.google.com
Henry Jenkins http://newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/artwork/5/4/8/2/5/154825/HenryJenkins-USC-IMG_0026-prv.jpg
Howard Rheingold http://www.isepp.org/Media/Speaker%20Images/09-
10%20Images/SpeakerPageGraphics/220pxrheingold_howard.jpg
Whoosh Bottle http://www.flickr.com/photos/fastlizard4/5575889627/in/photostream
Dry Ice Experiment http://www.flickr.com/photos/g_kat26/4004115079
Screenshots of ethnographic maps, digital stories, Middle East maps, and ePortfolio taken by Gail Matthews-DeNatale.
Dry Ice Experiment was digitally altered to simulate the view within a mobile device.
Jason Silva http://b.vimeocdn.com/ps/323/365/3233659_300.jpg