A PPT condensing an article on "Technology and the Culture of Learning" that discusses the dimensions and ramifications of technological change for schools, teaching, and learning.

1. TECHNOLOGY AND THE CULTURE OF LEARNING Peter Gow Independent Schools Forum November 10, 2004

2. In a survey of technology innovators, “Nobody cites technology as a tool for thinking better” -- Robert Buderi, editor of M.I.T. Technology Review

7. And remember this picture from your viewbook of 1992?

8. Schools that dragged their feet or hoped to wait out the “fad” did so at their peril Although they may have dodged the fatal attraction of an early commitment to a dead-end technology

13. Three Premises How can we begin to analyze the total impact of technology on the landscape of education and the culture of schools?

14. And possibly a fourth: Educators tend to invest their thinking about change with moral value--a good/bad, as opposed to an effective/ineffective, frame of reference

15. PREMISE #1. In spite of our best efforts, technology has succeeded in breaching all barriers between schools and The World. Our little utopias want to control all the inputs, but technology has made this impossible

21. PREMISE #2. By making many tasks much easier, technology has moved us toward taking on more of them We can generate, process, and disseminate ideas swiftly and efficiently, freeing us to think up more work to do

25. PREMISE #3. Technology inevitably carries us along unseen pathways, and its protean nature makes it difficult to predict or control But we are obliged to attend to technology and its development in order to avoid expensive, or even fatal, errors