INFLUENCE OF TECHNOLOGY IN TEACHING

EDUCATION

Communication EvolutionBecause we text, our students have learned a dialect that we don't always understand.

Kids communicate in many different modalities as a result of technology. Maybe it’s 2M2H (too much to handle) for some adults :-)

Expanding AudienceStudents' sense of audience is completely different. When I was in high school in the 1980s, the

audience was the teacher. When I started teaching high school in 1988, the audience was the teacher and peers. In the 21st century, it's the WORLD. Blogging, Twitter, Facebook, and other

online platforms changed our notion of audience.

Poster Boards: A Thing of the PastDo you remember the history or science fair presentation boards that we

created? Web 2.0 tools like Glogster have changed this experience. Glogsteris a platform where students can create a multimedia "glog" or poster to

demonstrate what they know and understand about a topic.

Bye Bye to 3-Ring BindersThere's no need to carry around a bulky three binder anymore. A

computer, tablet computer can keep all of those files and handouts in neat folders. There's also a web 2.0

tool, LiveBinders that allows users to create a binder online.

Interactive TextbooksThe way that we think of textbooks is completely changing. It is no longer limited to merely text and pictures. Today’s textbooks

often have web-based sites that include assessments, animations, additional materials, videos, and other materials to

support the learning of new content.

eBooks on the RiseSpeaking of textbooks, ebooks are becoming more prevalent in

schools with the advancements of e-readers and tablet computers. I think in the near future that students won’t carry

around big bulky backpacks filled with heavy textbooks.

No More Note PassingI’m not sure if this is directly connected to learning, but we don’t pass notes in class anymore. Students text one another instead.

It's just another funny way how technology has changed education.

Disappearance of the Chalk BoardMuch attention has been placed on interactive gaming as a powerful platform for student learning. Every day, new programs and web-based tools are teaching our

students content that was once paper or chalkboard based.

Assistive Tech for Better CommunicationVoice recognition software has improved greatly in the past few

years and is more accessible. Children with special needs and limited English proficiency are able to more effective

communicate in language based contexts.

The iPad: A Game ChangeriPads are such adaptable and powerful tools for teaching and learning. There are so many applications but I think the most powerful and exciting aspect is the enhancement of learning

experiences for students with special needs, particularly those on the autism spectrum.

Extended Classroom CommunitiesTechnology facilitates our ability to extend classroom community

by using web-based platforms like Edmodo. Teachers and students can use this platform to discuss homework, post

assignments, and interact with peers as they work on projects.

Rise of Web-Based ResearchWe still use libraries, but so much of our research and learning is now more web-based. What used to take hours in the library to

find, we find instantaneously. As a result, we need to sort through huge amounts of information efficiently. We know how to get and use information. I would argue that because it takes less time to find information, we spend more time digesting,

thinking, and learning about new information.

Meeting the Needs of All LearnersAs educators, we know the power of Howard Gardner’s Theory of Multiple

Intelligences. Technology facilitates our ability to meet the needs of all kinds of learners.

THE FUTURE SHOCKOF ALVIN TOFFLER

The accelerating changes they predicted included the "electronic frontier" of the Internet, Prozac, YouTube, cloning, home-schooling, the self-induced paralysis of too many choices, instant celebrities "swiftly fabricated and ruthlessly destroyed," and the end of blue-collar "second-wave" manufacturing, to be replaced by a "third wave" of knowledge workers.

Their misses included such classic Jetsonian tropes as underwater cities, handing teenagers the keys to the family spaceship, and the doubling of the planet’s population in just 11 years.

And don’t ask Heidi Toffler about the paper clothes we’d use once and throwaway like Kleenex. "I was wrong," she said matter-of-factly at the book’s anniversary conference on Thursday. "But I was trying to make a larger point about a "throw-away society." How many plastic water bottles did we throw away last year?"

Perhaps it says something about the Tofflers’ reputation that while their contemporary Marshall McLuhan was adopted as the "patron saint" of early Wired,, the Toffler’s most ardent admirer among the digerati was AOL founder Steve Case, who read The Third Wave while in college and was captivated by the notion of the "electronic frontier.""Back then, nobody had PCs, and everything we take for granted wasn’t there," Case told me at a dinner for the Tofflers Wednesday night, "but I remember reading it and thinking it was inevitable, and that really inspired me to start what became AOL five years later" in 1985. "There’s no question that was a seminal moment for me."

. "A few things that Toffler got right in 1970 that are still spot on today," he said Thursday, "include the transience of our relationships with each other and with things, the prediction that people would become as comfortable with virtual and interactive environments as with real life, the genesis of cyborgs and artificial intelligence, the over-stimulation of children, the rise of ad-hocery — a term he coined — in business and horizontal rather than vertical corporate structures, and the prominence of super-empowered individuals.

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One reason the Tofflers seem stuck in the past is that we have yet to take all of their recommendations. "It really upsets me that people say we have to bring manufacturing back," Heidi said. "We have to re-train people how to think! We can’t compete with second-wave manufacturing, and China is starting to realize it, too.Future Shock is about the process of change, and The Third Wave is about the structures of change. And so far we’ve proven incapable of designing the systems that prepare us for change."

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