In the year 2000 over 300 million people reported having Internet access' Epper and Bates 2001

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In 2000 over 300 million people reported having
Internet access. The amount of
information available online increased tenfold
between 1997 and 2000 to more than a billion
discrete web pages. Epper and Bates 2001
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The Verdict

• Technology is here to stay!

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According to Kearsley and Lynch (1994), as early
as 1950 many larger school districts, colleges,
and universities began to use some form of
electronic data processing -Kearsley Lynch
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Why such resistance?
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Technological advances, such as the computer, can
decrease necessary skills such as handwriting,
spelling, and mental math.
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Technophile- one who has a love of or enthusiasm
for technology, especially computers and high
technology
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Why are we here?
Not all educators feel that computers are
completely frivolous.
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Geography
Spelling
History
Writing
Reading
Music
Physics
Biology
Social Studies
Health
Geometry
Art
English
Algebra
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computer use creates a disturbance and reduces
the time available for the class. -Epper
Bates, 2001 Students waste valuable time
incorporating visual information into their
multimedia texts. -Lankshear Snyder, 2000
Many children feign doing homework while
playing games, e-mailing one another, cruising
the Web, and circumventing the filtering
software. -Epper Bates, 2001
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Are these concerns in vein?

• A study by Epper and Bates (2001) found that
  adolescents use the Internet to find information
  related to their formal education only when they
  have to complete a project or essay assigned by a
  teacher and when required toresearch, they
  surf the Internet and simply print out the
  information they findoften they do no more
  than print out the information, not even
  bothering to read it first (Epper Bates,
  2001).

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Other Factors

• Teachers leave the field
• Lack of funding
• Hardware
• Network wiring
• Internet fees

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It is the schools responsibility to prepare
students for the world beyond school, and that
technology is central to that world.
-Lankshear Snyder 2000
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Making learning fun!

• Math Joke

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The average 18-year-old will have listened to
thousands of hours of recorded music and viewed
thousands of hours of television by the time he
or she graduates from high school. The average
18-year-old has access to automobile and air
travel. Many will have traveled beyond the
boundaries of their home
community, state, nation, and continent. Through
the network of worldwide telecommunications many
students will have known and interacted with
people in other parts of the world through direct
voice links, computers, and one-way and two-way
video communications. -Prensky (2007)
Education Today and Tomorrow (YouTube)
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Where to draw the line in the curriculum when
teaching morals and safety?
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A Case Study

• linear thought processes that dominate
  educational systems now can actually retard
  learning for brains developed through game and
  web-surfing processes on the computer Prensky
  (2007)

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Teachers New Role

• Consultant/Coach
• helping students to identify, articulate, and
  focus a problem Hird (2000)
• Hands on experiences
• Multicultural education

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Teaching Faculty How to Use Technology. American
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