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Technology and Learning Presentation
Directions For this performance assessment task, you will be creating a presentation using a technology tool of your choice. The presentation should not only be informative but also engaging. Refer to the scoring rubric to ensure you have met all of the requirements. -
You define technology in your own words
I am a Sociologist, and I define technology as cultural tools - all cultural tools. This is in a very narrow / micro perspective; and will include all technology tools from the simple wheel to the technology of cable lines for our distance communication (Tele-Presence), etc. From a broader sense / macro perspective, technology is all of the skills and/or the procedures that are necessary for culture to make and use those tools. -
The 1950s
The 1950s, learning in America is often described as a time of complacency. We had the “Dick and Jane” readers; and the entire United States was (really) just learning with standard books and readers – low technology. This type of technology was soon to become outdated because of how behind and slow it changed. One of the largest learning technologies of the 1950s is the Television (TV). Although the country had the TV since the 1920s, the TV was not mass produced until Zenith did this in 19 -
By contrast, the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s were a time of great change.
President John F. Kennedy ushered in a more activist approach to governing. During his time in office, Kennedy pushed Americans to meet the challenges of the "New Frontier," and the space race. With the challenge of the space race; United States technology skyrocketed. The computer was being used not only by the government, but in some of the more prestige’s colleges and universities; and this is the forerunner to computers in higher education in all areas. -
Education and learning in the 1970s jumped
Education and learning in the 1970s jumped by leaps and bounds, especially with the various new technologies that were coming into existence and used in the classroom. Some of these include the following technologies that were applied to learning. -
Laser Printer
The original laser printer called EARS was developed at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center beginning in 1969 and completed in November, 1971.The Xerox 9700 Electronic Printing System, the first xerographic laser printer product, was released in 1977.In 1938, Chester Carlson invented a dry printing process called electrophotography commonly called a Xerox, the foundation technology for laser printers to come. -
Apple
Apple - The Apple Computer company is founded. It releases the Apple-1, a circuit board for the computer. It did not include a monitor or a keyboard. -
1G
The first network for mobile phones is set up in Japan. It mainly covered the Tokyo metropolitan area. It was created by NNT. -
Compact Disc
The first demonstration of the CD. In Sept of 1978, it played a 150 minute movie. It had a 16-bit resolution. -
Better Computers
A big change in American life during the 1980s came as a result of the computer. Computers were invented forty years earlier. They were large machines and were used only at universities, big companies, and in the military. By the 1980s, computers had become much smaller. Anyone could learn how to use them, even children. Millions of Americans soon had a 'personal' computer in their home. They could use it to read newspaper stories, buy things, do schoolwork, and play games. -
Accessibility
Accessibility - From the 1950s through the 1980s, the early forms of technology were slow coming into the classroom and applied to learning. Culture did not, and could not always embrace the new technology, and many times it took years to catch-up to real application. -
Inequality
Inequality - The inequality in the 1950s and early to mid-1960s limited the new technology that all races could use. The passing of the 1964 Civil Rights Act helped to bring new technologies into the classroom for all American students. Children of all races were given the right to access all new technologies. -
Disability
Disability - In the 1970s, disability rights under Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 were enacted. Section 504 forbids learning institutions (and organizations and employers) from excluding or denying individuals with disabilities an equal opportunity to receive program benefits and services. -
Disibility, cont.....
It defines the rights of individuals with disabilities to participate in, and have access to, program benefits and services. New technologies are placed in the disability learning classrooms and new departments are formed to help the disabled with using new technologies. -
Economic
Economic – New technologies were costly to at first place into the classroom. As these new technologies were developed over time, the initial high cost of these was rapidly reduced to a point where most could be placed into the learning institutions around the country. Students could keep up better with the changes in the workforce when allowed to use the technologies in the classroom. -
Traditional classroom to distance education and in-between
The new technologies allowed the classroom to be broadcast over distance. The “talking head” was the first (I was a talking head in the early years with distance education in the UW Extension). This technology rapidly improved to using the entire classroom and allowing the instructor to move around. Now, we have high definition distance education in the Tele-Presence class. -
Classroom technology - Blended #1 timeline
Hybrid" or "Blended" are names commonly used to describe courses in which some traditional face-to-face "seat time" has been replaced by online learning technology activities. The purpose of a hybrid course is to take advantage of the best features of both face-to-face and online technologies learning. -
Blended, cont, #2 timeline
A hybrid course is designed to integrate face-to-face and online activities so that they reinforce, complement, and elaborate one another, instead of treating the online technology component as an add-on or duplicate of what is taught in the classroom.