I agree technology is moving fast and is changing the way we view the World. It is increasingly becoming important to move with the fast technology, afterall we are all living in the modern 21st century. Before becoming a lecturer, I have never ever thought that technology is also affecting education. I work in the medical field, and I often see we are constantly moving towards the best technology gadgets out there to treat patients. I am now trying to catch up using advanced technology in my teaching! It is confusing, alot to take in, but it is very challenging and exciting to know and see how technology shapes people’s learning….

I see teachers/speakers in front of pen/paper notetakers who never move from the front of the room, confident their listeners are taking notes (but are they?)

Yet when a laptop is open, the same teacher/speaker will ask for eyes front. Do they think the learner is goofing off just because the laptop is open? A shift of confidence in self is almost as necessary as a shift in tech-comfortability

I would like to know how much time is spent with “achievement media,” “learning media,” “creation media.” I would much rather see students spending 7-8 hours a day at school immersed in “learning media” and a lot less afterschool time with entertainment — though it’s cool with me if my kids listen to their iPods while doing their daily chores. That’s media multitasking in a positive light Hopefully another study will bring more detail to this portrait of teens’ media use.

The biggest challenge for me is not to make him technically proficient in these things, but to make sure he is able to synthesize and deal with the amount of information coming his way. To use another Shirky quote, it’s not ‘information overload’ it’s ‘filter failure’ that I want to prevent!