TechAccpetancePresentation

Customization of Computers

Early in the history of electronic digital computing, computers were large devices that filled rooms. During this phase of their evolution, the calculation to be performed by the computer was hard-wired into the circuits. Changing the calculation required technicians to physically reconfigure the circuits following the direction of the computer engineers. Lohr (2001) observed the Read More

TechAccpetancePresentation

How Education is Changing

With the arrival of digital electronic computers and the knowledge age late in the 20th century, the stability and predictability of necessary literacy and numeracy skills and knowledge evaporated. These technologies evolve much more rapidly than other information technologies, and this necessitates information skills to be updated constantly and for new skills to be learned Read More

TechAccpetancePresentation

Another View of Technology Acceptance

School and technology leaders spend great amounts of time trying to figure out what they should prioritize; this guides their decisions about where resources are used and which efforts receive attention. Despite their insistence that they are data-driven, many school leaders seem to ignore much that we know about how the phenomena they are trying Read More

TechAccpetancePresentation

Future of Work

In the 1992 book The Work of Nations, Robert Reich suggested the basic work skills necessary for future workers would include: abstraction which includes the ability to make meaning of complicated and unfamiliar situations system thinking which includes the ability to deconstruct the abstractions, and make logical predicts and develop rational strategies  experimentation which includes Read More

TechAccpetancePresentation

On Cooperation

In recent decades, there is rich evidence that cooperation rather than competition is a strategy associated with long-term survival of life.  Lynn Marguilis and Dorian Sagan point to evidence that mitochondria and chloroplasts (organelles found in multicellular organisms such and plants and animals) were originally independent organisms that formed cooperative relationships with other organisms to Read More

TechAccpetancePresentation

What Do We Know About Learning?

A colleague and I sat together to see if we could agree on a collection of statements about learning. This is what he and I beleive to be true about learning: Learning happens in the brains of individuals; Learning extends into the social and technological environments; Learning is a multi-dimensional process involving perception, recollection, analyzing, Read More