Teaching Interdependence
11:47 AM... was the title of the Keynote address I gave to 500+ educators at this year's B.Y.T.E. conference. The sense I had of the audience was that many of the ideas I talked about here were new to them. A quick survey of the room while giving the talk revealed only about three people had heard of Wolfram Alpha and I think about the same number had heard of the TPACK Framework.
I hope I get a chance to do this talk again. There are a number of things I think I could have done better.
Anyway, if you're interested, here it is in various formats. You pick how you'd like to take it in.
Audio
Download (20 MB)
Slidecast
Ustream Video (thanks to Chris Harbeck
4 comments
i completely agree with that "your message was one that technology needs not be the focus of instruction, but rather that humanity, compassion, social responsibility, and of course interdependence should be front and centre within the student-teacher relationship."
ReplyDeleteVery well said. I also agree with your thought as well.
ReplyDeleteJust stumbled over this lecture of yours - truly inspiring!
ReplyDeleteAn interesting address. I would agree that especially with the dawn of the 21stcentury a futurism styled fascination with education and the way in which people learn was viewed as an inevitability. In some ways, such a statement is plausible, however as your address makes clear, technology and devices that become innovative tools to supplement education are just that, supplemental tools. Attempting to replace the empathetic, human element of learning which is embodied in teachers with a more mechanistic process of heavy dependence on technology does not always reap positive results, in fact it can lead to disastrous consequences.
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